Here, Hold My Kid + Polar Star

Two professional skiers, two new mothers – Elyse Saugstad and Jackie Paaso – one sponsorship. A quirky documentary style film capturing the highs and lows of two women determined to succeed with side-splitting, hilarious moments. Saugstad and Paaso, who are seasoned big-mountain skiers and former Freeride World Tour competitors, embark on an exciting adventure. They take their one-year-old sons to three iconic ski destinations—Tahoe, Alaska, and Andermatt, Switzerland—with the goal of producing an award-worthy ski segment.

The film won Best Movie at the High Five Festival in Annecy, France, and is an official selection for IF3 in Whistler and Chamonix.

90 minutes

The night will also include Cody Townsend’s (Elyse’s husband) new Fifty Project movie, Polar Star, which was also  nominated as Best Film at the High Five Festival. Both Elyse and Cody will be at the screenings with someone holding their kid.

The Polar Star Couloir is a nearly perfect couloir set in one of the most remote, wild and inhospitable places on the planet; Baffin Island, Canada. Named as one of “The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America” by the book of the same name, the reason to travel thousands of miles through the arctic wilderness, camp for ten days on the surface of the frozen ocean and battle glacial winds, piercing cold temperatures and polar bears is obvious; checking it off the list as Cody Townsend attempts to climb and ski all of the classics in his documentary ski project called “The FIFTY”. The checklist though, that’s the smallest part of the journey as Townsend teams up with legendary steep skier Vivian Bruchez to partake in a master class of moving through the mountains, towering couloirs and tight walled steeps of Baffin Island.

44 minutes