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We're on a mission to find the best untold stories in the ski and snowboard industry.
We poured through applications to select six final teams to create a seven-minute film during Winter '25. Teams have 12 weeks to film and 12 weeks to edit their final film.
Come Fall 2025, we'll take the five films on the road to each hometown and beyond for our annual TREW To You Film Tour.
During the Film Tour, we will open up community voting and will have a special prize for the People's Choice Award at the end of the tour.
One team + their film will be chosen as the Grand Prize Winner selected by a panel of professional filmmakers, athletes, and industry legends - including Max Lowe, Katie Burrell, Colter Hinchliffe and more! - and will get $15,000 to create & produce their dream film with TREW in Winter 2026.
There will be a universal theme this season that will serve as a central tenant for each of the edits and the film as a whole. The theme is ‘SWITCH’.
Switch embodies transformation, adaptability, and evolution. Whether it's switching perspectives, switching up traditional cinematography, or something different altogether, it’s all on the table and up for interpretation by the storyteller. We are excited to see how each team brings this idea to life.
If your question isn't covered below, reach out to our Community Manager Jess at jess@trewgear.com
Applications for the 3rd season of TREW To You are now closed.
We ask all teams to submit an in-depth application, which will include your proposal for the film you would like to make, who you would like to have on your team, and additional information about your respective team experience in riding, filming, and editing.
Teams can consist of between 2-5 individuals, including riders and filmers. It could be 1x rider and 1x filmer, or 2x riders and 3x filmers. If you have a story that you think deserves to be told and snow that deserves to be ridden, we’d love to hear from you.
After receiving all of the submissions during the application process, the TREW team will sort through every application and handpick the 5X teams that we feel will best bring “STAY TREW” to life based on a variety of criteria, including but not limited to:
We are not necessarily looking for teams to tell us how they Stay TREW; instead, we hope that teams will get creative with their proposals + films and show us what Stay TREW means to them.
Absolutely not! This is open to any and all snow sport enthusiasts of any level. If you have an incredible story and a plan for how to tell it, shoot us what you have in mind in your application!
Unfortunately, this contest is only open to those residing in North America at this time. Sorry!
Most definitely! We are looking for a wide range of riders, conditions, geographies, people, and stories. More weight is placed on storytelling versus snow quality.
Nope! Ride your backyard, summit Mt Hood, hit some rails downtown, rip pow turns in the upper bowls, or cruise the local mountain. Your world is our oyster. Show us that you can tell your story in an engaging way and we are all for it, regardless of where or how you do it.
All teams - and individuals within a team - are mandated to wear TREW outerwear in their film.
We are permitting teams to leverage support for this initiative from their other sponsors with one main exception:
If you have another sponsor or brand you would like to work with - be it a ski/snowboard, beer, goggle, boot, helmet brand - have at it. Just let us know what you’re thinking in your application, and we can give you the green light*.
*Involvement from external brands and the placement of their logos/marks within a given team’s edit pending approval from TREW.
Sure! We’re all ears and would love to hear the ideas you have churning in your brain - but we strongly suggest not going for the quantity over quality approach, as we are looking for well-thought out project pitches.
Each team selected will receive…
We’re not here to mandate how you use the money, but in our mind, startup cash could go towards things like additional camera equipment, paying filmers, gas, lift tickets, etc.
NOPE. One of the aspects that makes this project so interesting is the element of a finite filming / editing timeframe.
All footage must come from the filming window*.
*If a team would like to use archival footage for storytelling purposes, they must submit a request to the TREW team for approval.
No way! Everyone’s process + snow situation is different. If you get nuked on day one and stack enough clips to create your story, good on ya; on the flip side, if you need all of the time, that works too!
Any audio used in final edits will need to be 100% licensable. Whether it’s an original track or snippets, it must be commercially licensed for use.
The grand prize on the line is $15,000, but we will also be offering up some additional prizes from TREW To You sponsors; we will have more information about these prizes come January 2025.
The five final films will be judged by our panel of snow industry + cinematic professionals on the following criteria:
Riding
Storytelling
Creativity
Overall execution
And finally, a portion of the final judgement will be based on community voting. So you will want to rally your communities and stoke the flames to gain votes during our TREW To You Film Tour during Fall 2025.
The team that wins the grand prize will be able to use the $15,000 to create their dream feature-length film with TREW during the ‘25/26 season.
OFFICIAL RULES
No purchase necessary to enter or claim a prize. A purchase or payment will not increase an entrant’s chances of winning.
Open only to legal residents of Canada and the United States who are at least 18 years of age in their home province/state at the time of entry.
TREW To You, Presented by TREW Gear (the “Contest”) is sponsored by TREW Gear of 1145 SE 2nd Ave #202, Portland, OR 97214 (the “Sponsor”). There is (1) First Prize to be awarded – whichever team is selected as the winner by the judging panel.
CONTEST PERIOD: The filming period of the content begins on February 1st, 2025 at 12:01 AM Pacific Standard Time (“PST”) (the “Contest Period”). The Sponsor’s computer will be the official clock of the Contest. The filming period will conclude on March 31, 2025. The editing period will begin on April 1st, 2025, concluding on May 15, 2025.
UPLOAD AND PUBLIC VOTING DATES: Entrants must submit their 7-minute final edit, along with all raw clips captured throughout the filming period, to TREW Gear no later than 11:59 PM PST on May 15, 2025.
ELIGIBILITY: This Contest is offered only to legal residents of Canada and the United States who are over the age of 18 years in their home province / state at the time of entry. The Sponsors and their parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates, advertising agencies, distributors, dealerships and other companies/consultants involved in the design, production, execution, distribution, implementation and execution of the Contest, including TREW Gear, are collectively referred to herein as the Contest entities (the “Contest Entities”). Employees of the Contest Entities and each of their respective immediate family members (i.e. spouses, parents and step-parents, children and step-children, siblings and step-siblings) and persons living in the same household of each are not eligible to participate in the Contest. The Contest is subject to all federal, provincial, state, and municipal laws, and is void where prohibited or restricted by law. By participating in this Contest, an individual who meets the eligibility requirements and enters the Contest (each individually, an “Entrant” and collectively, the “Entrants”) agrees to be bound by these official rules (the “Official Rules”) and all decisions of the Sponsor, and agrees that the decisions of the Sponsor and the Sponsor’s agents shall be final and binding in all matters pertaining to the Contest. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
CONTENT RIGHTS: By participating in and submitting to the TREW To You community film contest, you are authorizing TREW Gear to use and feature the complete edit and any and all raw clips provided on trewgear.com, TREW TV (YouTube), and TREW social channels in perpetuity. The complete video will remain intact with full credit to the athlete(s) and the filmer(s). In addition, the footage can be edited and used by TREW for highlight reels and promotional materials related to this contest and future TREW video contests. TREW has the right to re-track the edit with different music if songs submitted are unlicensed.
In addition to each team’s final film, teams will submit all raw footage collected during the filming process to TREW for use in promotional materials.
The athlete(s) and/or filmer(s) will maintain full rights and copyright to all footage submitted. TREW will have no copyright or ownership of footage, just licensed rights as listed above.
