NEXUS Is the Ski Film We’ve All Been Waiting For

The term “boundary-breaking” gets thrown around a lot in the ski industry. In practice, it can mean a bunch of different things, whether it’s an athlete pushing a new trick, a crew exploring a new zone, or something entirely different and altogether paradigm-shifting – like what the team behind 2022’s NEXUS has done. NEXUS is the culmination of years of effort by an all-female crew of cinematographers, photographers, producers, directors, and athletes to create the film they’ve always wanted to see. Filmed in just about every iconic North American location possible from the Tetons to the Cascades, to the Chugach, NEXUS follows the stories of a handful of female athletes including everything from big-name film stars to ladies splitting professional careers with a love for the mountains, to lifelong skiers who have never skied for the camera. It’s about the skiing as much as it is about everything else – lessons learned, mentorship, and sharing that love we all have for sliding around in that magical medium of powder snow.

Michelle Parker and Brooklyn Bell scope lines in Alaska. | Shannon Corsi photo.

The storylines follow the 40-year-long friendship shared between Teton locals Jane and Margo who have been skiing our local peaks since the 80s, the big-mountain mentorship that Michelle Parker provides for Brooklyn Bell in Alaska, the camaraderie and competition between Jackson’s Veronica Paulsen and Caite Zeliff, the reality of balancing a healthcare career and the mountains with Lucy Sackbauer and Ingrid Stensvaag, and the work that pro skiers and daughters of Vietnamese refugees Sasha Dingle and Krystin Norman do to share their love for skiing with other women and underrepresented athletes. The film follows some truly impressive big-mountain skiing, but it also dives deep into what makes skiing so damn fun – the jokes, the fake mustaches, funny clothes, and seeing your friend slay a big line or stomp a big cliff that they were questioning. There’s also the powerful moment when Michelle Parker (who has been skiing in AK for 19 years) realized she rode in a helicopter of only women. What's it all about? Shifting the paradigm of what ski movies are about. The NEXUS crew crushes it, and we're excited to see what's to come. After all, "one is not enough."

Each story was captured by an overwhelmingly female production and post-production team including director and executive producer Shannon Corsi, director of photography, producer and lead editor Sophie Danison, and producer and photographer Katie Lozancich.

The film has been traveling with Arc’teryx’s North American film tour this fall, and will be released digitally this winter. Find more information at nxusfilm.com.