Awards information and categories.
SKI CATEGORIES
For this year’s iF3 Movie Awards, any and all films about skiing, snowboarding or a mixture of the two are eligible.
AMATEUR
- Amateur Film of the Year
- Amateur Skier of the Year
ATHLETE
- Female Skier of the Year
- Male Skier of the Year
- Breakthrough Skier of the Year
PRO
- Best Short Movie (under 20min)
- Best Street Segment
- Best Backcountry Segment
- Best Storytelling
- Jury’s Pick (Dedicated to Kai Smart)
- Best Cinematography
- Best Editing
- Film of the Year
SNOWBOARD CATEGORIES
Whether it’s focused on freestyle, freeride, street, backcountry, telemark skiing, mountaineering, adventuring, a documentary subject, or anything in between, your film is welcome at iF3.
AMATEUR
- Amateur Film of the Year
- Amateur Snowboarder of the Year
ATHLETE
- Female Snowboarder of the Year
- Male Snowboarder of the Year
- Breakthrough Snowboarder of the Year
PRO
- Best Short Movie (under 20min)
- Best Street Segment
- Best Backcountry Segment
- Best Storytelling
- Jury’s Pick (Dedicated to Jeff Keenan)
- Best Cinematography
- Best Editing
- Film of the Year
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Official Selection 2026
* Note that every film in the official selection is eligible for the iF3 Movie Awards, but not all will be shown at an iF3 Festival event.
Amateur Category
- Serial Heelers - A Telemark Story
- El.makrell - Bucket Clips 5
- Lalo Rambaud / Tucker Carr - By Design
- First Tracks Productions - Dunes to Descents
- Owen Lloyd-Ellis - Expression
- Yann Rausis - Face it
- CHEF - For Nothing
- Dynastar - Stargazers
- Xander Guldman - Form
- Juli Schütter - F**k skiing
- Telluris & Sensus Production House - Homage
- Bushcraft Productions - Isobars
- Halbnah - LUMiNOUS
- John Padilla - Mountain in My Mind 4
- Jukebox Films - Proof of Life
- Patagonia Sur films - Resiliencia
- Hugo Pouseler Perron - Sales Gosses: Nouvelles traces
- Morgan Maassen Studios - Shakti
- Dylan Robinson - Shirokuro
- Harald Edlund - Soul Of Gulmarg
- Charles-Étienne Beaulieu - SpeakWhite
- Zach Mckee - Static
- Tchad Lemay - Stop
- Vernis Production - The Bird Story
- Frame 15 - The Hidden Lines
- Clemhaus.studio - Three Brothers
- Aslan Média - Tomahawk
- UNDERCUT production - UNDERCUT
- Us and Them - A Disabled Ski Film
- The Four Of Us - Viva Chile
- Ski For The Love - Way She Goes
Pro Category
- Troublehaus - 75 Seconds - A Story of Life, Death and the In Between
- Kraxtagg - A Derailed Human Dream
- Craig Murray - Alaska
- Carlo L. Mion -Après Baby
- Cody Cirillo - Alto
- NS Creative - Biscuits
- Blank Collective - Blank Patterns
- SideHit Films - North Of Somewhere
- OG agency - Dawn
- Decision Unanime - Unanimous Decision
- CK9 Studios - Etterklang
- Emil Leenderts - Ferryland
- Maximilien Michel - Fireborn
- Ben Haggar Photo - Formline
- Sideshow - Giddy Giddy/Girigiri
- Sam Kuch - Dwellers
- Autumn Works - Here, Hold My Kid : The Austrian Job
- Alenka Mali - What It takes
- Whistler Blackcomb - Home
- Gabe Langlois - BULLWHEEL
- Ubac Images - Ideal Adventure
- 25 IPS Studio - Kids
- Web-life - Kodo
- La Famille Films - La Source du Freeride
- Loris Poussin - Laisse-toi surprendre par tes propres rêves
- Redpoint Movie - LUMEN
- Magic Hour Media House - Making a Mindbender
- HEAD / Jeff Thomas Creative - Inside the Season
- Matchstick Productions - The Way Out
- Ngen - Guardian Spirits
- Northbound Productions - Velvet Blue
- Girls Into Freeride - Not A Chick Flick
- Gradient Global Productions Inc - Sphere of Influence
- Manon Loschi - Sorry I missed your call
- 25 IPS Studio - Nun Kun Boyz
- Sergey Firsov - Obsession
- Clustr Films - OTRO
- Fabien Maierhofer - Presque seuls dans les Alpes
- Mali Noyes - Rapid Fire
- Craig Murray - Rongo
- Loic Isliker - Solara
- Laurent De Martin - Reverie
- Hunt Cinema - Sooner or Later
- Troublehaus - Sound of Snow
- VVX Productions - Thank You For Playing
- Videograss - LIFEFORM
- The Faction Collective - The Alps (Working Title)
- Hunt Cinema - The Antidote
- ARTLINE-CO - The Illusion of Duality
- The Outliers - The Outliers 4
- Jeff Thomas Creative - The Way Of Snow (Yuki no Michi)
- Juice x John - TBD
- Factotum Cinema - Thrice Baked
- The North Face - TNF Freeride Film
- Antonin Rivet - Twin Lines
- Timm Schroeder - Uncle Timmy
- Mountain. Tribe - Vaddas
- The Road West Traveled - VIVID
- Legs Of Steel - We Can't Not
- Other Gaze Films - Where the air tastes like the sea
- Morgan Maassen Studios - Yin
- The Bunch - Patch
- Teton Gravity Research - Actually, it is Rocket Science
- Tom Yaps - Untitled Colby Stevenson Film Project
- TomBoy Media - Wayward
- Levack Films - Our Kind of Chaos
iF3 Movie Awards
2025 Nominees
SKI PRO
FILM OF THE YEAR
Blank Collective Films - Cold Calls
Head Freesking & Jeff Thomas Creative - Out of the Ordinary
Matchstick Productions - After The Snowfall (Winner)
Summit Lunch - The Edge of Reason
The North Face - Trango
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Chris Benchetler - Mountains of the Moon
Matchstick Productions - After The Snowfall
Simply. Recreation Club - Inefficient Joy (Winner)
The North Face - Trango
Ty Urlich - Visions From The North: A Portrait of Etienne Geoffroy-Gagnon
BEST EDITING
Blank Collective Films - One Step Ahead
Graeme Meiklejohn x Alex Armstrong - Slipstream
Head Freesking & Jeff Thomas Creative - Out of the Ordinary
Strictly Create - Seeing Flowers
The North Face - Trango (Winner)
STANDOUT FEMALE SKIER OF THE YEAR
Arianna Tricomi in Troublehaus - Talking Transition
Emma Patterson in Blank Collective Films - Cold Calls
Jess Hotter in Head Freesking & Jeff Thomas Creative - Elevate: The Head Freeskiing Women
Maggie Voisin in Teton Gravity Research - Pressure Drop
Manon Loschi in Bug Visionaries - Endorphin (Winner)
STANDOUT MALE SKIER OF THE YEAR
Craig Murray in Matchstick Productions - After The Snowfall (Winner)
Karl Fostvedt in Matchstick Productions - After The Snowfall
Mac Forehand in Jacques Price Productions - Duo
Parkin Costain in Teton Gravity Research - Pressure Drop
Phil Casabon in Armada Skis - Ornada
BREAKOUT SKIER OF THE YEAR
Ben Richards in Matchstick Productions - After The Snowfall
Daniel Bacher in Armada Skis - Ornada
Jonathan Rollins in Head Freesking & Jeff Thomas Creative - Out of the Ordinary (Winner)
Olivia Asselin in Armada Skis - Ornada
Teal Harle in Teton Gravity Research - Pressure Drop
JURY'S PICK (BOTH SKI & SNOWBOARD FILMS ARE ELIGIBLE)
Dasha Agafonova - Inferno
Joey Kraft x Jonathan Rollins - Process
Megafauna - The Realm
Strictly Create - Seeing Flowers
Arc'teryx - In Between Days (Winner)
BEST SHORT MOVIE (UNDER 20 MINUTES)
Blank Collective Films - One Step Ahead (Winner)
Entourage Productions - Too True
Graeme Meiklejohn x Alex Armstrong - Slipstream
Simply. Recreation Club - Inefficient Joy
Strictly Create - Seeing Flowers
BEST BACKCOUNTRY SEGMENT
Chris Benchetler - Mountains of the Moon: Chris Benchetler, Dennis Ranalter, Michelle Parker & Sam Kuch (Winner)
Matchstick Productions - After The Snowfall: Craig Murray, Dennis Ranalter, Logan Pehota & Mark Abma
Summit Lunch Productions - The Edge of Reason: Cody Townsend, Elyse Saugstad & Nikolai Schirmer
The North Face - Trango: Christina Lustenberger, Jim Morrison & Chantel Astorga
The Wester Experience - Return To The Why: Jacob Wester, Jakob Weger & Matthias Weger
BEST URBAN SEGMENT
Armada Skis - Ornada: Kuura Koivisto
Armada Skis - Ornada: Phil Casabon
Dasha Agafonova - Inferno: Dasha Agafonova
Éloïc Hamel & Jacob Monfils - Impetuous: Phil Langevin
Line Skis - Rendition: Tucker Fitzsimon (Winner)
BEST STORYTELLING
Blank Collective Films - One Step Ahead
Ellen Bradley - Let My People Go Skiing
Joey Kraft x Jonathan Rollins - Process
Krate - Queen of the Catskills
Summit Lunch Productions - The Edge of Reason (Winner)
SKI AMATEUR
AMATEUR FILM OF THE YEAR
Bungee Breakers - Tell Me I Belong
Chef - Third Party
El.Makrell - Bucket Clips 4
Éloïc Hamel & Jacob Monfils - Impetuous
OS Crew - Vortex (Winner)
AMATEUR SKIER OF THE YEAR
Andreya Zvonar in Calvin May - Evergreen (Winner)
Dillon Flinders in AnD Motion - RIFF
Floyd Guy in Chef - Third Party
Hannah Langes in El.Makrell - Bucket Clips 4
Kyle Johnston in OS Crew - Vortex
SNOWBOARD PRO
FILM OF THE YEAR
Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved (Winner)
Finlay Woods - The Sound of Japan
Red Point Movie - Into Altai
Arc'teryx - Between Days
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved
Finlay Woods - The Sound of Japan
Red Point Movie - Into Altai
Arc'teryx - Between Days (Winner)
BEST EDITING
Alex Heitler & Victor De Le Rue - In Cold Blood
Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved
Finlay Woods - The Sound of Japan (Winner)
Arc'teryx - Between Days
STANDOUT FEMALE SNOWBOARDER OF THE YEAR
Anna Gasser in Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved
Iris Pham in Nitro Snowboards - Spike
Tiphanie Perrotin in The Ridge Films - Instinct
Ylfa Rúnarsdóttir in Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved (Winner)
STANDOUT MALE SNOWBOARDER OF THE YEAR
Ben Ferguson in Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved (Winner)
Brin Alexander in Megafauna - The Realm
Danny Davis in Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved
Darcy Sharpe in Megafauna - The Realm
BREAKOUT SNOWBOARDER OF THE YEAR
Cass Jones in Teton Gravity Research - Pressure Drop (Winner)
Emil Leenderts in Emil Leenderts - Caught The Bug
Jack McDougall in Megafauna Films - The Realm
Mia Jones in Teton Gravity Research - Pressure Drop
Nick Puenter in Nitro Snowboards - Spike
BEST SHORT MOVIE (UNDER 20 MINUTES)
Emil Leenderts - Caught The Bug
Finlay Woods - The Sound of Japan
The Ridge Films - Instinct
Arc'teryx - Between Days (Winner)
BEST BACKCOUNTRY SEGMENT
Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Megafauna - The Realm: Brin Alexander (Winner)
Megafauna - The Realm: Darcy Sharpe
Emil Leenderts - Caught The Bug: Emil Leenderts
BEST URBAN SEGMENT
Buster Crew - Buster 2: Denver Orr
Nitro Snowboards - Spike: Dominik Wagner
Nitro Snowboards - Spike: Iris Pham
Sidehit Films - No Big Deal: Seb Toots (Winner)
BEST STORYTELLING
Alex Heitler & Victor De Le Rue - In Cold Blood
Burton x Red Bull Media House - Paved
Emil Leenderts - Caught The Bug
Jones Snowboards - In the Shadow of the Diable
Red Point Movie - Into Altai (Winner)
SNOWBOARD AMATEUR
AMATEUR FILM OF THE YEAR
Cumulus Nimbus - Sky Above Sky Below
Legit Films - First Day of Winter
Patagonia Sur Films - Patagonia Sur
Paul Veron - Low TV: When Style Meets Sustainability (Winner)
RAD Movie Production - Whip It Up
AMATEUR SNOWBOARDER OF THE YEAR
Federico Romano in Patagonia Sur Films - Patagonia Sur (Winner)
Paul Veron in Paul Veron - Low TV: When Style Meets Sustainability
Shawna Paoli in Celina Weber - The Underdogs