Cody Townsend Shares Exclusive Details About Upcoming Season Of 'The Fifty Project'
By Ian Greenwood on POWDER.com — Cody Townsend fans, you're in luck -- more The Fifty Project content is on the way.
Yesterday, August 28th, Townsend teased what we can expect from The Fifty this upcoming season.
Typically, episodes of The Fifty are 20-30 minute YouTube videos covering Townsend's journey towards skiing all of the lines featured in the classic book The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America.
Powder reached out to Townsend to get to the bottom of this somewhat vague Instagram post. He graciously shared exclusive details that have not been released elsewhere. (Thanks, Cody!)
Townsend confirmed that there will be four total "episodes" for this season of The Fifty. Two episodes will fit the regular 20-30 minute format, and two will be feature length films with run times around 55 minutes.
Townsend shared the titles of the episodes, and the star-studded list of athletes joining him:
-'Comstock' featuring Mali Noyes and Greg Hill (regular length)
-'Bloody' featuring Josh Daiek, JT Holmes, Elyse Saugstad, Michelle Parker, Drew Peterson, Greg Lindsey, Ming Poon, Forrest Shearer (regular length)
-'Split' featuring Nick Russell (feature length)
- 'The Polar Star' featuring Vivian Bruchez (feature length)
All four projects were filmed by everybody's favorite cameraman- Bjarne Salén.
Release dates are TBD, but are slated for "around October".
'The Polar Star' will screen at the High Five Festival in Annecy, France at the end of September, and at IF3 in October before releasing online.
Cody Townsend looks over the dramatic landscape of Baffin Island in 'The Polar
Bjarne Salén/The Fifty Project
In equally exciting news, the editing team behind these upcoming videos is stacked, including Scott Gaffney, Lou Currie, and Team Thirteen.
Yup, that Scott Gaffney.
Last fall, Gaffney announced that he was leaving his filmmaking and director role at Matchstick Productions -- a legendary ski movie studio -- to expand the breadth of projects he could participate in.
It seems working with Townsend was one of his new post-MSP gigs.
Stay tuned to Powder; we'll have you covered as more news about The Fifty emerges.
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