Ski area featured in short film, pop-up showing Friday at CC’s

The public is invited to help celebrate this Friday, Nov. 22, at CC’s Pizza in Greybull for a showing of the short film “Mountains Not For Profit.” The 32-minute movie will show at both 6:15 and 7:15 pm. 

Antelope Butte general manager John DeVivo said, “We’re buying the pizzas between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. and we’ll raffle off some SWAG in between showings, as well.”

Created by the creative teams of The Indy Pass and the renowned filmmakers at Teton Gravity Research, the short documentary features the stories of four impactful, nonprofit mountains that have bucked the trend of aggressive consolidation and are reclaiming the soul of skiing. 

Filmmakers say these four mountains, Shames Mountain in Terrace, BC, Whaleback Mountain in Enfield, NH, Black Mountain of Maine in Rumford, ME, and Antelope Butte in Shell, are the fabric of vibrant outdoor communities that come together to keep the mountains they love alive through volunteer time, donations, and, most notably through enjoying the trails and riding the terrain - inspired by their love for skiing.

“Our segments are sprinkled throughout, and then we have an AB-specific segment of at least 5-7 minutes,” said DeVivo. “Locals from Shell and Greybull have appearances in the film — Jeff Grant, Aysa McMillan, Cole Bolzer, and Lisa Kunkel.”

The trailer for the movie has received nearly 160,000 hits on YouTube and will be officially released on YouTube on Nov. 26. “The ski and snowboard lifestyle is enjoyed by (roughly) five percent of the US population, but a far greater number frequents YouTube, and everybody loves an underdog,” he said. 

“I think AB benefits by having a national spotlight shone on nonprofit ski areas in general... and not only the monumental struggles we face to continue to survive and thrive, but the incomparable sense of community and “home base” that we (and areas like ours) enjoy. We talk a lot about the three great alternatives that we offer people when it comes to winter activity, and those are the financial alternative, the geographic alternative, and most importantly, the cultural alternative. We will never be a major ski resort... and those that are can never recapture the sense of culture that we have, and they can never be us,” said DeVivo.