A Skier's Journey Returns for a Final Season

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Recovered from a life-threatening brain injury, artist Jordan Manley creates three final films with skiers Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots in Iran and China, culminating in a special homecoming to British Columbia 

A Skier's Journey, the globally-acclaimed short film series is returning for its fourth and final season this fall. Directed by the celebrated Canadian filmmaker and photographer Jordan Manley, the final three episodes represent Jordan's artistic effort to follow Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots to Iran and China, and culminates with a significant return home to British Columbia. Launched in 2010, the final three episodes complement three previous seasons that have followed the team from Kashmir, to Dubai, to Argentina and Iceland - focusing not on the glamour of big-mountain skiing, but on the human experience and culture of each special location.

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The final series is especially poignant for director Jordan Manley. In 2014, before embarking on a final season of A Skier's Journey, Jordan crashed while mountain biking. Nothing spectacular, but with a concussion serious enough to put the season on hold. Ten months later, his recovery well underway, Jordan was trying on ski boots. He stood up, knocked his head on a shelf and -the setback was worse than the original injury. By far. Twenty-nine years old, at the peak of his efforts to date and the most he was able to manage was a slow, brief, daily walk. A Skier's Journey was indefinitely on hold.

This year marks Jordan's full return from his long and deliberate rehabilitation. Much has been written and documented about how he recovered; watch the videos of his daily walk therapy. It was his process of learning to really look at things close by. Nothing imaginary, cerebral, or huge. Almost like seeing the largeness in everything small, a process that lead to his reexamination of home, literally and metaphorically.

Picking up where he left off with A Skier's Journey project, Jordan set out to film the final three episodes: Iran, China and British Columbia's Coast Mountains. Was he up for it? "Don't get me wrong, I love being out in the mountains, but my relationship to risk is very different." In terms of fitness, not surprising. But the skiing, the joy of being on skis? A simple fall could jeopardize everything.