Blue Bird Motion Picture GmbH and Ascot Elite Entertainment are producing a lavish sports documentary for the big screen. Genre specialist and director Gerald Salmina, who reached a large audience ten years ago with “Streif – One Hell of a Ride”, is directing and producing a current film about the supreme discipline of skiing with his proven team. Its title: “Downhill Skiers – Ain’t No Mountain Steep Enough”.

The filming period spans one season in the Ski World Cup up to the 48th Alpine World Ski Championships in 2025. The project is being realized in collaboration with the Austrian Film Institute, Red Bull Media House, ORF, Servus TV, CH Media and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. In Austria, the film is being distributed by Panda Film, in Switzerland by Ascot Elite Entertainment.

The aim of the film is to take the viewer on an emotional journey through an entire season in the supreme discipline of skiing. “Downhill Skiers – Ain’t No Mountain Steep Enough” wants to find out what drives today’s best downhill skiers and how they manage to constantly push the limits in an extremely risky sport. Director’s statement: “I don’t want to document the best skiers and their successes in our film, but rather extraordinary people who try to achieve their goals with impressive mental strength and passion, regardless of all the painful side effects resulting from hard falls.

If viewers leave the theater at the end with a smile on their faces and are convinced that it’s worth fighting for goals and living dreams intensely, then the film has the right message and my team and I can be satisfied.”