Coming off a huge win with Brown Cinema’s Knights of the Brown Table, we bring you Screwdriver featuring Nik Baden, Gabe Ferguson, Parker Szumowski, Sam Taxwood, Mason Lemery, and Curtis Ciszek. The crew left the brown table with a screwdriver in hand, and what followed was a global effort that takes you from the streets of Japan to the hidden faces of Idaho. Ian Boll and Jonah Elston lead the cinematic charge and captured everything along the way, and who else to piece it all together than Brown Cinema's Brock Nielsen. This footage represents a passion project for the ages, and has a little bit of something for everyone. Whatever terrain you like, these guys hit it—and you know they didn’t half ass a thing.
We think snowboarding is something you should do when you want, how you want. This crew embodies that ethos, and luckily, these guys want to snowboard most of the time.
Filmed by: Ian Boll and Jonah Elston
Additional Filming by: Malachi Gerard, Colt Morgan, Matt Norris, Brendon Hupp, Parker Szumowski, Nik Baden, Sammy Rowse, Harry Hagan, Aaron Leyland, Colton Feldman, Willis Kimbel, Gabe Langois, Connor Winton, Evan Lavallee, Brock Nielsen
Filmed on Location in: Idaho, Japan, Whistler, Colorado, California, Washington, and Wyoming
Edited by: Brock Nielsen
Supported by: Rockstar, K2 Snowboarding, Skullcandy, Fat Tire, Ride Snowboards, Vans Snow, DC Shoes, Autumn Headwear, Blackstrap, Crab Grab, Nitro Snowboards, Smartwool
Photography by: Ian Boll
"After working towards a singular project for the last two years, Brown Cinema, we were a bit unsure of what to do next. We had chatted throughout the summer, but none of us really cared much until December when we realized, oh shit it’s winter now. That idea in short was, snowboard together, go wherever sounded fun, and make a video showing what we do. There was no thought of trying to make some best-part-ever shit; it was purely go shred and figure it out as we go.
This group cares about snowboarding more than most things in our lives. We live and breathe this. That’s why it’s important to us that we snowboard the way we want to. We generally aren’t worried about checking a box—or putting ourselves in one—by only riding one way. If you’re living your life to appease other people, then you’re doing yourself a disservice.
As Waylon Jennings once said, explaining outlaw country music: “We were rebels, but we didn’t want to dismantle the system. We just wanted our own patch.”
They didn’t care what the public opinion was, and that attitude helped them define a new space in country music. While others in our industry are walking lightly to keep people happy, we feel it’s important to step with some weight.
Snowboarding is meant to be an expression of personal feeling and freedom. And that’s exactly how we’d like to keep it. The following photographs are from this past winter, filming for Screwdriver, a movie that embodies that attitude, in our own patch."
- Nik Baden
