About the film maker

Adventure is the spice of life

"My vocational path was forged the day I picked up a super-8 camera as a teenager back in 1975. Shooting reels of surfing on Sydney's Northern beaches, I was inspired by the adventurous lifestyles depicted in the surf and ski movies of the day. So began a journey via the Snowy Mountains of Australia to the Alpine village of Verbier, Switzerland where one winter season extended to 20 years. Based there I travelled the mountain ranges of the world shooting adventure sports films."

I found myself on the cutting edge of the alpine zeitgeist with my films documenting ski bum life and the emergence of the new sports of snowboarding, paragliding, mountain biking and flowriding.

(ph) Rob Reichenfeld

Trevor Avedissian

Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor

Mark Shapiro

Production Stills Photographer

Eveyen J Klean

Music Director

XYZ is a resume of those films shot during the last two decades of the 20th century and explores the air-volution, that is the aerial evolution, of sporting prowess and exploit in the realm of glisse sports including skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, telemarking, mountain biking, surfing, skateboarding and flowriding.