ESPN to Air “Fire On The Mountain” on Wednesday, Oct 28

ESPN will air the movie “Fire On The Mountain” by Chris Benchetler, with the addition of scarce at the rear of the scenes footage, on Wednesday, Oct 28 at 8 p.m. ET. Narrated by Hall of Fame basketball player and ESPN sportscaster Invoice Walton, with new music supervision by David Lemieux, audiovisual archivist and legacy manager for the Grateful Dead. The short film features some of action sports’ most famous athletes: snowboarding’s Jeremy Jones, Danny Davis, Kimmy Fasani, surfing icon Rob Machado, and skiers Michelle Parker and Chris Benchetler. Captured more than the class of the winter by cinematographer Tyler Hamlet of Flagship Unbiased. Created and Directed by Benchetler and Hamlet, this visual journey features by no means prior to witnessed footage in mother nature, orchestrated by tunes of the Grateful Lifeless. That includes initial artwork by Benchetler and Skye Walker.

The film’s title is taken from the Grateful Lifeless track “Fire On The Mountain,” off the band’s album “Shakedown Street,” introduced in November 1978. Mickey Hart and Robert Hunter collaborated to create the tune, which was 1st executed dwell at Winterland on March 18, 1977. The movie also opens with a new unique composition by the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain termed, “In The Commencing There Was Fire”.

“Fire On The Mountain” will also air on ABC on November 22 at 4 p.m. ET. Trailer: https://little bit.ly/2Ja0bco

Walton claimed: “Recently, although shadow boxing the apocalypse, and wandering the land, I arrived on the development of the entire world, and the delivery of hearth. I quickly spiraled round and spherical, and was promptly sucked into the vortex of Fireplace On The Mountain —The Movie. It has become a harmonic convergence of the best get, bringing alongside one another the greatest of the greatest of the best—of every little thing, with as good a team of younger, dynamic, action-figure tremendous-heroes, as there is in the recognised universe. Like me, they really like the edge, mother nature, the groove, rhythm, activity, and the lifestyle and rhythmic beat of the Grateful Lifeless. The new young fellas asked me to discuss. I channeled everybody and every little thing I have recognized in my now 53 several years with the Grateful Useless. Mickey Hart, there from the starting, led a responsive demand to my get in touch with to action. The outcome is Hearth On The Mountain—The Movie, as great a task and workforce, pushed by glorious goal and song, as I’ve ever been a aspect of.”

Improvisation is the silver thread that weaves this film collectively. Just as the Grateful Lifeless did not fit their tunes into an proven category, this quick film finds a solid of some of the world’s very best athletes on an improvisational journey of skiing, snowboarding, surfing, and tunes, entire with a soundtrack comprised of only Grateful Useless tunes. Shot during a snow and surf street journey, the journey begins in California wherever the athletes embark on a mission into the mountains. Mid-film finds the cast caught in the remote waters of the North Pole, followed by a psychedelic dreamscape appearing as skeletons shredding below the moonlight at Mammoth Mountain, and browsing in Indonesia. Equivalent to a Grateful Useless demonstrate, they start out and finish in the very same put, but each and every of their respective experiences is a journey of their have.

“This is a undertaking of individuals, areas, and conditions all woven with each other, getting momentum and adapting as Mother Nature orchestrates her plans—going with the snow, pursuing the swell,” explained filmmaker Chris Benchetler. “The Grateful Dead’s improvisational design lends by itself to that exact same stream. Letting a second in time and house acquire around, collectively sharing that expertise, while the songs blazes its system. This venture has been about the appreciation for Earth, self-discovery, open up-mindedness, and the improvisational jam of existence. We’re so thrilled for it to be airing on the household of sporting activities, ESPN.”

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