Without giant mountains and consistent snowfall on our shores, the UK has always been fighting an uphill battle getting its riders into the biggest international movies. A little adversity never stopped us though, did it, and what British snowboarding has lacked in resources it has always made up for in passion, blagging skills and a good sense of humour.

Nowhere has this attitude played out more strongly than in the various UK movies which have graced our TV screens over the past fifteen years. Day Tripper, in 1995, saw a crew of our finest riders convince somebody, somewhere to fund a trip across America in a converted yellow school bus. It even scored national distribution and was on sale in Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus FFS! Subsequent films were a little less mainstream but just as gratefully received by the hungry hardcore, such as the Eldridge brother’s The Invasion, The Sequel and Play, and Ian Sansom’s Fuel 1 & 2.

For most people, however, UK snowboard films are synonymous with Lockdown Productions, the company founded by Tamworth duo Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle. Together they blended hilarious skits with solid action from a who’s who of British riding to carve a niche for themselves and unite a scene (literally, in the case of their annual arm-waving music video from the British Champs).

When Terminal Ferocity brought the curtain down on LDP, it was left to Damian Doyle to fly the flag. Doyle, a legend of the Sheffield/Halifax/Castleford scene, duly delivered the goods in his own gritty style with three homages to the dryslope fraternity, Standing Sideways, This IS Britain and the Broken Thumbs Tour, as well as the first (and best) Hunger pain film.

Since Tom ‘Mack Dog’ Elliot’s Bread & Butter was given away with WL in 2008, however, there’s been a sad lack of local shred flicks. That was until Grindhouse turned up with a couple of heavy films over the past few years – most recently Mind Games.