‘Less Hollywood more Ghettowood’: Wasted Youth The Movie premiere at the Regent

The Revelstoke snowboard community’s Sober October ends Oct. 10 at the premiere of Wasted Youth: The Movie at the Regent Inn.

Revelstoke snowboard crew Wasted Youth debut their much anticipated first video at a charity fundraiser Saturday night that’s going to be a party environment.

According to premiere sponsor Karl Jost of Society Snow & Skate, the 25-minute feature actually comes a few years early.

We caught up with Karl Jost (l) and Chris Curran ahead of the Saturday night premiere of Wasted Youth: The Movie. Photo: Aaron Orlando/Revelstoke Mountaineer

“We were trying to release it with the Malakwa Olympics 2018, but that fell through,” Jost joked, while hanging around the shop with featured rider Chris Curran.

They both jokingly predicted a low-key event:

“A couple of quiet ones,” Jost predicted.

“A couple of mellow ones,” agreed Curran.

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The reality will be a packed bar for the much-anticipated debut of their video, which features riding from the past two-plus years.

The film features Sean Barrett, Taylor Roberts, Jess Kimura, Keith Martin, Chris Curran, Anthony Miller, Dozer and Seb Grondin. It was edited together by Sean Barrett and Nick Khattar.

“It’s the crew having fun, doing what we do,” Curran said of the film

Expect lots of local and regional sled-accessed snowboarding featuring big-mountain backcountry riding in deep Revelstoke snow conditions, the pair said. There’s no big theme, no special parts, no story or big concept, just footage of snowboarding in the mountains around Revelstoke by a crew with strong local connections.

“Trying to get back to the old school core snowboarding feel. Less Hollywood more Ghettowood,” Jost explained.

The crew concept is prevalent in snowboarding, skateboarding and other youth cultures; an in-joke snowballs into something more. Wasted Youth started in 2008 as a crew of snowboarders determined to take full advantage of the deep Revelstoke snow while they had the chance — during their youth.

“People say we wasted our youth doing what we love, but it’s not a waste, that’s the idea,” Curran said. “It’s a group of friends as well.”

“It’s a crew having the same passion for snowboarding,” Jost said.

WASTED YOUTH THE MOVIE The Teaser from WASTED YOUTH on Vimeo.

In their video teasers, social media and Wasted Youth has never been shy about their emphasis on the apres-boarding party scene, and the piles of PBR cans left in their wake.

Wasted Youth hats, stickers and T-shirts soon started showing up at Society Snow & Skate, and nowadays a walk through downtown Revelstoke usually turns up at least one person with a Wasted Youth hat or T-shirt.

Wasted Youth and Society Snow and skate are heavily intertwined, and have a big part in putting on Revelstoke’s snowboard season ender-bender at the S-Games competition at RMR.

The lifestyle brand continues to develop and is making inroads outside Revelstoke, Jost said.

The film is dedicated to Mark Dickson, who died in a dirt biking accident in July of 2014.

The premiere poster. Photo: Wasted Youth

The Wasted Youth premiere is at the Regent Inn on Saturday, Oct. 10, with the movie starting at 10:30ish. The night also features music by Marty Beats and Boggs.

Admission is by donation at the door, with all funds going towards the planned Revelstoke skatepark in Kovach Park.

A portion of funds from Pabst Blue Ribbon sales will be donated to a fund to support the family of Daniel Levesque.

“Any money we can raise to help,” Jost said.