Woodsrider

“WOODSRIDER is a quiet documentary and we chose to only use music very sparingly,” described Landa. “We had the challenge of making music for a film that features snowboarding but feels nothing like an ‘extreme sports’ movie. It’s about growing up, persistence and self discovery.” Tucked in the trees of Oregon’s Mount Hood, an introspective 19-year old snowboarder named Sadie Ford operates within the poetic persona of a searching pioneer as she camps alone, anticipating a winter of adventure and self-renewal in this hybrid form documentary. Striking a youthful yet elegiac tone, WOODSRIDER is a meditative film about identity, home, and the way that human experience echoes that of the natural world.
“The track ‘Whiteout’ was written especially for the trailer,” Landa continued. “I asked Anna [Bulbrook] to collaborate and to distill the movie’s essence into a song. The lyrics encapsulate Sadie’s personal journey and her relationship with snowboarding, and we wanted to reflect the quiet and solitude of the film with a simple arrangement for guitar and vocals.”