The following post was taken from www.AllianceWake.com. For more pictures check out their link.

On Tuesday night January 26th The Parks Documentary received the award for “Best Biography” and was nominated for “Best Editing” and “Best Film” at the X-Dance film festival in Salt Lake City. As you should know, X-Dance is an annual film festival for all movies created in and around action and outdoor sports. This accolade from the action sports film community is huge recognition for wakeboarding and particularly for Parks and Alliance Visual Experiences.

Most people involved in the wakeboarding and wakeskating microcosm are aware of how good the Parks Documentary is. Here at Alliance we all believed that the story of Parks Bonifay was bigger than just our community and that it would appeal to a broader market helping to tie us closer to other action sports and help our sports and industry grow. Arguably the Parks Documentary will help to introduce the sport to more people through the incredible life story of one of our most charismatic athletes. This award from X-Dance will put the Parks Documentary on the fast track to even more recognition.

A few of the other standout films to show at X-Dance were Project X , Mt Saint Elias, Modern Collective, The Drifter and Signatures. Go to www.x-dance.com for the entire lineup of the 35 films that were accepted (there were over 140 entries) to the festival.

Special thanks to Dave Patterson for being awesome.

Utah Water Sports took a break from X-Dance to put on a show at their pro shop last Saturday.  A bunch of the new Mastercraft boats were being showed off in their showroom while contestants rocked to their hearts content.

Spectators could check out the new boats and chat with Billy McKee about the new Mastercrafts and the great deals they had in the pre-boat show sale.

Winners of the Rock Band contest walked away with some great winnings, which included a Wake Surfboard, an Obrien Natural Wake Board and bindings and a Slingshot wake board and bindings.

Check out some of the pictures of the event!

 

If you missed the Been There Done That screening there is still PLENTY of X-Dance left to see.  So make sure to free up some time so you can come see some great action sports films.  The X-Dance Film Festival is a good chance to see some action sport films in HD.  So be sure to get down to the OBT this weekend, just like Rev3 did.

 

Start the X-Dance weekend off with Utah’s own ‘Been There Done That,’  the only all wake film in this years festival.  Be sure to look for the WakeUtah crew as we plan on hanging out at the festival all weekend.

‘Been There Done That’ a Short Film By Jake Larsen & Nate Balli; Featuring: Blake Simkins, Jake Lowder, Jenacee Jackson, Marc Glover, And Friends. The community has voted and decided that this short film deserves a spot at the X-Dance Film Festival. Thanks for eveyone’s participation and for all the support from our sponsors. Stay tuned for more information about when this film will screen at X-Dance etc.