Brighton local crew “This Must Be The Place” move to finals of Nike Chosen event

Unless you have totally been under a rock this season you have seen the Nike Chosen competition. The contest, presented by Nike, challenges filmers and crews from around the world to document their scene, get “noticed”, and eventually win a trip to Austria to shred like a Nike pro. Brighton Resort is lucky enough to be the home mountain for one of the crews chosen as finalists. Connor Brown and Jesse Gouveia are the guys behind the “This Must Be The Place” crew. Through out the season we have featured edits, pictures, and trick tips from the crew here on the terrain park blog but now it’s at a whole new level. The crew needs your help to get them into the final three to win a trip to Austria to compete for the grand prize. I caught up with Jesse to get the low down on whats taken place so far, what still needs to be done, and to talk about the crew and riding at Brighton Resort.

Brighton Ok Jesse give us the quick version of how you guys got to this round and how the contest proceeds from here…

Jesse So the contest was all about Facebook likes and comments and such before to get Nike to “notice” you and look at your page. Now that we got the US spot and made top 9 its straight up votes. From today until March 5th everyone who knows how to use the internet can vote for us once a day on each computer or phone or whatever. Maybe a PC if youre feeling risky.

Brighton So in talking with you guys I know you are working on a variety of projects at once. How was it trying to fit the Nike edit into the mix and how has it been just filming in general in a brand new place?

Jesse At first it was all kinda weird because we knew we wanted to make a movie, and knew we wanted to save our best stuff for that. So we got kinda stressed about how we were going to make the Nike stuff good while saving the best shots for Connor’s movie. Being able to put park footage and Bonezone stuff in there obviously made things easier earlier in the round but we wanted our main video on our page to be mostly street. Its ended up working out pretty well so far because we were able to come up with some b footage and some stuff we filmed just for the Nike as well. Its a lot to put together, especially for Connor editing it all but there is definitely nothing we would rather be doing. Its been super fun because we are all so new to filming in the streets so we’ve learned a lot and have all gotten to get better at it together. As far as the snow goes we’ve just had to film in surrounding towns where they have some snow like Park City and stuff or had a couple chances to film in the valley when we got those 3 inch storms. Its been kinda rough I guess but way better that we’re used to. Last year I lived in a city that pretty much never got snow and I went on one three day film trip so getting this many chances to film feels crazy to me. I think we’ve gotten better at making things run smoothly at spots since the beginning of the year. Not quite as many rookie mistakes as before. Still sketched out sometimes…

Brighton So tell me about Connor’s roll and your roll in the crew. Who’s doin what…

Jesse So connor used to snowboard, but that doesnt happen any more haha. I can confidently say he is a filmer now. Before I was like no way, he’ll bounce back and wanna go snowboarding every day but no. He loves filming, seems like he has the same amount of fun and gets the same appreciation for filming as we do boarding. He films. We board. I give him some creative gestures here and there for titles or ideas for edits here and there but “The Con,” “Conman69,” or “Contraceptive,” you take your pick, is definitely a filmer now.

Brighton Ok that covers you two but whose the entire crew…

Jesse Our crew is Connor Brown, Jesse Gouveia, Andrew Aldridge and Blaze Kotsenburg.

Brighton So how has your first season at Brighton been so far?

Jesse Brighton is just the jam becuase it has the best park and the terrain is sick. First time I’ve ridden a mountain with so much stuff to charge of off and so many sick snake runs. Cant really enjoy it all right now cuz of the lack of snow. I still barely know the mountain but the taste I’ve gotten so far has been amazing. Everyone who I love to ride with rides there (except Jordan Morse.. PC?? whatttt, whyyyyy) and the way they run things there is on point. In other words you dont feel like youre going to get your pass taken away for ollieing a slow sign, and the people who run things there do a good job. Nothing against skiers but Brighton is mostly people who snowboard so its so awesome to rip with all your boarder buds. There’s so many good people there that sometimes it makes you feel like you suck, so definitely helps you wanna get better. Its just a good place to snowboard I’d say.

So heres What Connor, Jesse and the crew need you to do. Hit up the Nike banner below and vote for “This Must Be The Place” every day from now until March 5th. HINT you can vote once a day from your phone as well as a laptop and PC/Mac for a total of up to three votes per day. The top three crews will be flown to Austria where the winner of the Grand Prize will be chosen. So show some Brighton love and hit that link then spread the word to all your homies. Brighton represent and dont forget to VOTE EVERYDAY!!!

P.S. Did you catch that Jesse said they were saving their best stuff for their full length film.. stunning