The biggest ski celebration of the year went off in Montreal last week, and who better to bring us the recap then our favorite Canadian skiers over at Newschoolers.

Words by Jeff Schmuck
Photos by Audric Gagnon, Will Gignac, Simon Lebrun & Renaud Robert

Now that the madness has subsided on both the biggest ski party of the year along with a tireless amount of hard work and late nights in the Newschoolers office launching our new video and photo sections during the Festival, the time has come for our first of two in-depth and extensive updates on everything that went down this past weekend in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the fifth annual Nike 6.0 International Freeski Film Festival.

First up, a look at the movies, and boy oh boy was there a lot of them. Over the course of the four days of the Festival, a whopping 26 films and 13 webisodes were unearthed to over a thousand die-hard skiers who made the annual pilgrimage from all over the world to the beautiful and party-hardy city of Montreal for IF3.

The biggest and best ski film festival in the world kicked off its celebrated fifth anniversary on Thursday with an autograph signing at Oberson (a super cool shop in Montreal who was one of the main sponsors of this year's IF3), where a large contingent of the best freeskiers in the world congregated to put down their signatures on posters, clothing and laptops and smiles on many a kids' faces. Following the signing, the premieres officially began with the third annual North Face Outdoor Screening, where in stark contrast to last year's torrential downpour, clear skies were as abundant as the high fives being traded amongst friends, who in some cases hadn't seen each other since the chairlifts stopped turning in the spring.

Missed the biggest party in skiing? Don't sweat. Head over to Newschoolers to check out all the mayhem and the rest of the recap HERE.