The backcountry segment of Return to Earth was made possible by the efforts of local legend, Cepi Raffa. An Argentinian doctor who has dedicated his life to building a vibrant mountain bike community in his hometown of Bariloche.

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Big Red Tempany used to create the craziest stunts that could be ridden on a bike, including Anthill’s movies. But his biggest accomplishment is a single trail that anyone can ride, which has helped transform his hometown into a mountain bike mecca.

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While shooting for Return to Earth, Anthill learned mountain biking’s origin story goes beyond the famous Clunkers of Mount Tam and can trace roots back to the high alpine single-track trails of Crested Butte, CO. There, in the late 70's, locals like Don Cook laid the groundwork for much of the sport that we take for granted today.

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Moose Reichert knows first-hand the power of bikes to change lives. As a youth, he did time for attempted murder. Now on the islands of Hawaii, he is turning attention from the ocean to the mountains by building trails, including the breathtaking conclusion for Return to Earth.

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Sterling Lorence’s photography has inspired riders all over the world to travel into the woods on two wheels. His unrelenting search for the perfect mountain bike shot continues with the Anthill crew on the set of Return to Earth.

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10 pros, one shot. The making of Anthill Films’ final scene from Return to Earth

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One of the most colourful spots in North America during the autumn months is in the low, rolling mountain ranges surrounding Bromont, Quebec. For Return to Earth’s Fall Colours segment, the Anthill team (along with athletes Thomas Vanderham and Ryan Howard) chose this location for its trails as well as its vibrancy. We caught up with Thomas to chat about the experience of filming in Bromont, the opportunities he’s had as a professional mountain biker and how he chooses to spend his most precious resource - his time.

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One of the ways a mountain biker can freely express themselves is to draw their own lines on the landscape, much like the stroke of a paintbrush on canvas. When Brett Rheeder recently travelled to Bigwater, Utah for the Creativity segment of Return to Earth, he brought his own artistic interpretation to the terrain.

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One of the best things about being a kid is the ability to live in the moment without the burden of responsibility. Tomorrow’s to-do list is of no concern unless it involves having fun. It was that notion that led to Anthill Films creating an entire segment for Return to Earth around a group of care-free youth in the Whistler Bike Park.

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Ask almost any mountain biker what they enjoy the most about the sport and they'll likely give you the same answer: riding with friends. The short-of-breath chats on the climbs, the hoots and hollers of a joyous descent, cracking a beer and toasting to a good ride while kicking back on the tailgate. These are the moments that define us as mountain bikers, when we enjoy the connection to each other as well as the environment around us. They're also the moments we sought to capture in the Community segment of Return to Earth.

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In our busy, scheduled lives there seems to be less and less time for the simple things. Things like sitting around a fire and sharing food, drink and stories.

Gathering nine of the world’s most talented mountain bikers from a variety of disciplines (plus 13 crew members) in an off-the-grid location, free from worldly distractions, will have everyone returning home with their own memories and stories to tell for years.

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The riders and Anthill Films crew sets their sights on a custom built trail designed for the world’s fastest riders. Steve Smith loses control and suffers a dangerous wipeout.

For the last scene of the unReal project the team will bring every riders worst fear to life and have Tom VanSteenbergen chased by seven foot tall five hundred pound grizzly bear.

To capture the flow of a single trail the UnReal production team will build a slopestyle to downhill course for two-time World Freeride Champion, Brandon Semenuk and attempt to shoot the entire line in one shot.

For the first shoot of unReal film project, the team at TGR and Anthill head to the Turtle Ranch where they will ride a ridge with a herd of thirty horses.

The production crew at TGR and Anthill have turned their sights to a 70 foot gap jump built for Tom VanSteebergen to go as big as he has ever gone on his bike.

The unReal production team sets out to bring a blizzard of dirt to the Whistler Bike Park bringing the wintertime dream of fresh tracks to the summertime trails.

Brett Rheeder and the Anthill Films crew take on B.C. Canada's Coast Gravity Park in the middle of the night during the shooting for the unReal mountain bike film.

The team heads to the Pemberton Icecap in British Columbia to put the rubber to the ice and see if they can ride their bikes on the glacier.

See how the Anthill Films crew weave their $20,000 drone mounted camera through a forest of trees to get the shot.

When TGR and Anthill set out to create the most original mountain bike film ever, they had to reach into their huge bag of camera tricks. The latest technology and the tried and true techniques of the past combined for a one of a kind trip through The unReal World.

Episode one of this eight part series takes us to Turtle Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming with Trek athletes Brett Rheeder, Tom van Steenbergen, and Cam McCaul. The concept behind this shoot was fairly simple: ride mountain bikes with horses. The execution on the other hand proved to be a bit more complex. When you’re rolling with a 15-person crew, helicopters, skid-steers, and a pack of galloping horses, things take on a momentum of their own.

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On June 25th, 2014, while shooting with Anthill Films and Teton Gravity Research, Tom van Steenbergen landed the biggest front flip in mountain bike history... but it almost didn’t happen.

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Glaciers, crevasses and... mountain bikes? Ep. 3 of Mind the Gap: The Making of unReal takes us to an unlikely destination... The Pemberton Ice Cap in B.C.'s backcountry. Cam McCaul, James Doerfling, and Graham Agassiz put their bike handling skills to the test as they battle the elements in an unfamiliar territory.

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Ep. 4 of Mind the Gap: The Making of unReal takes us into British Columbia's dusty interior with World Cup downhill racers Stevie Smith and Brook Macdonald. For years, Stevie has dreamed of riding a wide-open track where he could drift into corners at full speed. For Brook and Stevie, this one-of-a-kind track is what mountain bike dreams are made of.

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Episode five of Mind the Gap takes us to the Coast Gravity Park on BC's Sunshine Coast with Brett Rheeder. For this segment, the crew goes nocturnal and works through the night to film Rheeder under the lights. Lack of sleep and visibility proved to be challenging, but with some perseverance, the obstacles were overcome.

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With only nine days to go until the World Premiere of unReal, things around the Anthill Films and TGR headquarters are getting pretty crazy. The crew is working around the clock to make sure that the final film is... well... unReal! We can't wait to show the world what we've been working on, but until then, enjoy this little bit of behind the scenes action of getting the last shots for the film. If you want to see more, you're just going to have to make it out to a premiere! The countdown is on.

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On June 18th, 2015, Teton Gravity Research and Anthill Films unveiled their long-awaited mountain bike film, unReal, to 1600 people in Vancouver, BC. Since then, the film has premiered in over 55 cities and is set to premiere in dozens more over the summer.

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This episode is about one of the most acclaimed segments from unReal, Brandon Semenuk’s “One Shot” segment. It’s the first full segment in a mountain bike film shot in a single, continuous shot. The beautiful simplicity of the segment hides the extraordinary amount of work and coordination it took from the entire team to create. In this episode of Mind the Gap, we go behind the scenes in Cambria, California to show you how the crew pulled off this cinematic achievement.

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The trails of the Whistler Bike Park have seen their fair share of screen time over the years, from segments in our past films to your next-door-neighbour's POV edit. So, when it came time to filming the bike park segment for unReal, we knew we had to do something different. Many people have asked us how we made this segment: Was the dirt real? Did we use a green screen? Does this actually happen in Whistler? Well, in the final episode of Mind the Gap, we reveal how the Dirt Blizzard segment came to life.

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Dale has two passions. Flying and taking people fishing. He gets to do both as he flies adventure-hungry fishermen to secret fishing spots in the Chilcotin wilderness of BC, Canada.

For Whistler local Sarah Frood, great powder and good friends is where it’s at. We got the chance to shred some pow with Sarah at Baldface Lodge in Nelson, BC.

Paul Morrison has two loves: action sports photography and his son, pro mountain biker, Ian. This is what happens when Father and son bring their skills together in Whistler, BC, the land that has inspired and shaped them both. Although Ian’s chosen career path isn’t what most people would consider conventional, Paul could not be more proud that his son is pursuing his dreams.

Success = happiness. What makes you happy? For latest Telus #PlayWithTheBest winner Ric Moxon, it’s all about “waking up to do what you love everyday.” That means kayaking B.C.’s epic whitewater with mission buddy Maxi. How does that saying go again? Oh yeah–if you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life. We think Ric has that pretty figured out.