Despite a warmer than average winter, People’s Bar and Grill was the place to catch some of the coolest skiing and snowboarding captured on film this past season.

The Transworld Live tour pulled into People’s, 2428 Lincoln Way, for two presentations of its collection of the ski and snowboard industry’s top independent filmmakers.

Peoples owner Tom Zmolek was enthused to hold the event at his establishment.

“Warren Miller Films contacted me after trying to do the event on campus,” Zmolek said. “It didn’t work out logistically on campus – especially if it were in a classroom. This is a lot more relaxed atmosphere.”

The name Warren Miller has been synonymous with winter sports movies for more than 50 years. The tour’s projection engineer, Justin Tichy, said it was Miller’s pioneering that blazed the trail for today’s winter oriented cinematographers.

“Miller opened the door for the younger filmmakers like the guys at Matchstick Productions, Treetop Films and Kingpin,” Tichy said.

The tour will visit 45 colleges over five and a half weeks.

Initially the event at Peoples posed an age problem. Being held at People’s limited the viewing to only those over 21.

“The ski and snowboard club contacted me four days ago wanting to have an all-ages early show,” Zmolek said. He obliged and added another showing at 5 p.m.

Both shows weren’t just a viewing of “Transworld Live,” but also allowed patrons to enter their names in a drawing for DVDs, beanies, hats and a snowboard.

Attendance was a meager 30 for the early show, but that figure more than doubled for the late presentation.

“Our biggest show thus far has been 500 people in Oregon,” Tichy said. “The sponsors are happy. The more people that show up, the more [prizes] we’ll give out. Hopefully it’ll be bigger and better next year.”

As the beer flowed at the late show, the crowd got into the film a little bit more than the all-ages show.

“I just wanted to come see the independent snowboard videos,” said Ryan Watts, senior in management information systems. “It’s impossible to find any worth watching or looking at around here.”

Watts saw that and more, including what was the first snowmobile back flip caught on film. The fast-paced, diverse film never slowed down, and had a soundtrack just as varied as the footage with tunes from Adema, Cold and M”tley Cre.

Zmolek was happy to offer the event.

“We don’t get [stuff] like this everyday,” Zmolek said. “It’s something different.”