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Isabella Tvede-Jensen

Denmark | Active: 2021-present public record | Known for: Bungee Break, Sushi Buffet, Frozen Babiez | Discipline: street skiing, creative park and film projects



Helsinki’s Thin Snow Window



Helsinki, Finland, 2023. Warm weather had narrowed the usable snow around the city’s urban features when Isabella Tvede-Jensen, Ellen Damsgaard and Maya Casier began filming Sushi Buffet. Skis, rails and rough landings replaced the comfort of a shaped park; each usable approach had to be built from what the streets and the weather allowed. That mission gives Tvede-Jensen’s profile its clearest starting point. Her public work has grown through street sessions, crew films and visual projects rather than a conventional World Cup route.

The 2023 film was made by Tvede-Jensen and featured the three Danish skiers in the streets of Helsinki. It followed an earlier Danish street-film chapter, then led into a 2024 season that brought her to Dew Tour Streetstyle, Level 1 SuperUnknown 21 and another all-women film project. The pattern is consistent: travel with a small crew, work on rails and city features, then turn the sessions into a complete piece rather than isolated social clips.



Bungee Break and a Danish Street Winter



Bungee Break arrived in 2021, made by Mathias Skaarup and Jakob Ebskamp. Riders.dk described it as Denmark’s first street-ski film in ten years, a meaningful detail in a country where natural snow windows can be brief and urban skiing often depends on timing. Tvede-Jensen appeared alongside Ebskamp, Joachim Clausen Hansen, Simon Storgaard, Rune Bach, Simeon Sørensen, Jakob Ahlers and Skaarup. The title reflects a practical street-ski solution: a bungee can create the speed needed for a feature when the terrain has no long in-run.

That project established the context for her later work. The goal was not to imitate a large North American street production. It was to use a rare Danish snowfall, known local spots and a crew already accustomed to rails. The same article noted the value of year-round practice at CopenHill, where short synthetic-slope laps can sharpen switch approaches, rail balance and takeoff control between winter trips. For Tvede-Jensen, Danish urban skiing has been a foundation rather than a limitation.



Sushi Buffet Made the Crew Visible



Sushi Buffet moved the story to Finland in 2023. Downdays identified Tvede-Jensen as the film’s maker, with Damsgaard and Casier starring beside her, while Skaarup handled colour and graphics. The project was supported by Wavos, LINE Skis and 100%. More importantly, it documented three Danish skiers travelling to a city with a deep street-ski identity and using its compact architecture, weather and snow cover as part of the film’s texture.

Street skiing asks for a different kind of preparation than a park contest. A crew must assess approach speed, rail height, landing depth, foot traffic, filming angles and the possibility that a thaw will erase the setup. The ski work is technical: switch entries, 50-50 balance, frontside and backside rotations, presses, rail exits and controlled landings on irregular snow. Sushi Buffet treats those mechanics as part of a shared trip, which is why its crew chemistry matters as much as any individual trick.



From a Danish SuperUnknown Semifinal to Mammoth



Tvede-Jensen’s contest record has been selective, but it is not absent. In 2021, Riders.dk reported that she reached the semifinal stage of Level 1 SuperUnknown after submitting a 90-second edit. The same interview listed Danish championship medals across freestyle ski and snowboard, including four golds, two silvers and two bronzes. Those domestic results add a competitive layer to a profile otherwise defined by filming, though they should not be inflated into a FIS or Olympic résumé.

Three years later, she was named a women’s finalist for SuperUnknown 21 at Mammoth Mountain. The 2024 final brought selected riders to Mammoth Unbound for six days of skiing and filming on a private park build. Isabella joined Liv Cull, Naomi Urness, Evelyn Mullie, Shiori Takahashi and Josephine Howell in the women’s finalist list. SuperUnknown’s format rewards a broader reading of skiing than one scored run: line choice, style, personality and how a rider uses the features through the week all matter.



Copper’s Streetstyle Score



At Dew Tour 2024 in Copper Mountain, Tvede-Jensen entered the women’s streetstyle field and scored 62.00. Newschoolers’ recap placed her in a heat with Eileen Gu, Taylor Lundquist and Rylie Warnick, a contest setting that put an independent street-film skier beside riders with stronger event résumés. She did not advance, but the appearance is still useful context. It shows that her rail skiing can operate in a judged course where every feature, speed check and landing is visible immediately.

The Dew Tour format did not replace the film work; it clarified the connection between the two. A street edit allows a crew to return to a feature until the clip feels right. A contest gives a skier limited attempts and a fixed line. Both situations rely on edge precision, body position over the rail, timing on a 270 out, and the discipline to keep a run from unravelling after one missed movement. Tvede-Jensen’s 2024 record sits at that intersection rather than in a single category.



Frozen Babiez and the Work Behind the Credits



Frozen Babiez, released in December 2024, made the creative side of her role more visible. Tvede-Jensen co-made the all-women street-ski film with Damsgaard and Casier, then edited the project. The cast included Hannah Langes, Alice Michel, Nivi Sachse and the three makers. Additional filming came from Skaarup, Ebskamp and Rene Gammelby, while Damsgaard contributed animations. This is a detailed production credit, not simply a guest appearance in another skier’s segment.

The project was supported by Eivy, One Open Sky and Wavos. Those are confirmed project credits and should not be read as a permanent personal sponsor roster. The film’s selection in the 2024 iF3 Festival guide reinforced its place as a documented release. It also gave the crew a platform where riders, filming and editing were all led by women within the same project.



A Voice on the Edges of Freeskiing



In March 2024, Tvede-Jensen published A Love Letter To Freeskiing through Newschoolers. The piece addressed the structures that can leave women outside the established contest pathway, particularly skiers whose work sits between street filming, crew projects and formal competition. The essay matters because it explains the setting around her own work without turning films such as Sushi Buffet or Frozen Babiez into a marketing claim.

Her public record instead shows a practical response: make the trip, assemble the crew, build the film, edit the material and release it. That model is visible in every verified project since 2021. It also connects her to a wider European street-ski network where city sessions, small productions, dry-slope practice and event invitations all contribute to a skier’s progression.



Where the Record Leads



Tvede-Jensen’s strongest documented sequence is precise: Bungee Break in 2021, Sushi Buffet in Helsinki in 2023, Dew Tour Streetstyle and SuperUnknown 21 in 2024, then Frozen Babiez later that year. Her work combines urban rail skiing with production responsibilities that many event results do not show. The public evidence supports a creative street-skier profile with credible contest appearances, not an invented international medal narrative.

The factual endpoint remains the projects themselves. Her name appears as skier, filmmaker, editor and writer across Danish and European freeski media, with Mammoth and Copper adding North American event experience to that film-based foundation. Any future page update should follow confirmed releases, event entries or credits rather than assumptions about her next season.

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