TW Sponsors Premier Action Sports Film Festival

Oceanside, CA – January 13, 2009 – TransWorld Media, a division of Bonnier Corporation, is proud to announce that it has partnered with the X-Dance Film Festival to honor the finest films in adventure and action sports. The world-class event has established itself as the premier festival for action sports movies, attracting the best filmmakers, athletes, and icons in action sports culture. The five-day event runs concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival (January 16-20) in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival brings together cutting-edge bands, top DJS, entertainment executives, action sport industry bigwigs to honor the heroes from each sport and the filmmakers who tell their stories. X-Dance includes public
screenings of top action sports films from industry leaders like Matchstick, VAS, Teton Gravity Research, Quiksilver, Red Bull, Altnerna Films, Poor Boyz, Oakley, TransWorld, and Billygoat Productions, as well as noteworthy work by emerging talent and world premieres.

TransWorld Media X-Dance event information is as follows:
Friday, January 16th. 8:25 PM - Screening of TransWorld SKATEboarding’s “And Now”. Following is a 15 minute Q&A
session with director/producers Jon Holland and Chris Ray. OFF BROADWAY THEATER, 272 S. Main St. Salt Lake City, UT
84101

Friday, January 16th 10 PM - Opening Night Party presented by TransWorld. BROADWAY BISTRO- next to
Off Broadway Theatre. 280 S. Main St, Salt Lake City. Starting shortly after screening of And Now.

Sunday, January 18th, 4:00 PM - Film Discussion Panel at the Off Broadway Theatre. TransWorld panelists include TransWorld SNOWboarding’s Director of Video and Photography, Nick Hamilton, and TransWorld SURF’s, Editor in Chief, Chris Cote, and Bonnier Corporation’s VP of Media, Michael Starobin.

Tuesday, January 20th 7:00 PM - Awards Ceremony. TransWorld SURF Editor in Chief Chris Cote scheduled to MC.

For more details please visit x-dance.com.

About TransWorld Media
TransWorld Media is the world’s leading action sports media brand and publisher of action sports publications and Web sites in terms of advertising, audience, and brand recognition. Based in San Diego, California, TransWorld properties reach a
combined monthly audience of more than 5 million teens, one of the most  challenging audiences to reach through traditional media. The division’s magazines – all leading publications in their categories – include TransWorld SKATEboarding, TransWorld SURF, TransWorld SNOWboarding, Ride BMX, TransWorld Motocross, and QUAD Off-Road Magazine. These six consumer
titles, as well as the monthly trade magazine TransWorld Business, are the print foundation of a multi-media platform including action sports films, leading events, and the amalgamated TransWorld Web sites, the largest action sports community online.

TransWorld is a division of the Bonnier Corporation. Bonnier Corporation is one of the largest consumer-publishing groups in America and the leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences through more than 40 special-interest magazines and related multimedia projects and events.