Where did you start and where did the trip end?
MM: We traveled for a bit more than three weeks, and we stopped in four different cities. We left Helsinki by train and we got to Beijing with stops in Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and a small village named Listvyanka. We slept in the train for the rest of the time and the train trip would take seven days in a row without ever stopping.

Andrea Schilirò: Usually the Trans-Siberian is between Moscow and Vladivostok, but we did it all the way from Helsinki to Beijing. It's not touristy, and we didn't meet another foreigner along the way.

Where did the memorable riding sessions go down?
MM: Every place was special in its own way. The most legit rail session was probably the first rail we did hit in Ekaterinburg: a beautiful kink rail on a smoking river, perfect light, perfect mood and sick tricks. It was maybe just a bit too cold.

AS: We hit so many different places, but [one of the best] was in a wood house with no roof in the middle of nowhere. It was somewhere out on the Baikal Lake a few hours away from Irkutsk -- which is already a place far from everything. The guys were [jibbing] and jumping from the windows.

How was your project received by the people along the way?
MM: People were surprisingly friendly and welcoming. Everybody we met did everything they could to help us with our project, we had just a few scary moments with people.

It looks like "Siberia Teaches" is a lot more than a standard snowboard film. Is that what you were going for?
MM: It was the best experience of my life, it really opened up my mind and I realize as a filmmaker what I really like to do. Filming snowboard movies is getting a bit boring [because] there are too many around and it feels impossible to do something really different. The documentary in Siberia was my way to do things with our own style. Traveling with the idea of making a documentary pushes you to make things happening, meeting people and knowing more about the places that you visit, not as a tourist but as a local.

Where can people in the U.S. check out your film? Any plans for a release over here?
MM: A Finnish distribution firm called Rabbit Films is taking care of selling the rights of the documentary all over the globe. We will know more about countries and releasing dates in the next months. If you want to know more about it we will keep you updated on www.facebook.com/siberiateaches. I hope some channel in the U.S. will get the documentary, I think you guys will laugh about our English but you guys will like the story and the cut of it.