The Story
Pick Your Line is a feature documentary about resilience, belonging, and chasing joy. After filmmaker Maria Petros is rescued by a complete stranger following a snowboarding accident, she sets out to make a film about the community that showed up for her. But as she asks her fellow “snowmies” one simple question—Why do you ride?—she realizes she has never truly answered it herself.
Her search takes her back through a childhood shaped by hair loss, an alopecia diagnosis at sixteen, and a devastating mental health crisis that changed the course of her life. Along the way, Maria begins to see a connection between the person she became to survive those experiences and the person she is now learning to be—someone willing to let others in, accept help, and find strength in connection.
Snowboarding didn’t save Maria, but it gave her the freedom to be an athlete again without worrying about her appearance, becoming a place where she feels most at peace. Through intimate verité, breathtaking mountain landscapes, and deeply personal archival footage, Pick Your Line explores how community, vulnerability, and shared passion can help us stop hiding, learn to let others in, and discover that the most meaningful lines we choose are the ones that lead us home.
Production
Funding the second phase of production, including remaining interviews, mountain filming, and essential vérité sequences needed to complete the film's narrative and emotional arc.
Every contribution helps bring Maria's story to the screen and spark meaningful conversations about mental health, identity, and belonging. Pick Your Line is fiscally sponsored through From the Heart Productions making all donations tax deductible.
Our Fundraising Goals
If a traditional donation method is your preference, you can mail physical checks as well.
Make checks out to our Fiscal Sponsor:
From the Heart Productions, Inc.
(on the memo line, please include the name of the film, Pick Your Line)
Mail to:
From the Heart Productions, Inc.
1013 Harbor Blvd #53
Oxnard, CA 93035
Post-Production
Providing the resources necessary to complete post-production, including editing, sound design, color correction, music licensing, archival finishing, graphics, and final delivery, ensuring the film reaches audiences with the highest creative and technical quality.
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