This is Canoeing - BEST CANOEING FILM
Duration: 5-35 min [Festival Version 7:40 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2010
A long overdue celebration of canoeing, showcasing some of the single blade's most talented paddlers, exploring wilderness and running challenging whitewater. Stunning, high definition footage and charming stories from multiple award-winning filmmaker Justine Curgenven.
Director and Producer: Justine Curgenven
Website: www.cackletv.com
Paddle to Seattle: Journey Through the Inside Passage - BEST SEA KAYAKING FILM
Duration: 85 min [Festival Version 40 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2010
In homemade wooden boats, J.J. Kelly and Josh Thomas travelled the 1,300-mile Inside Passage. For three months, Kelly and Thomas paddled to Seattle facing the hardships that accompany a lifestyle removed from civilization. The film is a stunning display of the awe-inspiring landscape of the Pacific Northwest and of the light-hearted spirit of the young adventurers.
Director: Josh Thomas
Producer: J.J. Kelly and Ben Gottfried
Website: www.paddletoseattle.com
Kayak Fishing: Game On 2 - BEST KAYAK FISHING FILM
Duration: 5 min
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2010
This film follows world-renowned big game kayak angler Jim Sammons on the adventure of a lifetime. Features Sammons' epic, three-hour battle with a 120-pound tuna.
Director: Ken Whiting
Producer: Will Richardson
Website: www.helipress.com
Facing East - BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PADDLING FILM
Duration: 20 min [Festival Version 19:40 min]
Year Produced: 2007-2009
Year Released: 2009
The ability of China's rivers to sustain the communities that depend on them has never been in more danger than now. China is now home to the largest hydroelectric project on earth. Vital Films presents the story of the Yangtze River before it is transformed into reservoirs. Come on a journey with a group of kayakers and explorers as they make the final descent of the Yangtze River.
Director: Matt Hobbs & Cael Jones
Producer: Matt Hobbs
Website: www.vital-films.com
Into Perpetual Ice - BEST WHITEWATER FILM
Duration: 21 min
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Five kayakers visit Greenland to explore the whitewater kayaking possibilities of this remote island. After a tough time making it to the rivers they are rewarded with excellent kayaking and a remarkable adventure.
Director: Jared Meehan & Olaf Obsomer
Producer: Jared Meehan
Falling - BEST SHORT FILM
Duration: 5 min [Festival Version 4:30 min]
Year Produced: 2006
Year Released: 2007
This short film is both a thrill ride and a poetic meditation about harmonizing with the awesome forces of nature. Legendary kayakers Hayden Glatte and Lars Holbeck are featured running the waterfalls of Agua Azul in Chiapas, Mexico.
Director and Producer: John Armstrong
Finding Farley - BEST ADVENTURE/TRAVEL PADDLING FILM
Duration: 62 min [Festival Version 46:07 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
When filmmakers Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison (Being Caribou), along with their two-year-old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat they do so literally. Their 5,000-kilometre trip - trekking, sailing, portaging and paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes - ends at Mowat's Nova Scotian summer house.
Director: Leanne Allison
Producer: Tracey Frieser
The Call of the River - BEST DOCUMENTARY PADDLING FILM
Duration: 75 min [Festival Version 19:50 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Whitewater's history has as many twists and turns as the canyons its pioneers explored. From bribing dam-keepers to release water, to World Champions defecting from Communist regimes and utilizing military by-products for equipment. Curiosity, ingenuity and outright audacity thrived as paddlers probed the boundaries of the river experience.
Director and Producer: Kent Ford
