Note: The film lengths listed here are for the full films. During the World Tour you are likely to see a shorter festival version.
2011 World Tour - Shortlisted Films
Awakening the Skeena
Duration: 80 min
Year Produced: 2010
Year Released: 2010
At the intersection of three of the last wild rivers of North America, a battle is underway. Proposals from coal bed methane projects threaten this fragile ecosystem and a way of life. Local resident Ali Howard embarks on a 26-day swim down the 610-kilometer length of the Skeena River in this inspiring story of one person’s efforts to stand for the river and its future.
Director: Andrew Eddy • Producers: Andre Eddy, Mike Frisley, Chad Oakes • Website: www.doublehaulproductions.com
Back to the Arctic
Duration: 18 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
In the summer of 2009, six young men made a 1,000-kilometer canoe journey down the Black River in Nunavut. Frozen lakes, fantastic whitewater, wildlife and gorgeous scenery highlight the 45-day journey.
Director and Producer: Peter Marshall
Better Than You Imagined
Duration: 15 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Five 2 Nine Productions and Bottoms Up Kayaking assault the senses with an onslaught of kayak pornography from around the world. This no nonsense film takes you from Ecuador to New Zealand, from Quebec to Thailand. Also featured are some of the world’s most notable paddlers.
Director and Producer: Mike McKay, Five 2 Nine Productions Website: www.five2nine.ca
The Big River
Duration: 14 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
The Mackenzie River in Canada’s Northwest Territories carves a 1,730-kilometer-long journey to the Arctic Ocean through Precambrian Shield, the Rocky Mountains and arctic tundra. In July 2010, Robin Bourke and Adam Woogh gave themselves three weeks to paddle this artery from Fort Providence to the Arctic Ocean.
Director: Robin Bourke Producers: Robin Bourke and Amos Scott
The Book of Legends
Duration: 26 min
Year Produced: 2010
Year Released: 2010
In 1975, Russian explorer Igor Bazilevski and his team of 10 men attempted the first descent of the Bashkaus River in Siberia. Tragically, Bazilevski and half of his team drowned. In 2010, an international team of whitewater kayakers travelled to Siberia in search of Bazilevski’s illusive goal.
Director and Producer: Jared Meehan
Currents Petawawa
Duration: 8 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
CURRENTS Petawawa examines the efforts of a whitewater community taking action to protect a river from a proposed hydroelectric scheme. Paddlers seek to build a positive atmosphere and local support for the river with the Hell or High Water Festival.
Director and Producer: Mike McKay, Five 2 Nine Productions Website: www.five2nine.ca
Dream Result
Duration: 45 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
This film includes footage of the world record waterfall descent of 186-foot Palouse Falls, expeditions into the wilderness of northern Quebec and a quest for waterfalls throughout Chile and Scandinavia. Driven by passion, nine of the sport’s top athletes and lifelong friends spend a year chasing their Dream Result.
Director and Producer: Rush Sturges and Tyler Bradt Website: www.river-roots.com
Exploring Idaho
Duration: 27 min
Year Produced: 2009 • Year Released: 2009
Explore Idaho’s finest whitewater in this action-packed film featuring an in depth look at untouched rivers and creeks. Exploring Idaho features a run down the powerful North Fork of the Payette River and first descents of Clover Creek and Solder Creek.
Director and Producer: Mike Copeland
Website: www.stoneandwaterproductions.com
Fine Woodstrip Canoe Building
Duration: 126 min
Year Produced: 2010
Year Released: 2010Stuck in New York City for the winter with some time on his hands, actor and woodworker Nick Offerman decided to build his own canoe. This visual guide provides valuable instruction for those wishing to create their own masterpiece.
Director: Joan Barrett • Producer: Joan Barrett and Jimmy Di Resta • Website: www.bearmountainboats.com
Halo Effect
Duration: 47 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2011
Three of the world’s best kayakers take a journey to the Scandinavian paddling Meccas of Iceland and Norway. While they search inside the Arctic Circle for rapids and waterfalls that have never been run, they’re also searching for the elusive moments when the stars align and everything goes perfectly. But sometimes, in the blink of an eye…things go horribly wrong.
Director: Steve Fisher • Producer: Fish Munga
Website: www.fishmunga.com
International Whitewater Hall of Fame 2010
Duration: 15 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
The International Whitewater Hall of Fame (IWHOF) recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to whitewater related activities. The film presents 2010 inductees: explorer Mike Abbott, pioneer Theo Bock, champion Michal Martikan and advocates Helen Brownlee and Risa Shimoda.
Director and Producer: Kent Ford
Website: www.iwhof.org
Islands of Fire
Duration: 30 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Justine Curgenven joins local Italian paddlers on a tour of the warm turquoise waters in Sicily´s Aeolian Islands. Explore rugged coastline and crossing between islands with dolphins and turtles. This charming film offers an insight into the Italian way of life, with good food and good humour.
Director/producer: Cackle TV
website: www.cackletv.com
Kayak Fishing the Chesapeake Bay
Duration: 87 min
Year Produced: 2009 • Year Released: 2010
Kayak Kevin and crew spend a year angling from their kayaks at world class fishery, Chesapeake Bay.
Director and Producer: Kevin Whitley
Website: www.kayakkevin.com
Kayak Kevin’s Chesapeake Bay Tour
Duration: 80 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Kayak Kevin Whitley explores the Chesapeake Bay.
Director and Producer: Kevin Whitley
Website: www.kayakkevin.com
Kayaking 4 Kidz
Duration: 57 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2011
Kayaking 4 Kidz is an instructional film made especially for kids who are starting out in kayaking. World Cup Champion Jez shares everything you need to know before you get on the water. Kids will be shown how to do a wet exit, empty their boat and perform basic strokes.
Director and Producer: Jez Blanchard
Website: www.skippyfilms.com
Life Jackets Float. Do you?
Duration: 13 min
Year Produced: 2009 • Year Released: 2009
The answer to this question is both entertaining and eye opening as we discover the many challenges moving water presents. Vertical currents, holes, strainers, foot entrapment and cold water are among the hazards. As our host sorts all this out, we realize that a properly working life jacket is the essential tool for enjoying it all.
Director: American Canoe Association Producer: Walkabout Productions
Website: www.americancanoe.org
Living the Stoke
Duration: 45 min
Year Produced: 2009 • Year Released: 2010
Eight close mates decide to take their stand-up paddle boards to the remote, war-torn wilderness of Papua, New Guinea. Bringing with them school books, clothes and other essentials the locals need, the paddlers stay with villagers, sharing their culture and living the stoke.
Director and Producer: Robert Pirie
Website: www.vonpiros.com
Locals Only
Duration: 11 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Let the locals be your guide as you dive into the unique aspects and captivating regions of the places they call home. Follow Chris Gragtmans down the infamous Green River Narrows, surf Bus Eater with Billy Harris and sail into Atlantic Canada with Kelsey Thompson.
Director and Producer: Kelsey Thompson
Website: www.localsonlymovie.com
Lock 32: A Success Story
Duration: 15 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Through the vision and perseverance of Rick Williams, with help from many others, Lock 32 Whitewater Park in Pittsford, New York, has become an incredible spot for paddlers of all abilities.
Director and Producer: Danny Doran
Website: www.dcdkayaking.com
The Magpie River 2010
Duration: 11 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Join paddlers as they play and float their way down the majestic Magpie River. Fly in by floatplane and camp at the water’s edge, exploring virgin Boreal forest and whitewater canyons.
Director and Producer: Skip Armstrong
Website: www.ceibaproductions.com
Mammalian
Duration: 63 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
A 2,000-kilometer arctic canoe journey from Yellowknife to Rankin Inlet provides the setting for this intimate, sideways look at the largest wilderness area in North America. From the deepest heart of the barrenlands, the filmmakers have emerged with a compelling portrait of the landscape and a shocking new discovery.
Director and Producer: Frank Wolf
Website: www.mammalian-movie.blogspot.com
Mazungu: First Descent of the Congo River
Duration: 48 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
This film is about a five-month solo attempt to make a first descent of the 2,922-mile-long Congo River in a Canadian canoe. The filmmaker faced thick swamp, huge rapids and crocodiles; was chased, bullied and threatened; and was stricken with malaria.
Director and Producer: Phil Harwood
Website: www.philharwood.co.uk
Ode to the Club Boater
Duration: 4 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
No club boaters were (intentionally) harmed during the making of this film.
Director: Tom Gerencer • Producer: Andrew Adkins
Outfitting Your Kayak for Fishing
Duration: 85 min
Year Produced: 2009 • Year Released: 2009
Kayak fishing pioneer and author Cory Routh and Whitney March, head of the TV show School of Saltwater Fishing, provide step-by-step instructions on how to rig a kayak for fishing.
Director: Billy Johnson • Producer: Triggerfish Video
Website: www.ruthlesskayakfishing.com
Realm
Duration: 35 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Realm follows four Kiwi kayakers on their quest for the podium in the world’s toughest extreme races. From New Zealand to North America, then on to Europe and Africa, the crew shares what it’s like to live the life of a globetrotting whitewater kayaker.
Director and Producer: Josh Neilson
Website: www.whitewater-koa.blogspot.com
River Tay Descent
Duration: 18 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Four hundred paddlers took part in the first Tay Descent, organized by the Scottish Canoe Association. Despite the cold October weather, they used a wide range of river craft, from open canoes to sea kayaks, inflatables to racing boats.
Director and Producer: Simon Willis
Website: www.sunartmedia.com
Save the French Broad: A Paddling Adventure
Duration: 20 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Join French Broad River Keeper Hartwell Carson as he journeys down 122 miles of the ancient French Broad River in North Carolina. Learn about the river’s threats from pollution, poor agricultural practices and clear cutting, and take water, sediment and fish tissue samples at a coal power plant.
Director and Producer: Jamie Higgins
Website: www.riverratrambling.com
Seasons: Fall
Duration: 4 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Deep canyons with steep, spring-fed creeks make White Salmon, Washington, a paddling paradise. White Salmon local Kate Wagner lets viewers know why she loves kayaking here so much.
Director and Producer: Skip Armstrong Website: www.ceibaproductions.com
Small Hydropower
Duration: 3:40 min
Year Produced 2010 • Released 2011
This short sarcastic film explains all about the many benefits (sarcasm) of Small Hydro Power, and the amazingly green (sarcasm) technology built into these run-of-river hydro projects. Don’t let those anti-dam liberals and fishermen give hydropower a bad rap.
Director: Tom Frisch • Producer: John Bohlmann
Website: www.tom11.com
Sola
Duration: 60 min
Year Produced: 2009 • Year Released: 2010
When the filmmakers first went to Louisiana in July 2008 to make a film about the complicated relationship between man and water, they had no idea that their reporting would conclude with the worst manmade ecologic disaster ever. Sola is a poignant retrospective of a way of life that may now be gone forever.
Director and Producer: Jon Bowermaster
Website: www.jonbowermaster.com, www.solathefilm.com
Solo
Duration: 60 min
Year Produced: 2007 • Year Released: 2008
On January 11, 2007, Andrew McAuley set out to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand across one of the world’s wildest and loneliest stretches of ocean. Thirty days later, maritime authorities received his distress call. McAuley lost his life only a day from completing his journey. Director: Jennifer Peedom & David Michoo • Producer: Jennifer Peedom
Website: www.essential-media.com
The Source
Duration: 25 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
The Borealis Canoe Club takes first time paddlers on an adventure of a lifetime. While taking the time to rediscover themselves, paddlers realize that the source of Alberta’s mightiest rivers is disappearing at an alarming rate.
Director and Producer: Darin Zandee
Website: www.borealiscanoe.ca
Tanker Love
Duration: 15 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
Join some of the world’s legendary stand-up paddlers as they descend on Galveston Bay to surf phenomenal, five-mile-long waves created by tankers headed toward Houston-all in the hope of raising awareness of the destruction left behind by Hurricane Ike.
Director: Brian Meehan • Producers: Brian Meehan and Cynthia Scrima
Website: www.explore.org
The Untouched Romaine River
Duration: 8 min
Year Produced: 2010 • Year Released: 2010
A group of four friends explore the Romaine River just as a massive dam building effort begins. They are awe-struck by the beauty of the river and wonder how the world is better by developing this pristine habitat.
Director and Producer: Skip Armstrong
Website: www.ceibaproductions.com