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BEST CANOEING FILM
The Summer of '99
Duration: 35 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
While canoeing with his family on the Lady Evelyn River in Temagami, a 10-year-old boy hears the secrets of fishing for speckled trout, including a sacred fishing spot. He, his younger brother and parents come back for a 16-day trip down the Lady Evelyn with lots of fishing and other adventures.
Director and Producer: Steve Moss
BEST SEA KAYAKING FILM
Shining Island—Xquest Queen Charlotte Islands
Duration: 46 minutes
Year Produced: 2005 • Year Released: 2006
Three friends face gales, cabin fever and ancestral ghosts as they attempt to circumnavigate Haida Gwaii's Graham Island by sea kayak.
Director: Frank Wolf
Producer: Ken Malenstyn
www.brbmg.com
BEST WHITEWATER FILM
Sickline 4
Duration: 64 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Once again Olaf Obsommer and Jens Klatt have been out in search of the ultimate Sickline. However, this time the heroes had to learn the hard way there is a fine line that separates immortality from doom.
Director and Producer: Olaf Obsommer
www.big-o-productions.com
BEST PADDLING ADVENTURE/TRAVEL FILM
Epics in Ice
Duration: 39 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2007
The dramatic tale of Australians who sea kayak 800 kilometres down the Antarctic Peninsula through incredibly challenging and life-threatening conditions. Both terrifying and hilarious, the team copes with many hazards with good humour. It's all worth it for the magical beauty and amazing wildlife in one of the last true wildernesses.
Director: Andrew McAuley
Producer: Justine Curgenven
www.cackletv.com
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Nomads
Duration: 21 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Share in the travels of three female whitewater kayakers as they attempt the Zambezi and White Nile rivers of Africa. They are connected by their love of the river and compassion for others. The river has empowered these women to make a difference by helping eradicate the deadly disease Malaria.
Directors: Polly Green and Chris Emerick
Producer: Polly Green
www.nomadsfilm.com
BEST SHORT FILM
Speedy Piñata
Duration: 3 minutes
Year Produced: 2005 • Year Released: 2006
A young entrepreneur hooks up with Speedy Piñata, a piñata delivery company. He proves to be a bit spatially challenged and puts his Yakima roof racks to the test on every delivery attempt.
Director: Tomorrow's Brightest Minds
Producer: Wexley School for Girls
www.wexley.com
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Agawa Canyon—Land of the Windigo
Duration: 19 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
A collogue of still shots from 35mm film, slides and digital images showing the beauty and the varied scenes one would encounter while canoeing in the area.
Director and Producer: Jeff McColl
Beyond The Horizon
Duration: 56 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Detailing the first circumnavigation of the Earth entirely by human power. Filming this journey by two Canadians involved canoeing, rowing across two oceans and long, remote treks. Julie Wafaei became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland and Colin Angus became the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
Directors and Producers: Julie Wafaei, Colin Angus
www.angusadventures.com
Decide to Return—A Strategy for Safe Sea Kayaking
Duration: 11 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2007
Explore the conscious and unconscious choices we make every time we leave the shore, some meaning the difference between a safe outing and disaster. Decide to Return gives practical food for thought so you'll be prepared for your next sea kayaking adventure. Follow Kate and Jake as their skill, preparedness and equipment choices shape the day.
Directors: Russ and Alison Nichols and Robert Kauffman
Producer: American Canoe Association
www.americancanoe.org
Festival D'eau Vive de la Haute-Gatineau
Duration: 47 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
More than a celebratory film about the Gatineau River Festival, it explains how a group of strongly convicted paddlers fought to save their rapids from hydro-electric programs and open the river to whitewater paddling. Also makes a great guidebook to the river’s most famous rapids.
Director: Alain Bonin
Producer: Francois Fortin
www.canot-kayak.qc.ca
Grand River: Labrador's Treasure, Newfoundland's Secret
Duration: 18 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Follow a group of adventurers on their canoe trip down the Grand River in Newfoundland (known outside Labrador as Church River). The paddlers share their love of the river and their many concerns over the serious degradation of this marvelous resource that would stem from current plans to dam it.
Director: Brenda Beck
Producer: Soft Science Associates Ltd.
www.softscience.ca
Gravity
Duration: 25 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
A fast-paced whitewater adventure through North America that also serves as a video guidebook. All rivers have their own segment with all major rapids labeled. The full version contains 30 minutes of additional footage not shown at the festival.
Director and Producer: Chris Gorman
www.autoboofproductions.com
Grayscale
Duration: 24 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Grayscale is a whitewater destination film featuring river running and first descents in Alberta, BC, California and Quebec. The film focuses on creeks that are off the beaten path and have never been on video before. This is 100 per cent paddler porn where the only story is the one told by the rivers themselves.
Directors and Producers: Sean Allen and Spencer Cox
www.kayakwest.com
Hotel Charley—No Big Names 4
Duration: 51 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Ben Stookesberry and Jesse Coombs embark on a one-of-a-kind whitewater kayak adventure to Columbia, Brazil and Chiapas, Mexico. Along the way they make more than 20 first descents in Brazil and run the gorgeous, but infamous, falls of the Rio Santo Domingo in Chiapas, Mexico.
Director and Producer: Ben Stookesberry
www.clearh2ofilms.com
Huckd
Duration: 50 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
A group of Irish kayakers search the globe for their next whitewater fix. All money that is generated from the sale of this DVD goes directly back into the Irish Freestyle Committee.
Directors: Graham Clarke and Alan Leonard
Producers: Graham Clarke, Alan Leonard, and Ciaran Rowan
www.huckd.com
In-Flux
Duration: 65 minutes
Year Produced: 2005 • Year Released: 2006
Whitewater is the lead performer as In-Flux transports you to places seldom seen: extreme rapids or aerial freestyle sessions, the players gather together all the different aspects of kayaking in an epic trip around the world. Discover fascinating cultures and backdrops recorded in a way that's refreshingly unique.
Director and Producer: David Arnaud
www.thinkliquid.net
Killarney
Duration: 13 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
With its crystal clear lakes and white quartzite mountains, canoeing in Killarney Provincial Park is like stepping into a Group of Seven painting. This pristine Georgian Bay, Ontario area was threatened in the 1970s by acid rain and survived, but there is a new threat on the horizon.
Director: Bryan Mullan
Producers: Bryan Mullan and Jane Jankovic
www.tvo.org
Leaving Home Again on the Lewis and Clark Trail
Duration: 40 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Two years after completing an 8,000-mile journey around the western United States, Robert Carpenter again heads to the river with his canoe, following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clarke on the bicentennial celebration of the Corps of Discovery Expedition. Robert documents how things have changed and how some have stayed the same along the route 200 years later.
Director and Producer: Robert M. Carpenter
www.canoejourney.tv
Migratory Species
Duration: 23 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
This movie is not about adrenaline rushes or kayakers pushing the limits. It offers a brief glimpse into the travels of three fortunate paddlers, gifted with extraordinary opportunities to paddle with terrific people on some of the world's most beautiful creeks and rivers.
Directors: Remy Mansfield and David Gordon
Producers: Sam Fey and Remy Mansfield
Misadventures in Quetico
Duration: 12 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2007
Based on a 27-day canoe trip in Quetico Provincial Park—and the misadventures along the way—the film is a humourous account of Kevin Callan and Andy Baxter's attempt to deal with nasty wood ticks, broken camp chairs and an inability to fish.
Producer and Director: Kevin Callan
Mission: Epicocity
Duration: 45 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
The EP crew tours from Patagonia to British Columbia and from Uganda to Oregon. It features the some of the best kayakers in the world running the next level of waterfalls and rapids as well as some thrilling freestyle action.
Director: Trip Jennings
Producer: Karl Moser
www.epicocity.com
O'Dragon, Wherefore Art Thou?
Duration: 23 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
A tongue-in-cheek look inside the pro-paddling community. Humorous puppet animation links together the impressive and extreme kayaking footage.
Director and Producer: Corran Addison
www.2imagine.net
Paddling Trees
Duration: 20 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
With jet skis and powerboats dominating waterways, it is easy to forget a great deal of the world still relies on boat designs that haven't changed much for thousands of years. Paddling Trees was filmed around the world during the past 20 years and documents some of the fascinating primitive boats and dugout canoes still in use in the developing world.
Director and Producer: Tom Lindblade
Recreational Kayaking: The Essential Skills and Safety
Duration: 20 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2007
An ideal instructional DVD for beginner and developing recreational or touring kayakers. Recreational Kayaking: The Essential Skills and Safety demonstrates the safety skills and paddling techniques key to enjoying time on the water.
Director and Producer: Ken Whiting
www.helipress.com
Search For The Rio Bravo
Duration: 25 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Search for adventure on the great river of Ecuador through lush jungles and deep canyons, powerful rapids and isolated villages. The paddlers move from modern kayaks to dugout canoes, tackle challenges from Malaria to riot police and discover people and places far removed from their Irish roots.
Director and producer: Colin Irvine
www.rivernomad.com
Stuck in the Mud: The Pajaro River in Peril
Duration: 33 minutes
Year Produced: 2003 • Year Released: 2005
This film educates viewers about sedimentation problems in the Pajaro caused largely by sand and gravel mining. The central California river and its history is explored through the observations of biologists, attorneys and land use managers.
Director and Producer: Lois Robin
Talking to Angels
Duration: 56 minutes
Year Produced: 1993 • Year Released: 1993
In Talking to Angels, Perkins returns to the Canadian Arctic to canoe into the great unknown, this time while struggling with the unsettling news of his girlfriend's breast cancer. Their two film journals are interwoven to relate a powerful story about love in the face of adversity.
Director and Producer: Robert Perkins
www.gotrob.com
The Moose
Duration: 13 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
A video documentary about the Moose River, its festival and the whitewater gems that make this New York State river so popular.
Director and Producer: Tim Loubier
The Pororoca Experience
Duration: 18 minutes
Year Produced: 2006 • Year Released: 2006
Kayaking's first attempt to surf the second most powerful tidal bore in the world—the Amazon's Pororoca. Paddlers Rusty Sage, Steve Fisher, Diego Valsechi, and Corran Addison show off their unrivalled style.
Director: Corran Addison
Producer: 2 Imagine
www.2imagine.net
The Ultimate Guide to Sea Kayaking
Duration: 28 minutes
Year Produced: 2004 • Year Released: 2005
This four-part video by World Champion kayaker Ken Whiting and expert sea kayaker Alex Matthews provides both new and experienced paddlers the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and comfortably enjoy sea kayaking. Award-winning cameraman, Chris Emerick, captures all the action from destination hotspots around Vancouver Island, the Olympic Peninsula and Algonquin Park.
Director and producer: Ken Whiting
www.helipress.com
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