FILMFEST

The BARRIE CANOE & KAYAK CLUB

PRESENTS THE REEL PADDLING FILM FESTIVAL , WORLD TOUR 2010, MARCH 12TH & 13TH

FILM PROGRAM:

Fri. March 12th - 7pm to 10PM

EVENING PROGRAM

Open ---------------------------------------- 6:30pm

Exhibit viewing --------------------------- 6:30>7:00

Introduction ------------------------------- 7:00>7:05

FILM SELECTION:

Sea Kayak Scotland to the Faeroes
Duration: 14 min [Festival Version 13:45 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
In June 2009, Patrick Winterton and Mick Berwick set off on an attempt to make the first kayak crossing from Scotland to the Faeroe Islands - a distance of over 180 nautical miles across one of the most tidal and stormbound sections of the Atlantic. It's a journey few have tried and no one has succeeded.
Director: Richard Else
Producer: Margaret Wicks
Website: www.tripleecho.co.uk

Let the Slave Run
Duration: 17 min [Festival Version 14:10 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
The Slave River in Canada's Northwest Territories offers world-class play spots, river running and even creeking first descents. This video features four sets of rapids and raises awareness about the damming threat to this unique river.
Director and Producer: Jacqui Whitehead
Website: www.jac-hotmessproductions.blogspot.com

Kayak Fishing-Game on 2
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

INTERMISSION --------------------------8:05>8:25

Finding Farley
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

Armada
Duration: 12 min [Festival Version 11:20 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Twenty friends gather on the Upper Red Deer River in the Alberta foothills to end the 2008 summer with a weekend of whitewater canoeing. Ranging from pro-star to experienced swimmers, all are ready to get their paddle on and have a good time.
Director: Aaron Janzen
Producer: Aaron Janzen & Graham Nelson
Website: www.selahfilms.ca

Into Perpetual Ice
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

Paddling the Kootenay River
Duration: 7 min
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
A three-day canoe trip by the Bow Waters Canoe Club on B.C.'s Kootenay River in August 2009.   Director and Producer: Rolf Stengl

Sup on This
Duration: 7 min [Festival Version 5 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Stand Up Paddleboarding is taking the whitewater world by storm, with the "who's who" of the paddling world all getting on board. This film shows the potential that SUP holds for river runners looking for new challenges on their favourite runs, from class III-IV to surfing river waves.
Director and Producer: Corran Addison

Exhibit viewing ----------------------------10:00>10:30

CLOSING ----------------------------------10:30>11:00

Sat. March 13th at 7 pm to 10 pm

EVENING PROGRAM

Open ---------------------------------------- 6:30pm

Exhibit viewing --------------------------- 6:30>7:00

Introduction ------------------------------- 7:00>7:05

FILM SELECTION:

Call of the River
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

Just Like You Imagined
Duration: 35 min [Festival Version 3:35 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Featuring amateur Ottawa-area paddlers in 11 segments of whitewater fun, from Ontario and Quebec to New York, North Carolina and Ecuador.
Director and Producer: Mike McKay & Mike Kobzik
Website: www.five2nine.ca

River Life
Duration: 26 Min
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Nine paddlers travel up the Chipman River from Black Lake to Selwgn Lake on the border between Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories during an eight-day canoe trip in the summer of 2009.
Director and Producer: Rio Fitch

Sea Kayak Scotland to the Faeroes
Duration: 14 min [Festival Version 13:45 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
In June 2009, Patrick Winterton and Mick Berwick set off on an attempt to make the first kayak crossing from Scotland to the Faeroe Islands - a distance of over 180 nautical miles across one of the most tidal and stormbound sections of the Atlantic. It's a journey few have tried and no one has succeeded.
Director: Richard Else
Producer: Margaret Wicks
Website: www.tripleecho.co.uk

Falling
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

INTERMISSION --------------------------8:05>8:25

Paddle to Seattle
Duration: 85 min [Festival Version 40 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2010
In homemade Pygmy wooden boats, J.J. Kelley and Josh Thomas travelled the 1,300-mile Inside Passage. For three months, Kelley 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. Kelley and Ben Gottfried
Website: www.paddletoseattle.com

Lucky 13
Duration: 6 min
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Lucky 13 chases a West Kootenay-based group of whitewater kayakers in search of a wild paddling in their backyard. Compiling footage and outtakes from the last two seasons of spring paddling.
Director and Producer: Carl Jacks
Website: www.daintydeathy.com

Canoeing Old Growth
Duration: 10 min [Festival Version 8:25 min]
Year Produced: 2007
Year Released: 2007
After years of paddling the rocky coastline of Ontario's Georgian Bay, four friends decide to visit another of Ontario's natural wonders: The old growth forests of the Temagami region.
Director and Producer: David Bain

Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown
Duration: 19 min [Festival Version 16:50 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Exciting, practical sea kayak instruction from one of the world's top coaches guides kayakers from the fundamentals, through forward paddling, turning and steering, and into rough water and tidal races. Beautifully shot on a four-day voyage along the west coast of the Isle of Skye, we explore caves, waterfalls, dramatic sea stacks and 5,000-year-old historic sites.
Director and Producer: Simon Willis
Website: www.seakayakwithgordonbrown.com

Let the Slave Run
Duration: 17 min [Festival Version 14:10 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
The Slave River in Canada's Northwest Territories offers world-class play spots, river running and even creeking first descents. This video features four sets of rapids and raises awareness about the damming threat to this unique river.
Director and Producer: Jacqui Whitehead
Website: www.jac-hotmessproductions.blogspot.com

Sup On This
Duration: 7 min [Festival Version 5 min]
Year Produced: 2009
Year Released: 2009
Stand Up Paddleboarding is taking the whitewater world by storm, with the "who's who" of the paddling world all getting on board. This film shows the potential that SUP holds for river runners looking for new challenges on their favourite runs, from class III-IV to surfing river waves.
Director and Producer: Corran Addison

Exhibit viewing ----------------------------10:00>10:30

CLOSING ----------------------------------10:30>11:00PM

doors open at 6:30pm

there will be displays relevant to all things paddling by various exibitors