PALMER RAPIDS, ON: Rapid Media, producers of the Reel Paddling Film
Festival, announced today that its 2008 World Tour is now booked in 65
cities and higher-than-ever audience sizes make it the largest paddling
film festival in the world.
Reel Paddling Film Festival Breaking Records
Palmer Rapids, ON, April 9, 2008–Rapid Media, producers of the Reel Paddling Film Festival, announced today that its 2008 World Tour is now booked in 65 cities and higher-than-ever audience sizes make it the largest paddling film festival in the world.
With the final tour schedule expected to exceed 75 venues, the RPFF will put the year’s best paddling films in front of 15,000 new and enthusiast paddlers across North America. Film festival Director Scott MacGregor is excited to see the festival grow. “The festival is doing exactly what we hoped it would,” says MacGregor. “It is getting audiences excited to paddle, it highlights the year’s best films and filmmakers, and offers shops, clubs and events a venue to bring together their customers, members and friends.”
Average audience size for this year’s World Tour is 200 per screening. In Sudbury the Laurentian Outdoor Adventure Leadership program and Ramakko’s packed 263 into the university’s Fraser Auditorium. REI in Arlington, Massachusetts, expects more than 1,000 to attend their April 16 and 17 shows. And Adirondack Paddlefest in Old Forge, New York, is expecting 1,500 at their screenings on May 16, 17 and 18.
Becoming a host of the Reel Paddling Film Festival is easy. All you need to do is book a venue like a community theatre, college lecture hall, boathouse, event or even a local pub. In the film festival package Rapid Media provides posters, tickets, programs and even free magazine subscriptions for everyone in the audience for first-year hosts.
To find out who is hosting and where to see the films, see the Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour schedule in each issue of Rapid, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots, Family Camping and Kayak Angler magazines, or on the Rapid Media website at www.rapidmedia.com
Rapid Media has been the leader in paddlesports media and events since 1999. Rapid Media publishes Rapid, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots, Family Camping, and Kayak Angler magazines, and produces a series of Canadian paddling events and the Reel Paddling Film Festival. For more information, visit www.rapidmedia.com.
Media Contacts
Russ Schroeder, Reel Paddling Film Festival–Festival Coordinator, (613) 635-7249
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