2008 RPFF AWARD WINNING FILMS

BEST ADVENTURE TRAVEL
Birthplace of the Wind    
Duration: 25 minutes    
Year Produced: 2006    
Year Released: 2006    
A three-week long journey from California, through British Columbia and Alaska delivers one of the loneliest and least-known spots on earth (halfway between Russia and Alaska), where the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea collide at what the Aleuts called, the Birthplace of the Wind. A sea kayak journey to five volcanic Aleutian islands rising straight out of the sea, in a region where it is common for gales to exceed 100 miles an hour with 10-foot standing tidal rips.    
Director and Producer: Jon Bowermaster    
Website: www.jonbowermaster.com

BEST INSTRUCTIONAL PADDLING FILM
Kayak Fishing: The Ultimate Guide
Duration: 60 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 15 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2008    
The Ultimate Guide to Kayak Fishing is a comprehensive look at one of the fastest growing sports in North America. Scott Null and Joel McBride cover all the basics to give the new kayak angler a solid foundation of skills and concepts, and allow a safe and comfortable entry into the sport. The authors also draw on their vast knowledge to offer a wealth of tips and tricks to help even very experienced anglers get the most of their time on the water.    
Directors and Producers: Ken Whiting, Will Richardson    
Website: www.helipress.com

BEST SHORT PADDLING FILM
Lockapalooza Rodeo    
Duration: 5 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Lockapalooza Rodeo is a clever claymation featurette made by 11-year-old Ben Doran as a fundraiser for the Lock 32 Whitewater Park in Pittsford, NY. The main character is bored and doesn't have anything to do, until he sees a commercial for Lock 32 and decides to give whitewater kayaking a try.    
Director and Producer: Ben Doran    
Website: www.claydogh.blogspot.com

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Oil + Water
Duration: 60 minutes    [FESTIVAL VERSION 33 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007
Year Released: 2008
Seth Warren and Tyler Bradt kayak the rivers of the Americas and tackle the longest 100% petroleum-free road trip in the world: The Pan-American Highway. Sparked by the unified vision of two brotherly kayakers with a passion for sustainable lifestyle choices, the Oil + Water Project combines their passion for life on the water with a strong desire to motivate and educate youth to make sustainable lifestyle choices through alternative energy.
Director and Producer: Seth Warren
Website: www.oilandwaterproject.org

BEST SEA KAYAKING FILM
Pacific Horizons: Exploring the Northwest Coast by Kayak    
Duration: 60 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 30 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Blending wildlife, people, places and action-packed kayaking, Bryan Smith takes us on an unforgettable journey documenting: impressive tidal race surfing; the Orca whales of the San Juan Islands; the Bunsby Islands off the remote coast of Vancouver Island; "commando kayaking" with Greenland rolling and rope gymnastics champion Dudside and the wind and waves of the Oregon coast.    
Director and Producer: Bryan Smith    
Website: www.pacifichorizonfilm.blogspot.com

BEST CANOEING FILM
River Dumoine: A Paddlers' Journey    
Duration: 70 minutes    [FESTIVAL VERSION 22 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
A true-life adventure of six paddlers making a classic journey down the Dumoine River in Quebec. The 22-piece soundtrack elevates the magic captured on this magnificent river. This whitewater river film features the last un-dammed river in southern Quebec, the majestic power of a wilderness river and inspires the affection we all have for a canoe adventure on a wild river.    
Director and Producer: Tony Buell    
Website: www.rivieredumoine.ca

BEST KAYAK FISHING FILM
Threshers Yak Style    
Duration: 40 minutes    [FESTIVAL VERSION 30 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2004    
Year Released: 2005    
An instant classic about kayak fishing for thresher sharks off the beaches of Malibu. This film inspires the CPR method of kayak fishing... catch, photograph and release.    
Director and Producer: Michael Fowlker    
Website: www.insidesportfishing.com

BEST WHITEWATER FILM
The Green Race Movie    
Duration: 52 minutes     [FESTIVAL VERSION 31 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
The Green Race Movie tells the story of a world-class whitewater race that takes place near Saluda, North Carolina every November. This movie captures the grace and excitement of class V+ kayaking as well as the unique character of the Green River race, a grassroots competition that draws the top athletes in kayaking from around the world.    
Director: Chris Gallaway    
Producer: Chris Gallaway & Spencer Cook    
Website: www.thegreenracemovie.com


OTHER FILMS GOING ON THE WORLD TOUR

Belongs To You    
Duration: 5 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Film Summary    
This short film was created as a music video for the band Caledonia. Belongs to You was produced, directed and is starring Kelsey Thompson. It is a synthesis of a rockin' East Coast paddler's adventures set to the tunes of a rockin' East Coast band.
Director and Producer: Kelsey Thompson    
Website: www.atlantickayaker.com

Bluewater Jon and the Giant Tuna    
Duration: 57 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 5 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Bluewater Jon Schwartz gets hooked into big game kayak fishing, and finds out the ultimate challenge is to tussle with a giant tuna. Scouring the globe for the perfect location, technique, and equipment, he ends up in Hawaii's fabled Kona Coast, the "Land of the Giants." He explains why he chooses this area and the unique methods he will employ, ending up with a variety of entertaining adventures and exotic fish, including a giant tuna.    
Director and Producer: Jon Schwartz    
Website: www.bluewaterjon.com

Canoeing: Essential Skills and Safety    
Duration: 90 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 15 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2008    
Canoeing: Essential Skills and Safety is for all levels of paddlers, teaching beginners about the skills they need to manoeuvre a canoe on flat water, and offers more advanced paddlers expert advice on how to hone their technique. Whether you enjoy small day trips around lakes and slow-moving rivers, overnight trips or full-on expeditions, Andrew Westwood breaks down the techniques needed to maximize your enjoyment of the canoe.    
Directors and Producers: Ken Whiting, Will Richardson    
Website: www.helipress.com

Canoeing to the Arctic    
Duration: 22 minutes
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Film follows six Canadians of Serbian background as they descend the Hood River from Lake Tahikafaluk to the Arctic Sound. It celebrates the beauty of the Canadian north and the ingenuity of six 21st-century paddlers. In the lower reaches of the Hood, friends paddle the same water and walk the shores of the river ascended by Franklin's 1921 expedition. This film features English subtitles with occasional English narration.
Director: Nena Toth    
Producers: Aleksandar Gusev, Radmilo Anicic, Zoran Lucic, Aleksandar Pantelic, Milos Petrusirovic, Predrag Stojkovic

Dangerous Archipelago    
Duration: 25 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Exploring the Tuamotus, one of five French Polynesian archipelagos and some of the most remote islands in the world, tiny green oases floating in the desert of the seas. The Tuamotus are composed of 78 distinct coral reef atolls, stretching 930 miles north-northwest of Tahiti.
Director and Producer: Jon Bowermaster    
Website: www.jonbowermaster.com

Downunder the Horizonline    
Duration: 45 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 12 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2008    
A film about grabbing a boat and getting out there - the rivers of the world are waiting to be paddled. This movie is made by three good Aussie mates, all shot in one year for one reason and one reason only... "To get our mates off their arses and live their dreams."
Directors and Producers: Jez, Adrian and Colin    
Website: www.skippyfilms.com

Eagle River: Liquid Jewel of the Sunshine Coast    
Duration: 13 minutes
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Immerse yourself in a quiet and inspirational four-season journey through the Eagle River watershed from alpine to ocean. Unique "amphibiography," shot above and below the waterline in the same image, gives a distinct perspective to the trip.    
Director: Terry L. Brown    
Producer: Terry L. Brown & Jude Abrams    
Website: www.otterbegood.com

49 Megawatts    
Duration: 30 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
49 Megawatts takes a close look at the future of British Columbia's rivers after the issue of hundreds of private water licenses for power production and the Ashlu Creek Hydro Project. Bryan Smith explores how British Columbia is fast-tracking hydro projects under the name of "green power" without efforts to curb demand, assess the environmental impacts of "run-of-the-river" hydro projects, or consider the input of local communities and governments.    
Director and Producer: Bryan Smith    
Website: www.therangelife.com

Hotel Charley Vol. 2: River of Doubt    
Duration: 75 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 32 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Follow an elite group of Team Jackson paddlers including Ben Stookesberry, Nick Troutman and Eric Jackson on the first descent of the middle portion of the Rio Alseseca, in interior Veracruz, Mexico-it's as Hotel Charley hardcore as they come. Spending 12 days on only 22 km of river, the group uses a hybrid of class V+ kayaking and extreme canyoneering to establish one of the greatest river descents of the 21st century.
Director and Producer: Ben Stookesberry    
Website: www.clearh2ofilms.com

International Whitewater Hall of Fame: The 2007 Honorees    
Duration: 13 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
This testament to the 2007 International Whitewater Hall of Fame honorees salutes their remarkable accomplishments so that their contribution to whitewater sport may be appreciated by those following in their celebrated paths: Explorer- Walt Blackader; Pioneer- Toni Prijon; Champions- Richard Fox, Cathy Hearn; Advocates- Bill Endicott, William Nealy.    
Director: Risa Shimoda    
Producer: Paddlesports Industry Foundation    
Website: www.adventuresportscenter.com/IWHOF/hofame.htm

Islands of the Haida    
Duration: 41 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007
Year Released: 2008    
Canada's most isolated islands offer a remarkable blend of native culture, jagged mountain scenery, powerful ocean swells and rich wildlife. Three paddlers sea kayak 800 km around Haida Gwaii, exploring the proud remains of Haida totem poles, meeting local characters and enduring yet more oatmeal for breakfast. A kayak-mounted camera captures close encounters with whales, bald eagles, sea lions and bears, and the tension as the team pushes on in three-metre swells and fog.    
Director and Producer: Justine Curgenven    
Website: www.cackletv.com

Into the Altiplano    
Duration: 47 minutes
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
A quest for paddle-able lakes throughout South America's Altiplano, crossing the borders of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, some of the earth's driest places. The motivation was to not only to seek out water; the big salt lakes, high Andean rivers, streams and man-made reservoirs-but to explore just how man has managed to survive here for 100 centuries.    
Director and Producer: Jon Bowermaster    
Website: www.jonbowermaster.com

Kopka River    
Duration: 16 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
The film Kopka River follows the misadventures of Kevin Callan and friends paddling northwestern Ontario's Kopka River to Lake Nipigeon. They deal with bugs, bad weather, brutal portages and some of the best scenery the province has to offer.    
Director and Producer: Kevin Callan    

The Last Kung Pao Through the Young Bao Gorge    
Duration: 24 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year released: 2007    
Kung Pao is associated with spicy flavour. The Yong Bao Gorge on the Mekong River is fraught with spicy action; big water with solid class IV rapids in deep rocky gorges. Travis Winn, a China river explorer, assembled Chinese and American academics focused on the sociological impact of indigenous communities, hydropower development, and river conservation of the Mekong, where the highest dam in the world will soon inundate the Yong Bao Gorge. They embark on what may be the last run of this section of river.
Director and Producer: Dan Monskey    
Website: www.wildmonkeysproductions.com

Loch Faoilem   
Duration: 15 min   
Year Produced: 2007   
Year Released: 2007
 Come with us to the Outer Hebrides of Scotland where we have discovered a new material so stiff and light it will revolutionize the Paddling World! This film is a comedic journey to a timeless place, the Outer Hebrides.   
Director and Producer: Russell Farrow   
Website: www.sweetwaterkayaks.com

No Bad Days: Baja Part 7    
Duration: 60 minutes    [FESTIVAL VERSION 17 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2005    
Year Released: 2005    
Marlin, sailfish, yellowfin, dorado, roosters, pargo and grouper; it doesn't matter if you work the beach with fly tackle or head offshore, the fishing at the East Cape region of Baja is as good as it gets anywhere on earth. When you're fishing here, there are No Bad Days.    
Director and Producer: Michael Fowlker    
Website: www.insidesportfishing.com

Paddling the Recreational Kayak    
Duration: 65 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Paddling the Recreational Kayak is a DVD full of ideas, instruction and inspiration. Designed to be the missing owner's manual every new paddler should have. Each chapter introduces and explains a topic that a novice paddler can incorporate into their new paddling lifestyle.    
Director and Producer: Jeff Bach    
Website: www.quietwaterfilms.com

The Passion of Kayaking    
Duration: 72 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2008    
The Passion of Kayaking presents an easy way to learn kayak techniques and inspires interest in the sport. Teaches a variety of techniques using real-life situations giving useful advice to the beginner as well as the expert. Clips lasting from two to six minutes revolve around kayak trips in Greenland, Mauritius, Patagonia, Venice, Peru, Croatia, Greece, Norway and Cape Horn.    
Director: Fabio Pasini    
Producer: Geoantropo    
Website: www.lofotenskikayak.org

Painkillerz III: The Return of the Kings
Duration 4 minutes        
Year Produced 2006
Year Released     2006
In the final installment of the Lord of the Boats Trilogy, the dark side takes over; our heroes Scream, Spawn and Nitro enter a new, dark dimension. From Salomon Islands to Middle Earth and the first descents of the Falls of Mordor and Saruman Creek, it's heavy metal boating that's out of this world! Oh, and the paddlers and boats are three-inches tall and made of foam.
Director: Jens Klatt    
Producer: Olaf Obsommer    
Website: www.sickline.com

Rolling a Kayak    
Duration: 90 minutes [FESTIVAL VERSION 15 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2008
Rolling a Kayak is a comprehensive, clear and concise guide to learning and perfecting the kayak roll. Designed for both whitewater and sea kayakers, this DVD has something for all paddlers. Novice kayakers will learn the fundamental skills and get step-by-step instruction for the standard rolls while experienced paddlers will learn how to execute advanced rolling techniques, as well as how to roll in current, waves, holes and ocean surf.    
Directors and Producers: Ken Whiting, Will Richardson
Website: www.helipress.com

7 Weeks in Tibet    
Duration: 25 minutes
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Follow an international team of six whitewater kayakers as they embark on the journey of a lifetime. Their challenging attempt to be the first to paddle the length of the Parlung Tsangpo River in Tibet takes them deep into the Himalayas. Friendships, skill and nerves will all be tested to the limit.    
Director and Director: Dave Kwant    
Website: www.toatee.tv

Source    
Duration: 45 minutes    [FESTIVAL VERSION 5 MINUTES]
Year Produced: 2006-2007    
Year Released: 2008    
From the creators of Dynasty comes this epic global kayak adventure down some of the world's greatest rivers, providing a glimpse at what kayakers face as they travel through diverse and challenging locations like the remote canyons of California, Vietnam and Patagonia's threatened Rio Baker. With plenty of global first descents, new heights in freestyle and the biggest waterfalls ever run, Source captures stunning action in impossible locations.
Director and Producer: Young Gun Productions    
Website: www.younggunproductions.com

Source to the Sea    
Duration: 36 minutes    
Year Produced: 2007    
Year Released: 2007    
Expedition kayaker Ram Silwal's dream was to follow his beloved Nepali rivers to the end, where these veins of the Earth drain into the sea. He and Endra Rai take on the raging whitewater of Nepal, the holy but flooded Ganges River in India and the hot mangrove forests of Bangladesh-a remarkable river journey of 1,350 km in 19 days from the high mountains of the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal.     
Director: Pia Arvidsson    
Producer: Ram Silwal    
Website: www.ramsilwal.com / www.miragomedia.com

Wilderness 99    
Duration: 26 minutes    
Year Produced: 2006    
Year Released: 2006    
Wilderness 99 is a video account of an Everglades kayak expedition along the Wilderness Waterways, a trip with stunning vistas and, for Pat Welsh, an unexpected outcome. Mr. Welsh is ready to defeat the defiant Wilderness Waterways, solo. Ninety-nine miles of rivers and bays, the photography alone is rare documentation of the sensational beauty of the Gulf-side waterways of the Everglades.    
Director and Producer: Pat Welsh    
Website: www.welshmediaproductions.com

Zambezi Mosi-oa-Tunya    
Duration: 29 minutes
Year Produced: 2006
Year Released: 2006
The original name of the Zambezi River is Mosi-oa-Tunya, which roughly means "the thundering smoke." At more than 2,500 km long the Zambezi River is the fourth longest in Africa, flowing from northern Zambia, through Namibia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique into the Indian Ocean. While the upper and lower Zambezi are mainly flat water, the 120 km below Victoria Falls explored in this travel film are pure whitewater, an unequalled whitewater Mecca.
Director and Producer: Olaf Obsommer    
Web site: www.sickline.com

2007 AWARD WINNING FILMS

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

ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD TOUR

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