2010 RPFF Award Winning Films

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This is Canoeing - BEST CANOEING FILM
Duration: 5-35 min [Festival Version 7:40 min]
Year Produced: 2009    
Year Released: 2010    
A long overdue celebration of canoeing, showcasing some of the single blade's most talented paddlers, exploring wilderness and running challenging whitewater. Stunning, high definition footage and charming stories from multiple award-winning filmmaker Justine Curgenven.
Director and Producer: Justine Curgenven        
Website: www.cackletv.com

Paddle to Seattle: Journey Through the Inside Passage - BEST SEA KAYAKING FILM
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

Kayak Fishing: Game On 2 - BEST KAYAK FISHING FILM
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

Facing East - BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PADDLING FILM   
Duration: 20 min [Festival Version 19:40 min]
Year Produced: 2007-2009    
Year Released: 2009    
The ability of China's rivers to sustain the communities that depend on them has never been in more danger than now. China is now home to the largest hydroelectric project on earth. Vital Films presents the story of the Yangtze River before it is transformed into reservoirs. Come on a journey with a group of kayakers and explorers as they make the final descent of the Yangtze River.    
Director: Matt Hobbs & Cael Jones    
Producer: Matt Hobbs    
Website: www.vital-films.com

Into Perpetual Ice - BEST WHITEWATER FILM
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

Falling - BEST SHORT FILM 
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

Finding Farley - BEST ADVENTURE/TRAVEL PADDLING FILM   
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

The Call of the River - BEST DOCUMENTARY PADDLING FILM 
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

Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown - BEST INSTRUCTIONAL PADDLING FILM 
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


2009 RPFF Winners