Regular Admission : $12.00 in advance, $15.00 at the gate
Film Festival/Symposium Combo Tickets = $17.00 in advance, $20.00 at the gate (that's just $5.00 for the Symposium with your Film Festival ticket!) 


THE REEL PADDLING FILM FESTIVAL COMES TO DUNNVILLE !!!

Join us for a screening of the Reel Paddling Film Festival, and help us kick off the Southcoast Paddlesports Symposium weekend!
This will be a great evening with some of the best paddling films of 2012.
This event is co-hosted by Grand River Kayak and the Dunnville Secondary School “Trailblazers” Outdoor Education Program.
The venue for the film festival will be Dunnville Secondary School.
All profits from ticket sales go to support the club’s programs.

http://www.southcoastpaddlesports.ca for more information and a complete schedule of the weekend's events. Purchase tickets for just the Film Festival OR buy a great combo ticket and get your admission to the Southcoast Paddlesports Symposium on Sunday May 6th for just $5.00 !!!

 

REEL PADDLING FILM FESTIVAL—WINNERS!!!

PALMER RAPIDS, ON, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 – The 7th annual Reel Paddling Film Festival premiered last night at The Royal Cinema on College Street in Toronto. The keen audience was treated to the first screenings of some of the year’s award winning films. The full list of winners are:

1. Best Sea Kayaking Film: In Rescues – Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown, you’ll see exciting and practical rescue coaching sessions from one of the world’s top coaches.
2. Best Canoeing Film: Tracing the Columbia brings together two historical moments: David Thompson’s charting of the Columbia River in 1811 and the 45-day journey paddling the river to mark the 200^th anniversary of Thompson’s achievement.
3. Best Whitewater Film: In Wildwater, journey into the places only river runners can go.  It’s a visually stunning feast for the senses, and an expedition into new ideas.
4. Best Kayak Fishing Film: ExOfficio Presents Kayak Fishing: Game On 4 Jim Sammons hooks up with Paul Harwood on the Fraser River in BC with the goal of catching one of the areas enormous sturgeon.
5. Best Environmental Paddling Film: The Pipedreams Project follows 3 kayakers on their epic two-month expedition to oppose a $5.5 Billion pipeline project in British Columbia.
6. Best Paddling Documentary: Chasing Water is the story of Pete McBride, a child of the Colorado River, as he decides to follow the water from his ranch in Western Colorado to see where it ends up.
7. Best Amateur/Short Paddling Film: So Fine sees Zac Crouse develop banjo paddling with the help from a Muppet.
8. Best Instructional Paddling Film: Advanced Classic Solo Canoeing with Becky Mason will leave you spellbound by the advanced strokes and maneuvers she shows and the stunning underwater camera angles.
9. Best Stand-up Paddling Film: In Standup 4 Greatbear, Norm Hann takes us on a 400km SUP expedition through the Great Bear Rainforest, and along the proposed North Coast oil tanker route.

“We have more screenings in more cities than ever before,” says Scott MacGregor, Founder and Publisher of Rapid Media “With so many new paddling shops, clubs and events hosting the World Tour, we’re well on our way to blowing 100 showings right out of the water.”