California Canoe & Kayak hosts the 2nd annual Reel Paddling Film Festival at the Jack London Aquatic Center on June 14 that will benefit the JLAC Youth Kayaking Programs.
Published: June, 2008
Reel Paddling Film Festival Comes to Jack London Aquatic Center
The event is part of a world tour presenting the world’s best whitewater, sea kayaking and canoeing action and lifestyle films of the year on screens in 75 cities across Canada, United States, and around the world.
Audiences can expect to see hairy whitewater action, sea kayakers explore remote coastlines, monster kayak fishing, bug-infested canoe expeditions, international travel films, environmental documentaries and hilarious short films capturing the lighter side of the paddling life.
This year’s great films will feature: Threshers Yak Style, where you’ll hook into a 125-pound thresher shark from a kayak; Source to Sea is expedition kayaker Ram Silwals’ story about fulfilling a dream—1,350 kilometres in 19 days from the high mountains of the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal; the documentary 49 Megawatts takes a close look at the future of British Columbia’s rivers and why the government is fast-tracking hydro projects under the name of green power; follow six Serbian Canadians in Canoeing to the Arctic as they descend the Hood River to the Arctic Sound; Source is an action-packed, epic global kayak adventure down the world’s greatest rivers, including the highest waterfall; Jon Bowermasters’ Birthplace of the Wind is a sea kayak journey to five volcanic Aleutian islands rising straight out of the sea; and Lockapalooza Rodeo, a clever claymation featurette made by 11-year-old Ben Doran.
Admission is $10. For more details call California Canoe & Kayak at
(510) 893-7833.
Location: Jack London Aquatic Center
Date: June 14, 2008
Time: 7 pm to 10 pm
