Metrophobia is the winner of Best Sea Kayaking Film for 2019.
The Paddling Film Festival is now underway at a local kayak shop near you. It presents some of the best paddling films made throughout the world and includes rivers, lakes, oceans, risk takers, wanderers, lifestyle, wild places, adventure, from Greenland to Nepal to Alaska.
Rapid Media, a Canadian paddlesports publishing outfit based in Ontario, has presented the Festival since 2006, inspired by the Banff Festival of Mountain Films. The Film Festival committee has selected a shortlist of 26 films to be shown. Contact the retailers below for times.
Next viewing is March 19 at the Kayak Centre in Wickford, R.I. at 7 p.m. Admission is $12 online/$15 at the show, sponsored by the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT). Here’s the schedule for the Atlantic Coast:
March 20: Buffalo Paddleworks, Buffalo, N.Y.
March 30: Cross Currents Sea Kayaking, Baltimore, MD
March 30: Recreation and Leisure Studies Dept. Ithaca College, N.Y.
March 31: The Villages Canoe & Kayak Club, The Villages, Fla.
April 3: Mountainman Outdoor Supply, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
April 6: Headwaters Outfitters, Brevard, N.C.
April 9: Rivanna River Co., Charlottesville, Va.
April 11: Conn. Sea Kayakers Assn. (ConnYak), Branford, Ct.
April 11: Epic Sports, Bangor, Maine hosted by NFCT
April 11: REI, Framingham, Mass., hosted by NFCT
April 13: Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, Williamsport, Penn.
April 17: Contoocook River Canoe Co., Concord, Mass. Hosted by NFTC
April 25: St. Lawrence Valley Paddlers, Canton, N.Y.
April 25: Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, Vt.
April 27: Outcast Paddlers, Pittsburgh, Penn.
April 27: Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Lake Placid, N.Y.
April 28: Westbrook Supply Co./Narcisse & Assocs., Sandy Springs, Ga.
April 28: The Don CeSar, Saint Pete Beach, Fla.
April 28: Get: Outdoors Paddlesports, Greensboro, N.C.
May 1: Waynesboro Parks and Recreation, Waynesboro, Va.
May 3: TenneSEA Kids 4 Clean Water and Tennessee Valley Canoe Club, Chattanooga, Tenn.
May 31: LL Bean, Freeport, Maine
June 29: Wilderness Voyageurs with the Yough Riverkeeper, Ohiopyel, Penn.
Aug. 18: Wander North Georgia, Clayton, Ga.
Go to www.paddlingfilmfestival.com for more information.