The Shuswap Association of Rowing and Paddling and Copper Island Diving present the Eighth Annual Reel Paddling Film Festival at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30 at the Salmar Classic Theatre.
This is an international film tour of more than 25 films presenting the world’s best stand-up paddle surfing, hairy white-water action, sea kayakers exploring remote coastlines, headwaters, canoe expeditions, international river travel films, motivating environmental documentaries, gruelling kayak fishing battles and hilarious short films capturing the lighter side of paddling life.
With your ticket to the Reel Paddling Film Festival, you can enter the Yakima Take It Easy Sweepstakes for a chance to win a complete base rack package.
You will also receive free digital subscriptions to Rapid, Adventure Kayak, Canoeroots and Kayak Angler magazines, a $39 value.
Audiences can expect to see these great films: Rock the Boat – Saving America’s Wildest River, where a local boater insists on seeing the LA (Los Angeles) River as a river again, causing a local controversy that takes on national proportions; two friends on a quest to travel the ultimate river by any means possible in Go Ganges!, epic adventure on the holy and polluted Ganges; That First Glide, a documentary that traces stand-up paddling’s deep roots in early Polynesia and Hawaiian history and how it is rapidly expanding today; and Huck that explores what it means to kayak off of big waterfalls, considering both the risk and rewards of a life driven by free fall.
There will be a cash bar and door prizes at the May 30 festival. Tickets at $8.50 are available at Copper Island Diving at 271B Trans-Canada Hwy. NE. Tickets are $10 at the door.
