A Return to the Silver Screen
The International Fly Fishing Film Festival is very excited to be bringing its audience back into theaters, presenting on the silver screen, for the upcoming tour. It has been far too long since the IF4 audience gathered as a community to celebrate friendship, fly-fishing stories and stoke.
This January the festival will kick off in Seattle to a sold-out audience, one of over a hundred screenings planned for North America and around the world; all featuring a stunning line-up of official selections that will take audiences on jaw-dropping fly-fishing adventures.
Among the films with official selection designation status:
• Caddis Magic, by Phil Tuttle and Gilbert Rowley: a film about the hope that new techniques will yield success, that bugs will hatch and trout will rise.
• A Fly-fishing Refugee, by Brian Kelly: the story of Mariusz Wroblewski and the discovery of the true reason wild rivers figure so prominently in the pursuit of freedom.
• Four Weeks of Daylight, by Fly Fishing Nation: Join the exploration to Russia’s Kola Peninsula and get an inside look at the Lumbovka and Kachkovka rivers.
• Home Water, by Ryley Leboe: Home Water follows a professional skier and lifelong outdoorsman as he travels back to his childhood home in search of trophy rainbows.
Others include Out West, a Brian O’Keefe bass odyssey; Casting Maya, Palometa on the fly; A Season in the South, remote rivers of New Zealand; Flat Out, exploring Pacific and Indian Ocean saltwater flats and Into Blue, an adventure for hard-fighting fish off the coast of Northern Australia.
The International Fly Fishing Film Festival is the world’s leading fly-fishing film event. IF4 consists of films produced by professional filmmakers from all corners of the globe and showcases the passion, lifestyle, and culture of fly fishing. Created by fly anglers for fly anglers, it is the gathering place of the fly-fishing community and a celebration of friendship, fly-fishing stories and stoke.
IF4™ 2022 Official Selections
Filmmaker: Capture Adventure Media
Caddis Magic
Film Overview: Join seasoned filmmakers, Phil Tuttle and Gilbert Rowley, for an unbelievable fly-fishing story about a day so magical that it will forever be burned into the memory of all who see it. A film that will cause you to need to go fishing. Caddis Magic is a film about hope; the hope that new techniques will yield success, that bugs will hatch, trout will rise and deliver an experience that can only be defined as unbelievable.
Filmmaker: Fly Fishing Nation
Four Weeks of Daylight
Film Overview: The Kola Reserve has recently gathered a cadre of professional fly-fishing pioneers on a mission to determine whether rumors of the existence of two phenomenal, lost and completely private Atlantic Salmon fisheries on the northern coast of the Kola Peninsula in Russia were true. Adding to the intrigue and speculation is the fact that both rivers flow north into the Barents Sea at a point only slightly southeast of the trophy-laden Yokanga and to the northwest of the prolific Ponoi. They are dead-center in the heart of a region famous for trophy-sized Atlantic salmon, numbers of grilse, and large fall run Atlantics. The rivers are completely private and have been designated catch-and-release, fly fishing only fisheries that will remain shielded from poaching, commercial harvest, and exploitation. Join the exploration team to the Kola Peninsula and get a glimpse of the secret of their craft and a first inside look of the Lumbovka and Kachkovka rivers.
Filmmaker: Todd Moen Creative
Out West
Film Overview: Join internationally renowned fly angler, Brian O’Keefe, for a smallmouth bass adventure in the American West. Big vistas, responsive bass, top water action and a recycled motorcycle all contribute the success of this day on the water.
Filmmaker: Pure Films
Casting Maya
Film Overview: Casting Maya tells the story about the world-famous Ascension Bay that is located on the peninsula of Yucatan/Mexico. The Sian Ka’an biosphere reservation is known for its richness in gamefish like Tarpon, Permit, Bonefish, Snook and many more. Travel to Punta Allen, a small fishing village also known as the permit capital of the world, with the goal of catching a Palometa on the fly.
Filmmaker: Wilderness Lens
A Season in the South
Film Overview: A Season on the South follows a few friends on a season of fly fishing through the different regions of New Zealand’s South Island, exploring remote and pristine back country rivers accessed by travelling on foot, mountain bike and pack raft.
Filmmaker: Mick Guthrie
Flat Out
Film Overview: The Stimmies Awards 2021 Anglers Choice Winner, FLAT OUT weaves DIY footage from years of exploring Australia’s Pacific and Indian Ocean saltwater flats, with an exploratory adventure to Sudan’s untouched Red Sea thrown in the mix, to challenge and reimagine fishing film genre. The award-winning film reconceptualises fly fishing in eight minutes of high energy, boundary-pushing, thought-provoking, life-long memory-banking. It is a visual documentation of what drives us. Don’t blink as we take you on an eclectic and radical new saltwater fly-fishing experience.
Filmmaker: FOSH
Into Blue
Film Overview: The crew from FOSH is familiar with skinny-water, weed-beds and trout. But it’s a first as they take a trip up to the salt of Far North Queensland. Wading and wandering the flats while watching for a flash as the rain buckets in from every angle. Hold on tight as this group of friends take you on a new adventure for hard-fighting fish.
Filmmaker: Brian Film
A Fly-fishing Refugee
Film Overview: Pressured out of Poland as a dissident in the early 1980s, Mariusz Wroblewski set out for freer territory, with his family, a yearning for wild rivers, and not much else. Four decades later, he’s become a conservationist and advocate for wild rivers – and discovered the true reason rivers figure so prominently in his life.
Filmmaker: Ryley Leboe
Home Water
Film Overview: Home Water follows professional skier and lifelong outdoorsman Riley Leboe as he travels back to his childhood region of British Columbia. Connecting with his brother Jess, they share an unforgettable fishing adventure, realizing their Home Water holds opportunities to create new anglers and resource advocates in a sustainable way. In addition, they seek out the trophy rainbow trout the region is famous for.
Website: www.flyfilmfest.com.
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