Since 2006, the Paddling Film Festival World Tour has been showcasing the very best paddling films. The World Tour screens in more than 135 cities around the world each year and is also now available to stream online. This is year 16!
Our apologies
These are the old 2020 films, despite the Festival’s website pages all saying 2021. A spokesman told me “we were considering it a soft launch of the virtual side of the film festival …. I’m sorry you’ve had to backtrack with your customers. I hope they understand we are creating and adapting as we go.”
If anyone purchased a ticket and wants a refund, let me know. If you want to watch them, by all means do so. Most of all, if you’ll overlook the debacle and join us in February for the 2021 films, we would be thrilled!
Watch the 2020 Paddling Film Festival online
The 2020 Paddling Film Festival is online. You can watch it anytime, anywhere with a ticket you buy through our link. With each ticket purchased, the festival donates part of the ticket price to us. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations help us generate programming like on-water Penn Paddle trips in 2021.
How to Buy Tickets
Click the green “Get Tickets” button then follow these steps to ensure we a credited for the donation:
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- Click on “buy tickets”
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- Click on “find a host to support near you”
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- Type “Penn Paddle” where it says “Enter address or zip code.”
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- Click “Buy virtual tickets”
3 Packages/Themes to Choose From
There are 3 packages/themes to choose from: adventure, adrenaline and culture. Watch them in the comfort and safety of your home. Watch them when you want to. Rest assured that your ticket generated a donation to a nonprofit. This summer, join us for on-water programming.
Adventure
Adventure—is it calling? Do you want to escape into the world and explore its still secluded rivers or unpaddled seas? To be alone with the water and, perhaps, some close friends or family? These four films will take you to some of the most beautiful places on earth and provide you with all of the inspiration you need for your next paddling trip.
Films:
- Pull of the North (33 min)
- Vitamin Sea (30 min)
- Iceolation (27 min)
- Family Routes (30 min)
Culture
Culture—it is what brings us together. We are rafters, creekers, kayak fishermen and big-wave surfers. We are paddleboarders, whitewater canoeists, and canoe trippers. From all around the world and all walks of life, we share our special love for moving across lakes, rivers, and oceans under our own power. These nine films tell the stories of paddlers and all that paddling can mean to us.
Films:
- The Salad Days (12 min)
- (People) of Water (22 min)
- Dagger Presents: Women of Whitewater (4 min)
- Broken Body of Water (17 min)
- Balkan Rivers Tour 4 | Action for Wild Rivers (4 min)
- The Great Route (10 min)
- Banking on Bailey (10 min)
- Lawai’a, A Family Fishing Fable (6 min)
- The Long River Home (19 min)
Adrenaline
Adrenaline—is that what gets you out on the water? The stomach-churning thrill of dropping onto a big wave or committing to a big line, of paddling into the unknown in the remote wilderness? These five films celebrate great rivers and oceans, life-defining moments, people who know what it really means to be alive, because they are not held back by fear.
Films:
- A Kayaker’s Solo Adventure in India | With Nouria Newman (12 min)
- Skooks (6 min)
- Svaha (28 min)
- The Rio Caqueta (25 min)
- Can’t Ski Vegas (11 min)