River & Ocean Film Festival: Film Archives
The following is a list of all the films presented at the festival, by year. When available, links are provided to the videos and information about the the film producers.
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2020 (Online)
- Episode 1 (watch it here) included:
- When Goats Fly, by Eliza Goode and Olympic National Park**
- Cold Water Connection, by North Fork Studios and the Wild Salmon Center
- The Power of Kelp, by Paul Hillman and Puget Sound Restoration Fund
- Episode 2 (watch it here) included:
- Coast as Sentinel: Tribal Communities at the Forefront of Ocean Change, by Sam Kleinfinger and Washington Sea Grant*
- Coho Fight Club, by David Hahn
- Summer Backpacking at Naturebridge, by Modoc Stories and Naturebridge
- Stories from the Blue: Million Waves Project, by Silver Fir Media and NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries
- Episode 3 (watch it here) included:
* Best in show by audience polling
**Runner-up best in show by audience polling
2019
- Fresh and Salty, by the youth of the Olympic Theater Arts Children’s Theater***
- A Sustainable Way Forward for Fish and Fisherman, by North Fork Studios
- The Science of Surface Slicks, by Open Boat Films
- Under the Log, by David Hahn
- Plastic Free Salish Sea, by Carl Davis and the San Juan County MRC**
- The Other Side of the Screen, by John Gussman**
- Stories from the Blue: Todd Fishcher, by the National Marine Sanctuary Program
- The Passage, by Days Edge Productions*
- Thunder Road, by Quileute Natural Resources and the USDA
- Urchin Mob, by Dave Forcucci at Studio Sea
- Three Crabs, 5 Salmon, 30 Partners, by John Gussman
- Salish Sea Wild: The Risky Business of Saving Seabirds, by Bob Friel and the SeaDoc Society
- The Salmon Coast, by North Fork Studios
* Best in show by audience polling
**Runner-up best in show by audience polling (tie)
***Special pre-festival showing
2018
- National Volunteer Week: Coastal Clean-up 2017
Eliza Goode/Olympic National Park - The Spawning Dance
David Hahn - Blue Carbon
Ben Drummond and Sara Steele - Brothers*
Randy Kerr - Hear Our Olympics
NPCA/Spruce Tone Films LLC - Under the Sound (Student Entry)
Rosi Hristova and Lana Hassan/Cherry Street Films - Love Story: Sinking Feeling
CNN/Facebook - 2017 Clean Water Classic
Northfork Industries/Surfrider Foundation - Frankenfish: A Farmed Atlantic Salmon Story
Annie Crawley - Semper Paratus
John Gussman/Doubleclick Productions - Melting Stars
KGP Films - Thinking Like A Scientist**
Plumb Productions - Stories From The Blue: Quinault Indian Nation
NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries - How Boaters and Anglers Can Protect Spawning Salmon***
Brendan Wells/Mountain Mind Collective
* Best in Show by Audience Polling
** Best in Show Runner Up by Audience Polling
*** Online only. This film was admitted but not screened at the event
2017
- Salmon in Taft Creek
Doubleclick Productions - Sonic Sea (18-minute Director’s Cut)*
NRDC/IFAW - Not Just Chemistry
EarthEcho International
- Awesome Ocean
edeos digital education - SHARE: The White Salmon River
Mountain Mind Collective - Clean Water Classic 2016
Northfork Industries - Rockfish Recompression: The Music Video
John Dutton Productions - The Coho Are Coming
David Hahn - Olympic Coast Clean-up
Washington CoastSavers - Pteropods: Swimming Snails of the Sea
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Message in a Bottle**
Ikkatsu Project/Ken Campbell - Secret Life of Rivers
Leaping Frog Films
*Best in Show by Audience Polling
**Best in Show Runner Up by Audience Polling
2016
- Willapa Bay Oysters
Stony Point Pictures - The Smell of Cedars Steepend in Rain
Eliza Goode - Solving Stormwater
The Nature Conservancy - Lost and Found
Frank Films - Buried in Sawdust for 50 Years
Leaping Frog Films - A Dam Problem
Wahoo Films - Hiking Third Beach
Cache Mcphie - Coho Spawning at Eagle Creek Springs 2
David Hahn - Dance of the Microbeads
Sarah Tucker - Debris
National Film Board of Canada - Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup — The West Coast Trail
Vancouver Aquarium - Bristol Bay and UW Fisheries
John Gussman - High Hopes — The Future of Dungeness Crab
Benjamin Drummond and Sara Steele
2015
- Mouth of the Columbia River Benthic Impact Study 2014
Curtis Roegner, NOAA - You Matter 2
David Hahn - Quileute Natural Resources Department
Nicole Rasmussen, Quileute Natural Resources Department - Parkers Top 50 favorite things about Northwest Rivers
Amy Souers-Kober, American Rivers - Inches of Snow and Tide
Stephani Gordon/Open Boat Films - Lib Tech’s Surfing and Traditions
Tim Standford/Home School Films - The Whale Story
Tess Martin - Americans on the Frontiers of Climate Change: Oyster Farmers
Benjamin Drummond/ Sarah Joy-Steele - Combing the Coast
Surfrider Foundation, Vancouver Island Chapters - Evergreen State Stouts: Episode 2
Mountain Mind Collective - Dichotomies of the Olympic Peninsula
Scott Ennis - Discover Your Olympic Coast
SeaLife Productions
2014
- The Wild Olympic Coast
Florian Graner at Sea Life Productions - Tides of Change
Silver Fir Media - Marine Spatial Planning on the WA Coast
Swell Productions - This is Where I Belong
Stony Point Pictures - Coming Back, Restoring the Skokomish Estuary
North40 Productions - Plastic Shores (trailer)
LMV Productions
Cape Flattery Beach Clean-up
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Calling Filmmakers
If you are interested in submitting a film for the 3rd Annual River and Ocean Film Festival, please read the following criteria and instructions:
Entries can be submitted in electronic or DVD formats and must have relevance to natural or human dimensions of the watersheds or marine ecosystems of the west end of the Olympic Peninsula. Film durations must be less than 20 minutes (total, including credits) and may include standalone segments of longer works.
Please include the following written information:
- The entry’s title, director and producer
- A brief (250 words maximum) description of the entry, its running time and its relevance to the natural or human dimensions of the watersheds or marine ecosystems of the west end of the Olympic Peninsula
- The year produced
All entries will be reviewed by the event’s organizing committee, and selections will be made on a rolling basis. The submittal deadline is March 18, 2016.
Please send DVD entries to:
- Dr. Ian Miller Washington Sea Grant 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd. #82 Port Angeles, WA 98362
To arrange for a file transfer using alternative electronic formats, or for further information, please send email to Ian Miller, immiller@uw.edu.
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