ACTION CATEGORY: WINNER

EXTREME KAYAKING
This work courtesy of CBC
Running Time:10 minutes 30 seconds

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CBC producer Ben Aylsworth has made extreme kayaking one of his recreational pursuits, and at Sports Journal's request he took a camera along on a weekend trip to the Moose River in New York. Every fall, when the local power facility releases a large amount of water, the river swells and a wicked turbulence attracts a small, underground group of kayakers from all over Eastern Canada and the U.S. who make an annual trek for adventure.

PLAYBOATING
A film by Ken Whiting
The Heliconia Press
Running Time:30 minutes

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Sequel to the best-selling video 'Play Daze', Playboating is a step-by-step guide to all playboating moves. While following some of the best paddlers in the world through Canada and Chile, novice playboaters will learn the fundamental skills that will let them surf and spin, while competent paddlers will learn to take their paddling to new levels. Highly experienced paddlers are taken to the edge, and shown secrets to all the latest moves.

THE CROCODILE RIVER
A film by Robert Perkins
Running Time:56 minutes 42 seconds

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Join well-known documentary filmmaker Robert Perkins on a 1,000-mile canoe journey in southern Africa down the never before traveled and fabled river - the great, gray, green, greasy Limpopo River.

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In August 2003, author, activist Bob Hunter and legendary guide and artist Hap Wilson travelled down the Bloodvein River, yet another threatened eco-system. While the Bloodvein has remained virtually pristine since our first peoples inhabited its banks some six thousand years ago, it is not mining, logging or hydro projects that place this heritage river in jeopardy, it's global warming. Along the way the expedition witnessed a dramatic drop in water levels and volume, exactly as predicted by climate change scientists.

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One hundred and forty-three years after Powell's epic journey, we are still left struggling to find words to describe the wonders of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. This film presents a poetic cacophony of words and images in an attempt to describe the indescribable.

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Otto, Gino and Josie are the last Inuit elders who know the building secrets of the Netsilingmeot caribou-hunting kayak. A regional kayak built by the Netsilik Inuit (people of the seal). In the summer of 2002, they invited the youth of their hamlet Kugaaruk and several southerners to join them in a remote tundra camp and build one last pair of these most beautiful of all traditional Canadian arctic boats. Their Barrow Lake camp became a successful experiment in the transmission and preservation of a vanishing culture.

ACCEPTABLE RISK?
Outdoor Adventure Education and the
Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy
A film by Bryan Mullan
TV Ontario, Sponsored by Tembec
Running Time:37 minutes

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In June 1978, twelve boys and an adult leader died on a canoe trip on Lake Timiskaming. The tragedy made headlines around the world and cast a shadow over outdoor education programs. What went wrong? What can be learned? And what is acceptable risk for students and parents when committing to an outdoor adventure program? This documentary is a fascinating look at the worst school adventure accident in Canadian history.

FASTER THAN YOU KNOW
A Film by Bernie Levy
Running Time:5 minutes

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Faster Than You Know was shot on a three-day canoe trip in May 2003 on a series of rivers and lakes in Queens County, Nova Scotia. It features three generations of Levy paddlers, including 16-month-old Isaac who was on his first over-nighter and "paddled" whitewater for the first time. David Newland's song gave me a title and completed my "vision".

THE YENISEY RIVER EXPEDITION
A film by Colin Angus
Angus Adventures
Running Time:59 minutes

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Although the Yenisey is the fifth largest river on the planet, it is a mystery to most. In 2001, Ben Kozel, Tim Cope, Remy Quinter and Colin Angus became the first to run this mighty river's full length. Their journey takes them through Mongolia and Siberia and courses through a world of steppeland, boreal forest and tundra. Their film offers an insightful view into the heart of Siberia. Russian Mafia, indigenous Nenets living in tepees and huge rapids weave together to recreate their journey through this haunting land.

AMAZON: SOURCE TO THE SEA
A film by Colin Angus
Angus Adventures
Running Time:57 minutes

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This film follows adventurers Ben Kozel, Scott Borthwick and Colin Angus as they attempt to be the second team to run the Amazon's full length. During the course of their five-month, 7,000 kilometre adventure, the group go thirsty in the desert looking for the source of the Amazon - are pummelled by class VI whitewater and are shot at by Peruvian guerrillas. The film was created on a budget of only two thousand dollars.