The mission of all the paddlers in the Adrenaline Program is clear—we must enjoy, protect and preserve our rivers, lakes and oceans for future generations. Watch all ten of the films in the Adrenaline Program 2024 for two hours and 20 minutes of inspiring and thought-provoking storytelling from people who paddle with purpose, passion, and a deep reverence for the environment.
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From the Rio Pusuno in the Amazon rainforest to Ontario’s Temagami wilderness, and the emerald waters of Slovenia’s Soča, what stands out in the award-winning paddling films of Adrenaline 2024 is the commitment of river warriors.
Franklin, the winner of Best Documentary Film 2024, is an inspiring example of the power of nonviolent resistance to bring about lasting change to protect a world-heritage-listed national park from being destroyed in the early 1980s.
Winner of Best Environmental Film, Rio Pusuno: Meet The Community presents the struggle of the community that depends on the Rio Pusuno as the lifeblood of people, animals and flora in the Amazon. As the river is threatened by dams, its defenders must come to it’s rescue.
Bad River II follows Beau Miles as he packrafts a river so polluted by acid mine runoff that the locals refer to it as “pumpkin soup.” While, the Best Short Film brings us a more lighthearted approach to environmentalism in Whatever Floats Your Goat—showing it’s possible to live in a Sprinter van with two goats, three chickens, a dog and a packraft.
The mission of all the paddlers in the Adrenaline Program is clear—we must enjoy, protect and preserve our rivers, lakes and oceans for future generations. Watch all ten of the films in the Adrenaline Program 2024 for two hours and 20 minutes of inspiring and thought-provoking storytelling from people who paddle with purpose, passion, and a deep reverence for the environment.
- Bad River: Rafting The Most Polluted River In Australia - 22:19
- Driving Sweep - 10:10
- Whatever Floats Your Goat - 06.32
- Franklin - 32:00
- Paddle Tribal II : Bring The Salmon Home - 05:57
- Save Solace - 11:11
- Rods, Rolls and Reality on the Soča - 06.05
- Rio Pusuno: Meet The Community - 26:17
- There's Good in Everything - 03:52
- The River of Sorrows - 28:33
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Bad River: Rafting The Most Polluted River In Australia
Deep within a midlife adventure crisis, Beau Miles finds himself in Tasmania descending a sickly orange, biologically dead river the locals call pumpkin soup. After 100 years of runoff from a mine, the Queen River is considered the most polluted river in Australia. Seeking out places that aren't always the prettiest, wildest or biggest, Miles' offbeat adventure stories entertain and inspire.
Directors: Beau Miles
Producers: Jodi Evans
Driving Sweep - Winner of Best Rafting Film Sponsored AIRE
Few river guides ever get the chance to drive Idaho’s iconic sweep boat. Driving Sweep follows Katie Veteto as she learns how to “drive sweep” down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. She’s learned the rapids and the river. Now, she learns how to drive a 4,000-pound sweep down steep, rocky rapids.
Director and Producer : Gregory Cairn
Rafting category sponsored by AIRE
Whatever Floats Your Goat - Winner of Best Short Film 2024
Nico lives in her Sprinter van with two goats, three chickens and a dog. Spend a day with Nico goat-packing a raft up to a high mountain lake in this quirky short film. Take a dive into her lifestyle, the goats’ personalities, and Nico’s deeper mission to use her unique lifestyle for sustainability education.
Director & Producer: Jack Lewis Elder
Franklin - Winner of Best Documentary Film 2024
An eighth-generation Tasmanian and environmentalist, Oliver Cassidy embarks on a life-changing solo rafting trip down the famous Franklin River in the remote Australian rainforest. He retraces his late father’s 14-day expedition to attend the blockade that saved a World-Heritage-listed national park from being destroyed in the early 1980s. Narrated by Hugo Weaving, Franklin is an inspiring example of the power of non-violent direct action to bring about lasting change.
Director: Kasimir Burgess
Producers: Chris Kamen, Oliver Cassidy
Category sponsored by: Canadian Canoe Museum
There's Good In Everything - Winner of Best Whitewater Film 2024
Join whitewater legend Aniol Serrasolses while he kayaks the rivers of Chile. In this short whitewater film, Aniol shows us how mindset on the river sets paddlers apart and allows us to find the good in everything.
Director: Gonzalo Robert Parraguez, Juan Garcia
Producer: Aniol Serrasolses
Best Whitewater category sponsored by: Ottawa Valley Tourist Association
Save Solace
An environmental group embarks on a canoe trip to investigate the construction of a new logging road set to dissect the Solace Wildlands, the last unprotected and roadless forest in Ontario's Temagami wilderness.
Director & Producer: Matt Steeves
Rods, Rolls and Reality on the Soča - Winner of Best Fishing Film 2024
Swapping paddles for rods, this crew of kayakers attempts to learn how to put the hook in the right spot. Under the emerald waters of Slovenia's Soča River hides an endemic trout, creating both a classroom and a playground for misadventure.
Director: Rok Rozman, Rožle Bregar
Producers: Leeway Collective
Rio Pusuno: Meet the Community - Winner of Best Environmental Film 2024
Ecuador is well-known amongst whitewater kayakers as a paradise. Generations of Ecuadorians like Diego Robles have found their life’s passion in paddling and guiding the rivers in their backyard. But a few months after Robles found his favorite river, he found excavators in the river building a dam and diversion that would dry up the Rio Pusuno. He had no idea how bad the situation was until he met the local community.
Director & Producers: Ben Stookesberry, Willie Henkel
Best Environmental Film sponsored by: The Safer Paddling Campaign
Paddle Tribal II : Bring The Salmon Home
After a successful summer program in 2022, the Paddle Tribal Waters initiative welcomes a new cohort of Indigenous youth into their beginner kayaking program.
Director: Rush Sturges
Producers: Weston Boyles
The River of Sorrows
River runners examine how the Dolores River is a flashpoint of environmental injustice and societal opportunity, how mismanagement and politics threaten Colorado’s undiscovered canyon country and the integrity of the entire river basin.
Director: Cody Perry, Ben Kraushaar,
Producers: Rica FultonJohn Weisheit
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