National Paddling Film Festival

30th Edition
		Buffalo Trace Distillery
		Frankfort, Kentucky
		February 22-23, 2013

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2013 Still Image Winner - "Great Falls" by Regina Nicolardi

2013 Winners

Best Professional Documentary (tie)
Congo: The Grand Inga Project by Steve Fisher
The Nomad by Anson Fogel & Skip Armstrong

Best Professional Safety/Instruction
Whitewater Safety by Bruce Jolliffe

Best Professional General Boating
Cascada by Anson Fogel & Skip Armstrong

Best Accomplished Documentary
Currents: The Ottawa River by Mike McKay

Best Accomplished General Boating
Currents: The Creek Race by Mike McKay

Best Amateur General Boating
Free Koontz by Josh & Matt Turner

Best of Show
Congo: The Grand Inga Project by Steve Fisher

Best Still Image
Great Falls by Regina Nicolardi

Brew-Off Winner
Hole Bait IPA by Jeff Kirkner

Chili
Veggie: Cynthia Grimes
Meat (tie): Brent Austin, Leland Davis
Overall (tie): Brent Austin, Leland Davis, Leslie Coble
Chili King: Brent Austin

2013 Distributions

American Whitewater: $6,000.00
Friends of the Cheat: $250.00
Ecuadorian Rivers Institute: $250.00
Mid Klamath Watershed Council: $350.00

2013 NPFF Blog Mentions

Fish Munga

SMAX Brothers

For 31 years the National Paddling Film Festival has been hosting a competition to determine the best in paddle sport videos and images. This competition has provided the paddling community with a fun and profitable event to support American Whitewater and river conservation. In that time, the NPFF has also helped to raise the quality of paddle sport entertainment by providing recognition of talent along with important and useful feedback for the artists who make the show a possibility.

Tickets

Tickets that cover both days of the festival are $25 at the door. Cash or check only.

Children under 12, free.

Advanced tickcts can be purchased online starting early January for $20, a 20% discount.

For online purchases, you will receive an email confirming your ticket purchase and you can pick up your ticket at the door the day of the event. You will not be receiving physical tickets prior to the event.

Schedule - Tentative

Friday
5:00 PM	Doors Open/Beer Starts Flowing/Films Start
7:00 PM	Brew Off Beer Deadline
8:00 PM	Welcome and Guest Host Introduction
8:15 PM	Presentation
9:15 PM	Films Continue
10:45 PM	Wrap up. After Party at the Brick Alley

Saturday
10:00 AM- 2:00 PM	Bourbon Tour on the Hour
11:30 AM	Not-NPFF Race check-in at Elkhorn / AW Acres
1:00 PM	Not-NPFF Race start
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM	Bourbon Tasting
3:30 PM	Films Start
6:30 PM	Chili Cookoff Deadline
9:00 PM	Wrap-up Silent Auction
9:45 PM	Guest Host Presentation
10:45 PM	Awards Ceremony
11:00PM	After Party at the Brick Alley