After a month of non-stop touring the Australian leg of the RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010 is coming to a close. We have seen some great crowds turning up to get their winter fly fishing fix before the season opens in a few weeks.
Hobart premiered last night and, despite a deluge of much needed rain, the bumper crowd’s enthusiasm could not be dampened.
We’ve had some great feedback over the last few weeks including this from Rob Sloane, Editor of Flylife Magazine.
“Great night at the film festival last night. Thanks to Nick Reygaert and his team for bringing the show to Hobart. The 240 seat theatre was packed. I really enjoyed the films and think Nick deserves our thanks for sharing his passions for fly fishing, film making and wild places.” Rob Sloane
We are in the final stages of finishing The Source – New Zealand , all that is left to do is colour correct and mixed down the audio. If all goes well we expect to have DVDs for sale by 15th June. Very exciting for us, the movie looks amazing by the way! In the meantime please enjoy this behind the scenes featurette on You Tube.
The amazing things is 90% of the footage in this featurette (including the 9.5 & 10.5 pound trout!) didn’t make the final cut of the main movie which should give you some idea of how good the footage in the main movie is.
What do these four things have in common? Well, we just returned from a fly fishing & filming adventure that will form the grand finale section of The Source – New Zealand. It involved a long jet boat ride along the Southern Coast of Fiordland, an area that has gone underneath the trout fishing radar for some time, to an isolated lake. On the way there we managed to dive for some crayfish, getting a great feed in just under an hour of free diving.
The reason for going at this time of year was to try to intercept the brown trout as they ran the lake tributaries to spawn. Our timing was spot on! The best fly fishing spot we found was a tiny, crystal clear freestone creek that had superbly conditioned brown trout to 6 pounds. It will make for the perfect end to the film.
Huge thanks to Vaughan Reynolds of South Coast Jet for getting us there and back in one piece and for showing us one of the most unique areas in the South Island.
Gin-Clear Media is a New Zealand based company that specializes in producing high-quality, adventure fly fishing movies. It also runs Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010, the largest single fly fishing event in the Southern Hemisphere.
We are officially releasing tickets for RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010 tonight. We have almost all the dates and venues of the tour locked in and tickets for sale. Its a big tour this year with six shows in NZ before we jump across the ditch to start the Australian leg. The most exciting development this year is that 95% of the shows will be screened in High Definition.
“The Source – New Zealand”, the follow up to The Source – Tasmania, will premier at the festival and also act as the feature movie. I’m sure a lot of people are keen to get a look at Mad Phil Media’s “Heads and Tails” permit movie from Broome. This will also have its Southern hemisphere premier at the festival and the full length feature will be available on DVD too. We also have films from RA Beattie – “Off The Grid”, a follow up to the popular “Nervous Water”, and Jamie Howard with “BASS : The Movie”. We finish the evening with a snippet of “The Source – Iceland”
Tickets for a handful of the larger shows have been on sale for about 10 days, interestingly both Brisbane and West Melbourne are half sold already! If you are keen to attend either of these I would get in quick as they are on track to sell out weeks before the show. Other shows that sold out last year – Dunedin, Christchurch, Auckland, Launceston and Hobart so it is advised to get your ticket before the night for these shows to avoid disappointment.
We launched the New Zealand fly fishing movie teaser today. Check it out
If you have time please rank and leave comments. Maybe even send on to your fishing mates
We worked long and hard to pull this one off but we’re super stoked on how it came out.
Pretty unique I reckon. Full length movie out in July.
Nick R
Gin-Clear Media is a New Zealand based company that specializes in producing high-quality, adventure-driven fly fishing movies. It also runs Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010, the largest single fly fishing event in the Southern Hemisphere.
We are excited to announce that tickets for RISE Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010 are officially on sale at the Gin-Clear Media site. The film tour kicks off in mid-July in Dunedin and will then wind its way around NZ to Australia eventually finishing in Darwin in late August. This will be the most extensive tour of the festivals five year history, taking in more than 27 shows across the two countries.
The show tickets that have been released first are the events that have traditionally sold out the quickest ; Sydney, Melbourne, West Melbourne, Hobart, Launceston, Canberra and Brisbane. So if your waiting to get your ticket at the door for these shows history would indicate that getting your ticket in advance will avoid disappointment. Judging by interest generated so far we are expecting more sell out shows than ever before.
This year we have an electronic ticketing system in place for the Australian shows, this works exactly like the eticket systems used by the airlines and merely needs you to bring a print out to the cinema to claim your tickets. This will enable a quicker and more efficient service on our behalf as well as reducing our carbon footprint.
The films we will be touring with are an exciting blend of exotic and local productions, with many making their big screen debut on the tour. Gin-Clear Media’s The Source – New Zealand is the feature movie of the festival and as such will be played in its entirety.
The line up
The Source – New Zealand, from Gin-Clear Media – Unbelievable dry fly action from NZ
Heads or Tails, from Mad Phil Media – Permit from Western Australia
Off The Grid, from Beattie Outdoors – Mexico salt water and USA Steelhead
The Source – Iceland, from Gin-Clear Media – Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout from Iceland
BASS – The Movie, from Jamie Howard – American Black Bass from California
Gin-Clear Media is a New Zealand based company that specializes in producing high-quality, adventure-driven fly fishing movies. It also runs Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010, the largest single fly fishing event in the Southern Hemisphere.
If ever there has been a summer to make a New Zealand fly fishing movie the last 12 weeks have been it. The weather has been fantastic and the fish have been in superb condition thanks to a mouse plague that happened earlier in the year.
Once we saw the size of some of the fish being caught we made the decision to begin filming The Source – New Zealand immediately, a full 12 months earlier than planned.
In the end it was an easy decision, this summer is basically a once in a decade chance to film fish of epic proportions. It was a good choice to start when we did. It is all about timing for some things — like meeting deadlines, for example, or purchasing airline tickets and sending job applications. The same applies for filming, especially in nature. You need to go with your instinct, and at the right time! The filming began with a trip with big fish hunter Silvio. The timing of the trip was paramount as we intended it to coincide with the first hatch of cicadas.
Big fish tend to go a bit silly when the first of these big insects hits the water and previously hard to catch fish will totally lose their heads and smash dry flies with the reckless abandon of a fingerling. We got very lucky! We hit our chosen rivers at exactly the right time. The fish were moving up to 3 meters to intercept our cicada imitations. These rivers all had a mouse plague earlier in the year and the fish were carrying an extra 2 to 3 pounds of weight.
In six days fishing on four different rivers we filmed 31 fish of which 23 were over 8lb – three of these were doubles and four were 9.75lb. It was unbelievable! It seems like a dream now. In 17 years of trophy hunting Silvio says he has never seen anything like it. I’m stoked that I was lucky enough to be there with the camera to document it all.
Since then we have filmed massive Rainbows getting caught on dry fly and had some fun stripping mouse flies around for the inevitable explosive takes. Its going to be a pretty good movie.
Gin-Clear Media is a New Zealand based company that specializes in producing high-quality, adventure-driven fly fishing movies. It also runs Rise – Fly Fishing Film Festival 2010, the largest single fly fishing event in the Southern Hemisphere.
We have just returned from Hervey Bay in Australia where we filmed the first segment of our upcoming multi-destination fly fishing film Wanderlust to be released mid-2011. We were very lucky to have Nat Bromhead helping us out, Nat has been a guiding for the last eight years with much of that time spent plying the waters around Hervey Bay, so I was extremely confident that he would find us fish. It was, however, his new boat that really sealed the deal.
Nat recently imported a Hewes Redfisher from the USA and it is perfectly suited to fishing the skinny water. The 18 foot fibreglass flats fishing skiff has a super smooth ride and an incredible draft of 10 inches.
We caught plenty of fish but the highlight of the three days filming was the footage we got of big Golden Trevally tailing in knee-deep water. We sight cast to and caught some cracking travelly. Stay tuned for more on Wanderlust in the coming year.
Gin-Clear Media is a fly fishing multi-media company based in New Zealand whose enterprises include leading websites, feature films, events and exhibitions. For more visit www.gin-clear.com
Gin-Clear Media films have always been well received by the European market, in particular the Scandinavians. It is great then that we now have an official distributor, Karuvaara Flyfishing, selling and shipping our movies from within the European Union.
The principle behind Karuvaara Flyfishing is Toni Karuvaara. We were lucky enough to have Toni along for a couple of weeks during the filming of The Source – Iceland so not only will he be distributing the movies but he will be featuring in them as well. If you own a store in Europe and want to stock our films please get in contact with Toni.
KARUVAARA FLYFISHING
Toni Karuvaara
Phone:
+358 405755977
We have spent the last two weeks in Iceland putting the finishing touches to the film. We were severely hampered by the encroaching winter weather that included days of -4C maximums and frequent snow storms. We were eagerly awaiting a break in the weather so that we could do some aerial filming with a helicopter. Finally the weather did break if only for one afternoon and we charged out to the river to get the shots.
It was a sublime experience as a cameraman to be removed from the limitations of gravity and to float above the river.
A big thanks to Snorri the pilot for keeping us alive, despite some tricky maneuvers, and to the helicopter company Nordurflug for being very professional. If you are in Iceland I can recommend these guys for any kind of helicopter experience be it work or pleasure.
The day after the heli shoot we decided to have one last day of fishing before leaving Iceland. Unfortunately the weather once again turned savage with torrential rain and wind. Not deterred, we headed to our chosen river. While searching for a good pool to start fishing we took a small track through a field. We approached a suspiciously bright green patch of grass and decided to try to charge through it. BIG MISTAKE!
The trusty Defender was stuck above both axles in very odd looking mud. After 4 hours of digging, raising and propping we finally managed to get the car into a position to be able to be dragged out. The local farmer came with his tractor to extract us. He took one look at me covered from head to toe in ‘mud’ and laughed. He took great delight in telling me that the ‘mud’ we were stuck in was actually sheep shit. Life can be a great leveler sometimes.
