Thanks to everyone that has attended the film festival in Melbourne and Tasmania this year, every show has been a sell out and the support has been fantastic. It has been great to play the shows in cinemas and give the full big screen experience.
West Melbourne Show
Launceston Show
Hobart Theatre 1
Hobart Theatre 2
Cheers Nick Reygaert
Gin-Clear Media
Halfway through the 2009 RISE tour and things have been going along very well. We have definitely noticed an increase in attendance across the board with a fair number of sell out shows so far.
We have the two Melbourne shows next week and already the West Melbourne show is sold out and the East Melbourne show is filling fast. The three Tasmanian shows are also selling extremely well with Hobart already very close to a sell out. It certainly will be a proud moment for us to screen The Source - Tasmania to full houses in Devonport, Launceston and Hobart.
See you on the road!
Nick Reygaert
Once again the Auckland Show of Rise Fly Fishing Film Festival pulled a great crowd. We moved venues this year to the larger and more user friendly Academy Cinema, located underneath the Auckland Public Library. This was the first HD show of the film tour and to our knowledge the first fishing film festival to project in High Definition. Exciting stuff for us!
The crowd was the biggest that we have played to in Auckland in the four years since the festival inception. Almost 200 fly fishers lapped up the footage from films shot in India, USA, Tasmania and Canada.
We have just finished our first two shows of Rise Fly Fishing Film Festival 2009, Dunedin and Christchurch were fantastic events with sell out shows at both venues. The packed houses lapped up the four movies on offer with the crowd favourites being Raising The Ghost and The Source - Tasmania.
Auckland tomorrow night also gives every indication of being a sell out. Auckland will also be the first HD show on the tour and also to our knowledge the first HD fishing film festival show in the world. Very exciting stuff!
That’s right the Brisbane Show is now 100% full. We are, however, hoping to play another night to accommodate the people that have missed out. Please send an email to events@gin-clear.com to express your interest
Hi all Brisbanites
The Rise Fly Fishing Film Festival - Brisbane Show is almost sold out! We have 9 seats left, which is fantastic for us, but with over 6 weeks to go we fear that many of you that have regularly attend in past years will miss out. We do have an option to upgrade to a larger cinema but it is one that needs to be made well in advance and one we can’t do until we fill the one we have booked now.
If you go to the website Gin-Clear Media in the next few days and the tickets are sold out please send an email to events@gin-clear.com to lodge your interest in tickets and this will enable us to move to the larger cinema. Looks like it’s going to be an amazing show.
Nick Reygaert
Gin-Clear Media
http://www.gin-clear.com
Gin-Clear Media in association with Flylife magazine presents Rise - Fly Fishing Film Festival 2009 to be touring through Australia & NZ in May/June.
We have just released the tickets for about half the shows on the film tour of NZ & Australia, the rest will follow in a few days time as we get confirmation back from venues. “The Source - Tasmania” will be the feature movie of the film tour as well as the best bits from a host of other quality productions including Drift, Raising The Ghost and Kamkatcha. Tickets can be bought online at http://www.gin-clear.com. Pre-purchasing tickets is strongly suggested as the shows often sell out and people can miss out at the door.
Australian Dates
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - West Melbourne Show
Sun Theatre Cinema
Monday, June 15th, 2009, 7.00-9.00pm
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Sydney Show
7.00-9.00pm Tuesday, June 2nd
Palace Norton Street Cinema
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Melbourne Show
June 17th, 20097.00-9.00pm
Classic Cinema
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Hobart Show
The State Cinema
Wednesday, June 24th, 8.30-10.30pm
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Brisbane Show
Dendy Portside Cinema
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009, 7.00-9.00pm
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Devonport Show
Mersey Yacht Club
Friday, June 19th, 2009, 7.30-9.30pm
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Launceston Show
8.30-10.30pm Monday, June 22nd 2009,
Village Cinema,
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Sunshine Coast Show
Nambour Lind Lane Theatre
Monday, May 18th, 2009, 7.30-9.30pm
NZ Dates
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Dunedin Show
Academy Cinema
Monday, May 11th, 7.30-9.30pm
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Christchurch Show
Tuesday, May 12th, 6.45-8.45pm
Rise : Fly Fishing Film Festival - Auckland Show
Thursday, May 14th, 2009, 8.30-10.30pm
Academy Cinema
More dates and venues to follow in the next few days. Look forward to seeing you all on the road.
Tickets and more information at http://www.gin-clear.com
Nick Reygaert
Gin-Clear Media
events@gin-clear.com
After a solid couple of weeks pouring over masses of footage, we have managed to put a couple of trailers together.
Trailer
Making Of..Featurette
I’m very happy with how they have turned out especially with the new HD viewer on You Tube. I think they give a good indication of how good the finished movie will be. Within a few days of posting them to You Tube they have gone close to 1000 views each!
We have just returned from the final stage of filming for the upcoming feature film The Source - Tasmania. For a welcome change the weather was very kind to us and we managed to get five consecutive blue sky days in the Western Lakes region, a rare occurrence indeed.
Blue sky days are critical in the Western Lakes because it enables anglers to sight fish dry flies to the large cruising brown trout that region is famous for. Quite often the action is at very close quarters with barely a rod length between the angler and fish, heart pounding stuff. We also got some great footage of large tailing trout, up to 7 pounds, being stalked and finally landed.
Whilst visiting Hobart we called in to visit Greg French, the well known author and adventurer. We filmed a long interview with Greg that will form the backbone of the movie. Greg was an amazing interviewee and told some absolutely cracking stories.
We are now in the process of editing the Trailer and Featurette for the movie. Both of these will be available shortly as free downloads from the Gin-Clear Media site. For those that are wondering, a Featurette is an introduction to the movie including behind the scenes action and interviews as well as footage from the main movie. This is a first for Gin-Clear Media and we are excited to be able to provide it as a free download to the lead up to the release of the full length 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 2009, the largest single fly fishing event in the Southern Hemisphere.
We have moved onto the Western Lakes section of filming for the upcoming movie ‘The Source - Tasmania’. Weather has been pretty harsh so far with 3 days of snow, 1 day of solid rain and 1 day of sunshine.
But anyone who has fished the Western Lakes will know that is ‘par for the course’ in this part of the world. We have still caught plenty of fish, keeping the camera dry has been the difficult part.