Keeping up with Bryan Smith

Posted in Blogroll - by snapdragon, on 05/11/2009

Some exciting developments in general.  Here is what is making the list as of today!

1. I’m out the door to Banff Mountain Film Festival this weekend.  We have two films in this year.  A high lining story we shot for Nat Geo of Robin Avery walking a 120 foot line between towers three and four on the Squamish Chief and the film festival cut of “The Season”.  The Season is a web TV series I have been working on with Fitz Cahall all summer.  It will launch in January 2010.  Here is a quick little tease for it.  The official trailer will be out in the next couple weeks.

http://www.reelwaterproductions.com/Video/seasontease.mov

2. I have a couple of nice articles coming out in both Canoe and Kayak and Kayak Session in the next month.  I wrote a feature on our expedition to the Butze Tidal Rapids for Canoe and Kayak that will be featured in the Buyer’s Guide.  Great placement, as that issue sits on the shelves all year.  Everyone is well represented in that piece.  The second article is a story on our first descent of Dipper Creek last fall in Kayak Session issue #32.  I attached a PDF of that article and below is also a link to a short video that Kayak Session will be using as “Video of the Month”.

http://www.kayaksession.com/kayak-video.php#

3. Production for the National Geographic WOW series has been keeping more than busy.  We have produced 6 stories now to date and we have 4 more scheduled in the coming months.  The most recent development is that they purchased the Bay of Fundy footage from Eastern Horizons and also the footage from the Butze Tidal Rapids to run a piece on tidal race sea kayaking.  We are also going to be shooting another whitewater kayaking story in the next couple weeks on Cody Howard.  This is going to be a big series for Nat Geo that launches in summer 2010 and Reel Water will have a story in every episode.  Dream come true!

4. The Kamchatka Project.  This is the big expedition I am working on for 2010.  We are a week away now from finding out if we will recieve an expedition grant from Nat Geo.  Overall lots coming together, as we have already raised over $15,000 for the project.  Please have a look at the website and project.  We are telling a great story as well as putting together another unbelievable kayaking expedition.

http://www.kamchatkaproject.org

5. Eastern Horizons seems to still be alive and well.  Sales are still strong and it was selected for the Kendall Mountain Film Festival, which is the UK equivilant of Banff.