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Our Featured Guests – Meet the people behind the films!
Tim Romano - Cast Member - CO2LD WATERS
At the end of the 2014 fishing season, five respected fly fishermen – Craig Mathews of Blue Ribbon Flies, Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia, Steve Hemkens of Orvis, Tim Romano of Angling Trade and Todd Tanner of Conservation Hawks – came together to fish for wild trout and share their thoughts on angling and climate change.
CO2LD WATERS was shot in Montana in October, 2014. It celebrates the joy and passion of fly fishing, and educates anglers on the threat we face from global warming. The film, which is a collaboration between Conservation Hawks and the cinematic team at Conservation Media, focuses on our responsibility to protect cold, clean waters and healthy landscapes, and to stand up for future generations of Americans.
Scott Thompson - Writer/Director - Breaking Through: The Story of Larry Fivecoats
Larry Fivecoats served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. In that time, Larry was involved in over 150 firefights and witnessed very heavy casualties. When he returned from war, he found himself struggling with the lasting symptoms of PTSD and depression, and began to contemplate suicide. Then Larry was introduced to Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing.
Russ Schnitzer - Producer/Director - Wild Fish Works: Oregon Coast
Wild salmon and steelhead are important to more than just anglers. They represent significant social, cultural and economic ties up and down the Oregon coast. Over the past year, Alan Moore and I worked to explore a few different examples of these connections. Wild Fish Works: Oregon Coast is the result. We hope that angling and non-angling viewers will consider their own connections to wild fish where they live, and explore the unique ways these fish manifest themselves across regions, communities and landscapes.
Wild Fish Works’ message is non-political and positive: where people, businesses, communities, conservation and landowners work together, Oregon’s wild salmon, steelhead and trout heritage WORKS. Notably, the specification of “wild” fish in this context is NOT an anti-hatchery statement; rather, we call for more focus on the attainability and importance of conserving the wild fish reserves we still have, and the positive returns that even small investments in wild fish conservation can bring for Oregon. This is the “how” of Wild Fish Works.
Agriculture and ranch lands, and other resource-dependent businesses don’t need to change hands, change operations dramatically, or become outdoor recreation playgrounds for the urban crowd to have wild fish. They can stay largely the same with wild fish using them, and perhaps even increase in value and pay quality-of-life dividends for people willing to welcome the fish. The fish pretty much take care of the rest.
