VICTOR TO HOST INTERNATIONAL FLY FISHING FILM FESTIVAL

VICTOR, MT – The 2023 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is coming to Victor on Feb. 24 featuring 10 short and feature-length films.

The two hour presentation, screening at Mary Stuart Rogers Performing Arts Center at Victor Schools, 425 4th Ave., will showcase fly fishing films from all corners of the globe. The film presentation is at 7; theatre doors open at 6:30 p.m. General admission is $15.

The event is hosted by the Bitter Root Water Forum.

Each $20 raffle ticket purchased will provide the opportunity to win a full day fly-fishing float with Eddie Olwell of Fishs Eddy O on a Montana river. According to the sponsor, "Trips are catered for all levels of ability, from the raw beginner to the seasoned angler." The prize is valued at $600. The winning raffle ticket will be drawn during the screening. 

For information about this screening along with advance tickets, contact the host at [email protected].

Among the films in the festival are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Damsel, with oversized tiger trout, a prolific damsel fly hatch, and an obscure mountain lake; Of the Sea, brothers explore the elusive Banco Chinchorro off the coast of Xcalak; Jacks, giant trevally attacking from deep ocean water; Father Nature, a guided trip on the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park; A Slam that Saves, four species of bass found only in the Appalachians; and Dollar Dog, Atlantic salmon in Cape Breton's Margaree River.

Others include The Focus, a story of three anglers who revisit a remote mountain stream;

Chesapeake – A Love Letter to a Watershed, the landscapes and environments of a special place;

and Gold Fever, undiscovered water in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

Event attendees can win fly fishing-related prizes and awards from Film Festival

sponsors. One person will be selected winner of the 2023 Grand Prize valued at thousands of

dollars of merchandise.

For information about the film festival, contact [email protected].