International Fly Fishing Film Festival

The 2023 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is coming to Bend on September 28, featuring 10 short and feature-length films. This event will benefit the Deschutes Redbands Trout Unlimited, which currently has over 400 members dedicated to working with all organizations in the area to improve the Upper Deschutes Watershed.  These goals are rooted in our desire to conserve, protect, restore and advocate for Central Oregon coldwater fisheries and the watersheds that support them. The International Fly Fishing Film Festival or IF4 is an inclusive and far-reaching fly-fishing film event. Consisting of short and feature-length films produced by professional filmmakers from all corners of the globe, the IF4 showcases the passion, lifestyle, and culture of fly fishing. The films have captured the attention of anglers around the world. 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.