Inflatable People

Inflatable People following the participants of the first Swedish Packrafting Roundup in Spring 2016. It is the first Urban Packrafter film to be screened at a major film festival About Inflatable People Inflatable People is an short documentary about a small international community of people that do packrafting - Paddle with small and light inflatable raft called packrafts. In the movie they meet for the very fist time at the first Swedish Packraft Roundup deep in the Swedish forest. They come from all over the world and is often alone about packrafting in their home towns. In the film we follow the Inflatable People on their journey down river and see them paddle - and swim - fierce rapids and drink whiskey around the camp fire. Meet the inflatable people and step into the emerging international packrafting scene in Sweden. With Inflatable People I wanted to give the audience a gaze into the rising packrafting community. I want to show why a group grownup arrange to go into middle of a Swedish boreal forest to paddle rapids in small inflatable dinghies. The making of the film was special to me because it portrait a community which I’m myself is a part of. I'm a inflatable People two and I wanted to give a short and honest portrait about us and the niche outdoor culture that we attend. Awarded with Debutant Prize Inflatable People get selected to participate in the Nordic Adventure Film Festival and was screened in cinemas at Copenhagen and Aarhus. The festival nominated Inflatable People in four categories including Best Danish Movie and the film ended up winning the Debutant Prize. We celebrated with champagne. Read about the film and the Nordic Adventure Film Festival here (in Danish). screenings -at the Nordic Adventure Film Festival 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark. -at the National Paddling Film Festival 2017 in Kentucky, USA. -at the Mancos River Film Festival 2017 in Colorado, USA. -at the Backpacking Light Adventure Film Festival 2017 in Colorado, USA. -is selected for the 2018 Frozen River Film Festival in Winona, Minnesota, USA. Press Inflatable People is filmed at the river Voxnan in the Swedish landscape Hälsingland. A local newspaper Ljusdals-posten did a feature article (in Swedish) about the film and an article about the award. Also Outdoor Training Mag did a Behind the Film article. More about the film Title: Inflatable People Country of production: Sweden / Denmark Filming location: Voxnan River, Hälsingland, Sweden Year of Production: 2016 Duration: 14 minutes Language: English / Swedish Director: Jacob Kastrup Haagensen Filming: Jacob Kastrup Haagensen, Konstantin Gridnevskiy, Cai Koskinen, Henrik Bergquist, Martin Gustafsson, Michael Wzduski & Sven-Erik Ekström Interviews by: Jacob Kastrup Haagensen, Konstantin Gridnevskiy & Henrik Bergquist Production & postproduction: Jacob Kastrup Haagensen Interviews with: Konstantin Gridnevskiy, Jeremie Lemart, Patrick Dormischian, Jacob Kastrup Haagensen, Henrik Bergquist, Ben Philips, Hjelm Nordström & Caj Koskinen Also appearing: Martin Gustafsson, Mikael Andersson, Sven-Erik Ekström & Martin Ward Music: Snake and Jet's Amazing Bullit Band, Elisabeth Like a Dream and Kevin Macleod. Thanks: All participants, Thor Rasmussen, Snake & Jets Amazing Bullit Band, Jeremie Lamart, Elisabeth Like a Dream, Sara Jonsson, Thorne and family, Alpacka Raft, The Deliverance Team, Hikeventures, Injuring Eternity, The Swedish Packrafting Association & Film i Skoven Poster photo: Karl Sandström