Summer is the best time to get excited about fishing right here in Philadelphia, and Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers is available for screenings in your neck of the woods or bend in the river.  Please contact us if you’d like a copy or to schedule a screening.

Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers may be seen on MindTV (Channel 35 in the Philadelphia area) along with Byron Karabatsos’ film 4021 Parkside about the so-called “Microsoft school” on these dates and times:

Saturday
3/21/09
9 PM

Sunday
3/22/09
1 PM

See the entire schedule of broadcast dates and times for Philadelphia Stories 6 here.

The next scheduled screening of Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers is May 8th as part of the River’s Edge program at Scribe Video Center:

Location

See map: Google Maps

As spring beckons, enjoy a program of river stories all from the banks of the Schuylkill and Wissahickon. Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers (2008, 14 min), co-directed by Shannon Kane Meddock, Mike Attie and Andrew Schwalm, is an intimate, funny and touching glimpse into the little known world of urban fishing. When a good day fishing has come and gone, Philadelphia’s waterways yield a bounty far more valuable than the fish themselves. Free the River Park (2008, 15 min) by Evolve Strategies chronicles the protracted fight against CSX Railroad’s effort to block the community access to the Schuylkill River. The doc inspires other groups on how to successfully wage grassroots organizing campaigns to improve and protect their communities. Community organizers from Manayunk reveal their “Precious Place” – the Manayunk Canal. Ann Tegnell and Sharon Mullally’s Knee Deep (2004, 30 min) follows volunteers from the Center in the Park Senior Environment Corps of Germantown who have all taken on the task of sampling and testing water of regional creeks leaving a generation of long-term data they have collected is the joyful legacy of education and commitment to the environment.

The trailer for Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers is now available on YouTube:

We’ll be announcing another public screening shortly.

Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers will have its television premiere on December 25th, followed by encore presentations on the 27th and 28th. MindTV is channel 35 in the Philadelphia region.  Here’s the schedule of Hooked showings:  

Thursday
12/25/08
10 PM

Saturday 
12/27/08
9 PM

Sunday
12/28/08
1 PM

You can watch the whole series of Philadelphia Stories 6 here.  

Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers will be part of the Salon du Festival at the First Person Festival this Thursday, November 13th, right after Okie Noodling 2!  The Festival is at The Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St.  Come at 7pm for Okie Noodling 2 and stay for the Salon du Festival.  We’ll have beer, if that makes a difference.  

You do NOT have to have seen the first Okie Noodling for any of it to make sense.  Here’s the trailer: 

We’re pleased to announce that Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers was awarded the Spirit of Red Hook award a the Red Hook International Film Festival!  And we’re doubly pleased that the award comes with Key Lime Pies from Steve’s Authentic in Red Hook.  (His main site seems to be down, but there’s this and this.)

Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers is going on the road, to Red Hook, Brooklyn!

Hooked will screen as part of the “Cities and Water” Program at the Red Hook Film Festival on Saturday October 11th at 4pm.

Here’s the festival website and Myspace page.

And check out some of the blog coverage so far:

Pardon Me For Asking

Nathan Kensinger Photography (Kensinger is the festival programmer, and clearly a lover of waterfronts!)

Art in Brooklyn

The screening time has not yet been announced.  I’ll update as soon as it is.  Festival website is here.

Festival screenings will take place on October 11 & 12th
at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition’s new screening room,
499 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York.

City Paper has an article this week about Dean Ween’s “Brownie Troop Fishing Show” which is growing in popularity at least in part because it cuts the pretense and production values of many of the existing shows out there:

“Our show is not some dude in a leather motorcycle outfit covered in patches on a bass boat trying to win a $3 million tournament on Lake Ossamwaga somewhere. I love bass fishing; I do a ton of it, but it’s the NASCAR of fishing. Why don’t you just watch Formula One, where the cars are faster and they’re better engineered, rather than watching Jimmy Dale Jackson going around in an oval for 10 million laps? When we fish, we’re getting completely fucking drunk — we catch as much fish as anybody, we actually know what we’re doing, but we’re totally just having a good time.”

The “we” in question is whoever is along for the trip on a day that warrants both fishing and filming. In most cases, that just means Melchiondo and his buddies out on a boat on the Delaware, or surfcasting off a Jersey Shore beach. That may also mean a drunken excursion with Butthole Surfers Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus, who tagged along on the Manasquan River during an off day while touring.

You can see videos of some of their outings and check out a ton of photos here.  They appear to be mostly catch-and-release.