Wild Fish Slow Food Film Fest

Join Slow Food in the Tetons and Trout Unlimited for a special film festival as part of the 2026 Farm to Fork Festival in The Center Theater!

Wild Fish Slow Food Film Fest
Presented by Loop Tackle and Cox Outdoors

Friday, Oct 2nd 2026 | Doors 5:30 | Films 6:30

Wild Fish Slow Food Film Fest explores the connections between water, fish, community-led conservation, and sustainable foodways. The first half will include local and regional films from the Upper Snake River Basin, from the Snake River Headwaters to the Lower 4 Snake River dams. The second half will feature dam removals in the Klamath River, Atlantic salmon conservation in Iceland, the fight against the Pebble Mine, and indigenous conservation leadership.The family-friendly evening will conclude with a panel discussion of local, regional, and national conservation and food sustainability changemakers. Come for the films and stay for the raffles, door prizes, partner booths, children’s book signing, and food tastings!

If cost is a barrier please use code SLOWFISH100

For more information check here: https://www.jhfarmtofork.com/

Casting competition – grand prize is a Loop Strom Rod 9’6 #7w valued at $1,150!

Local and regional food tastings by:
Pride of Bristol Bay
Lark’s Meadow Farms
Canewater Farms / Gherardo Olive Oil
Red Gold // Bristol Bay
Farmstead Cider

Panelists include:
Steve Kurian, Pride of Bristol Bay
Rafe Rivers, Canewater Farms
Patti Baldes, Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative, Sweetgrass Lodge, and Buffalo Youth Nation Project
Eric Crawford, Trout Unlimited

Lineup of Films

Iconic Rises
Director: A.J. Swentosky / Frogwater Productions
Producers: Jon Klaczkiewicz / Frogwater Productions
Runtime: 16:34
Presenters / Supporters: Friends of the Bridger-Teton National Forest (presenter), Trout Unlimited, Grand Teton National Park Foundation, Snake River Fund, Jackson Hole One Fly, American Rivers, and Frogwater Productions film about our local Snake River cutthroat fishery and water issues.

Description: Told from the perspective of 3rd generation Jackson Hole fly fishing guide Boots Allen, Iconic Rises conveys the reverence the local fly fishing community has for the native Snake River Fine Spotted Cutthroat Trout and the upper Snake River fishery. At a time when climate change, water temperatures, in-stream flows, invasive species, fishing pressure and water management are all having compounding negative effects on many of the West’s wild trout fisheries, these native cutthroat trout are in relatively healthy condition thanks to fortuitous
geographical factors and passionate human efforts. This story celebrates the successful conservation and preservation work of many non-profit and government organizations, while also communicating the need to avoid complacency by proactively addressing some of the fisheries’ looming threats.

Guardians of the Snake: Behind the Scenes: Girl’s Day Out
Director / Producer: Jon Klaczkiewicz / Fish Camp
Runtime: 6:04
Presenters / Supporters: Visit Jackson Hole

Description: During the filming for Guardians of the Snake, an official 2026 Fly Fishing Film Tour selection, the Fish Camp crew got out on the Snake with a trio of highly effective and passionate female guides. Girls Day Out follows Sloane Bergien, Maddie Dittbrender and Katie Finnegan through a golden autumn day on the water where they reflect on their journeys and experiences of being successful fly fishing guides in the Jackson Hole region. Edited as a behind-the-scenes companion to the feature film, this short cut features real laughter, real camaraderie, and a reminder of why this river, and the community built around it, is worth guarding.

Chasing Hatches
Director / Producer: Jon Klaczkiewicz / Fish Camp
Runtime: 16:24
Presenters / Supporters: Henry’s Fork Foundation, The Salmonfly Project

Description: On one of the West’s most iconic rivers, generations of angler observations collide with data-driven science as the Henry’s Fork Foundation and Salmonfly Project work to understand a changing river, and what it will take to protect it for the future. Aquatic insects are the foundation of river ecosystems, yet remarkably little long-term data exists about their populations. Without understanding what’s happening at the bottom of the food web, we risk missing the earliest warning signs of ecological change. Chasing Hatches is a film about the people racing to close that gap, legacy science, new technology, and the anglers, researchers, and rivers caught in between. If the hatches disappear, what does that mean for fly fishing? Jackson premiere!

When Fish Return
Director / Producer: Josh Duplechian / Trout Unlimited
Runtime: 6:55
Presenters / Supporters: Trout Unlimited

Description: For Terry Myers, the future of a free-flowing lower Snake River is about more than fish. It’s about the communities and way of life that depend on them. Told by the people who’ve experienced it firsthand, TU’s inspiring new short film highlights what declining salmon and steelhead returns mean for anglers, families, and communities across the region. Jackson premiere!

Undammed
Director / Producer: Swiftwater Productions
Runtime: 17:19
Presenters / Supporters: Patagonia

Description: After witnessing a massive fish kill on her ancestral home waters, Yurok tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis dedicated her life to reversing the generations-long destruction wrought by the Klamath River dams. Undammed follows her journey to free the Klamath, from testifying before Congress to passing down fishing traditions within her young family. Now that the Klamath dams are finally coming down, she remains confident that the future of her tribe is bright. “It’s not a test,” Bowers Cordalis says of the largest dam-removal project in US history. “It will work.”

Loop Flyfishing Adventures in Iceland: “The Stronghold”
Director: Ted Logart
Producer: Emilie Bjorkman / Loop Tackle / Cox Films
Runtime: 21:03
Presenters / Supporters: Loop Tackle / Cox Films

Description: Amid Iceland’s winds and waterfalls, Emilie Björkman chases wild Atlantic salmon –and discovers what’s at stake for one of their last untouched strongholds. Emilie teams up with her friend, guide, and fellow fly fisher Valli Ragnarsson while exploring this fairytale island. Together they fish the Húseyjarkvísl and the Miðfjarðará. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations are in decline in many parts of the world, but Iceland is still considered a stronghold for this iconic fish. However, open-pen salmon farming and loss of habitat have begun to threaten wild salmon even in Iceland. Emilie meets up with NASF (North Atlantic Salmon Fund) representative Elvar Örn Fridriksson to talk about the state of salmon in Iceland. She also visits Big Laxá and Aðaldal — “the Queen of Icelandic Rivers” — to meet Andrea, Arndis, Alexandra and Aslaug, four young women who have embarked on careers as fly-fishing guides and to hear their perspective on the future of the wild Atlantic salmon in Iceland.

School of Fish

Director: Colin Arisman & Oliver Sutro
Producer: Wild Confluence Media
Runtime: 19:02
Presenters / Supporters: Orvis (presenter), Trout Unlimited

Description: Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The knowledge of harvesting, preserving and sharing fish is as important here as any lesson in a book. Today, kids must not only learn from their elders how to fish, but also how to fight. For the last century, corporations have sought to extract the wealth of this rich region. Now Pebble Mine threatens to pollute the pristine headwaters of Bristol Bay. “School of Fish” offers an intimate portrait inside one family’s seasonal salmon rituals and their connection to the Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy, where local youth are empowered through fly fishing to serve as guides and conservationists. Can the next generation step up to defend the most prolific salmon run left on earth?