Bill Parks is an ex Los Angeles TV professional who packed up and moved to New Zealand with his fiancée nine years ago for a change of pace—his main focus now is enjoying the outdoors by getting out on the water.
Now Parks is combining his film background and love of paddling to create Rivering, a documentary about the whitewater obsession.
“Kayaking for me is a dose of sanity,” writes Parks on the film project’s website. “In a world ever more risk averse and bubblewrapped, kayaking, and the wilderness in general, are where I find an escape. This is where I rely on my common sense, my ability to analyse risk and the skills of my fellow paddlers
“You don’t need to be an expert paddler to experience this, nor do you need any special talent,” writes Parks, which is why this film will be a break from the extreme waterfall videos we see so often in the whitewater world.
“We wanted to make a film that was about the rest of us: oldsters, youngsters, weekend warriors, beginners, perpetual intermediates. We wanted to showcase the sport we love, the people we paddle with and the wild rivers that we call home.”
Parks is crowdfunding the film through an Indigogo campaign and plans to put it up for free online once it’s completed.
