Join Slow Food in the Tetons and Trout Unlimited for a special film festival presented by Loop Tackle and Cox Outdoors that 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, swag, partner booths, children’s book signing, and food tastings! Full lineup to be announced soon!   

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

• Food tastings by Pride of Bristol Bay, Lark's Meadow Farms, Canewater Farm / Gherardo Olive Oil, Red Gold, and 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

Purchase your tickets here

Artwork by Abby Paffrath, design by Saltworks

Lineup:

Iconic Rises (A.J. Swentosky / Jon Klaczkiewicz / Frogwater Productions / Friends of the Bridger Teton+): 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. 

Guardians of the Snake: Behind the Scenes: Girl’s Day Out (Jon Klaczkiewicz / Fish Camp / Visit Jackson Hole): 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.

Chasing Hatches (Jon Klaczkiewicz / Fish Camp / Henry’s Fork Foundation / The Salmonfly Project): 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. 

When Fish Return (Josh Duplechian / Trout Unlimited): 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.

Undammed (Swiftwater Productions / Patagonia): 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.

Loop Flyfishing Adventures in Iceland: “The Stronghold” (Ted Logart / Emilie Bjorkman / Loop Tackle / Cox Films): 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. 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. 

School of Fish (Colin Arisman / Oliver Sutro / Wild Confluence Media / Orvis / Trout Unlimited): Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. 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. Can the next generation step up to defend the most prolific salmon run left on earth?