Kings of Gorst Creek Film

09/22/2024

Kings of Gorst Creek is premiering publicly today on YouTube for the very first time!

After a successful festival run, another summer of misguided posts being shared, it’s time to reveal the story of the Kings of Gorst Creek.

Thank you to everyone that participated directly and indirectly in the making of this short film. This passion project could not have been completed without you.

Please take 10 minutes out of your Sunday to enjoy the show! 🍿 🐟 🐟 🐟

Feel free to share publicly with others.

This story examines the salmon hatchery system used by the Suquamish Tribe to supplement their summer salmon harvest in Sinclair Inlet, Washington. Each Spri...

12/07/2023

Announcement: Our Kickstarter supporters are starting to receive their rewards! We want to give an extra special shout out to these incredible people who supported this film project!

Alexis Wright
Robert Lovgren
Gary Duane
Randy Fox
Steve Wright
Patricia Gallagher
J Thomas Peterson
Laurie Myers
Brady Darling
Robert Jones

Ya'll are the real hero's of independent filmmaking!

08/11/2023

Added three new festival laurels this week!

🏆 Winner - Best Documentary Short - West Sound Film Festival
🏆 Winner - Audience Favorite Doc Short - West Sound Film Festival
🏅Official Selection - Tacoma Film Festival

08/06/2023

Thank you to our crew of amazing filmmakers, our cast of characters, our supporters, and the West Sound Film Festival for allowing this story to be shared.

We can’t believe that this is our second film festival trophy 🏆 🏆

Much more to come 🐟 🥰🐟

Congratulations to this year's winners!

Best Short Documentary - Kings of Gorst Creek directed by Andrew Wright
Best Short Narrative - Uncradled directed by Kyle Beckwith
Best Feature Documentary - The Call We Carry: Confronting PTSD In The Fire Service
Best Feature Narrative - The Boy Who Never Tangoed directed by Mike Brown and Akira Talaba
Best Local Short Film - The First directed by Emily McDougall
Best Short Documentary Cinematography - Inseparable: Ava directed by Andrew Harrison Brown
Best Short Narrative Cinematography - Mountain Violet directed by Amanda Ebert and Nathan Harner
Best Feature Documentary Cinematography - Believe: The True Story of Real Bearded Santas directed by John Paget and James Waugh
Best Feature Narrative Cinematography - Perfectly Good Moment directed by Lauren Greenhall
Best Special Effects - The Problem with Time Travel directed by Mike Kearby
Best Student Film - One Minute to Midnight directed by James Brammer
Best Music Video - Identivacation directed by John Voth
Best Animation - The Sprayer directed by Farnoosh Abedi
Best Experimental Short Film - Sh*tfaced directed by Jack E.K. Collier
Best Horror Short Film - From the Depths directed by Justin Robert Vinall
Best Comedy Short Film - The Deal directed by Rishi Raj
Best Comedy Actor - Allan Fitzergald from Squatch Seeker
Best Drama Actor - Amanda Jane Stern from Perfectly Good Moment
Best Horror Actor - Allegra Sweeney from From the Depths

06/07/2023

Officially selected to the West Sound Film Festival!

Come see us in Bremerton, August 4th-6th at the Historic Roxy Theatre 🥳🐟🐟🐟

(Yes we know it's during salmon season)

05/16/2023

Kings of Gorst Creek will be making its festival debut this Friday night in Olympia!

Details here:

This popular event is like nothing else in Olympia and will sell out fast! Our 6th annual Salon draws you in to an inner circle of poets, authors, musicians, and artists.

02/16/2023

It takes a dedicated crew to shoot great documentaries.

Eternally grateful for this team

We are over halfway through color correction at this time - 127/198 clips completed. Next comes mastering the final sound mix, and then finally.... submitting to festivals! 🎬🐟

Where would you like to see Kings of Gorst Creek?

02/07/2023

A behind the scenes peak at color correction!

Update: With a wild push to complete the documentary in June the director needed to take time to regroup... whew.

Recently, we have been taking some major steps - re-cutting the story based on feedback, investing time on cinematic color correction, and finetuning the sound mix.

Once these steps are completed we will be submitting to festivals this season!

So be ready for lots of watch party alerts!

03/23/2022

A little over a week ago, the King Crew filmed this fun outing with the Kitsap Poggie Club and some local area teachers to release small batches of Chinook salmon into Gorst Creek. Have a watch:

The 2022 salmon in the classroom program has come to an end with the release of chinook salmon into Gorst Creek at Otto Jarstad Park on Friday March 11th. Th...

02/09/2022

In a sea of green hats, shirts, and jackets, the crew attended the Kitsap Poggie Club’s February meeting last night. Difficult decisions are being made as a result of the 2+ years the pandemic has had on the club.
Events have been canceled. Participation is down. Leadership is changing. But through it all the board is determined to keep on swimming.

02/04/2022

There’s something special about a shoot day.

Today we had a conversation with Dr. Casey Schmidt of the Suquamish Tribe fishery department. As the fish program manager Casey covers the finned side of the office.

We had a poignant and overarching discussion about the responsibility for hatchery managers to protect wild stocks while offering harvest opportunities for tribal and non tribal anglers.

We squeezed in our time together at the beginnings of the annual North of Falcon salmon meetings with the comanagers - tribal, state, federal, and international officials. The negotiations will continue for the next several months as the returning salmon forecasts continue to stream in.

Dr. Schmidt, as a negotiator for the Sinclair inlet fishery, will secure harvest opportunities this year as a result of the tribes ongoing investment in the hatchery on Gorst Creek, protecting important tribal treaty rights secured under the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855.

Can’t wait to share elements of this conversation with you all in our final story

11/08/2021

Last week was super busy for the Kings of Gorst Creek Crew! With 5 filming days, it was our busiest week yet! We captured everything from fertilization to harvest to salmon tours and even feeding salmon smolt. Almost all stages of the salmon life cycle was captured!
Today we wanted to highlight screengrabs from the fertilization process. Here a salmon technician at Grovers Creek Salmon Hatchery fertilizes well over 500,000 salmon eggs with the milt from a variety of adult males. In about 45 days salmon eggs will hatch and the baby salmon will swim around with their egg yolk sacs starting the Alevin stage. How many eggs can you count?