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Our short film On, In & Under the Sava, won Best Short Film at Paddling Film Festival, the biggest international paddlesports film festival. The five-minute film features our crew rafting instead of kayaking, to find an elusive fish called the huchen, in order to help protect the Sava from dams. Word of the Sava River and the mighty huchen will now travel the world with the festival and even more people will learn about the threats our home river is facing. Check out Paddling Film Festival’s webpage and Paddling Magazine to find out more about the festival stops, or how you can organize your own tour stop. You can also vote for our […]

Kratki film On, In & Under the Sava, ki prikazuje našo ekipo kajakašev v raftu (z namenom, da bi našli izmuzljivo ribo, ki bi lahko pomagala rešiti Savo), je prejel nagrado za najboljši kratki film na Paddling Film Festival, največjem filmskem festivalu, ki prikazuje dogodivščine na vodi. Film z mnogimi informacijami o reki Savi bo zdaj s festivalom potoval po svetu in tako bo še več ljudi bo izvedelo o grožnjah, s katerimi se sooča naša domača reka. Če želite izvedeti več o postankih festivala ali o tem, kako lahko tudi sami organizirate postanek v sklopu festivalske turneje, si oglejte si spletno stran festivala in revijo Paddling Magazine. V sklopu […]

Our documentary film One for the River: The Sava Story received the main award at the 17th Festival gorniškega filma in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Festival gorniškega filma is the biggest outdoor film festival in Slovenia and a member of International Alliance for Mountain Film. The film was shown in Linhart Hall of Cankarjev Dom on Monday, February 13th and director Rožle Bregar and screenwriter Rok Rozman accepted the Grand Prix award today. Big thanks to all who gave the film an opportunity at the festival and thanks to the jury for award. Our wish for Slovenians to get to know the Sava River is coming true in the nicest possible way, […]

Dokumentarni film Zgodba Save je prejemnik glavne nagrade 17. Festivala gorniškega filma! Po festivalski projekciji, ki se je zgodila v Linhartovi dvorani Cankarjevega doma v ponedeljek 13. februarja, sta režiser Rožle Bregar in idejni vodja ter scenarist filma Rok Rozman danes na podelitvi nagrad prejela kipec za Grand Prix. Iskrena hvala vsem, ki ste filmu najprej dali priložnost, zatem pa glasovali zanj in v njem videli potrebno za podelitev tako pomembnega priznanja. Naša želja, da bi zgodbo Save spoznalo čim več ljudi, še posebej Slovenk in Slovencev, se uresničuje na najlepši možni način. Če bo čez nekaj let tudi epilog za našo najdaljšo reko tako dober, bomo pa itak od […]

Z veseljem sporočamo, da je Upravno sodišče včeraj pravočasno (medtem so DPRS podaljšali rok za oddajo listin, na katere se sklicujejo, na 20.1.2023) prejelo s sodnim tolmačem uverjeni prevod magistrske naloge, kot dokazno gradivo zoper smiselnost gradnje HE Mokrice. Še enkrat velika hvala vsem, ki ste donirali ter s tem omogočili plačilo prevoda (5.536,10 EUR) in nadaljevanje sodnega postopka v bran reki Savi. O vseh novostih glede sodnega procesa vas bomo v sodelovanju z Društvom za preučevanje rib Slovenije redno obveščali. Za Savo!

Part 3: Under the Sava So, did they find a monster? The crew was diving deep to the bottom of pools to try and spot one – to help change the fate of the Sava River. New dams mean no Huchen. But legally, Huchen mean no dams… Made possible by NRS, NRS Europe and Sava River. Filmed and edited by Rozle Bregar, script by Rok Rozman

Part 2: In the Sava The surprising reason that this crew of kayakers became rafters is…snorkelling. This unusual combination can uncover secrets, it can be a research method and it can help you save your home river, but only if your home river is still home to a finned monster. Is it? Stay tuned and see it for yourself in the upcoming Part 3. Made possible by NRS, NRS Europe and Sava River. Filmed and edited by Rozle Bregar.  

Part 1: On the Sava Same crew, same river, but different vessel and reason for the trip. Carmen Kuntz, Rok Rozman, Bor Mihelič and Branko Djoković decided to become rafters. Why? Well, let’s just say they had a solid reason. Stay tuned to learn more in the next part. Filmed and edited by Rožle Begar.  

Last summer, the kayakers from The Sava Story documentary Carmen Kuntz, Bor Mihelič, Branko Djoković and Rok Rozman returned to Slovenia’s Sava River and explored it in a very peculiar way. Our media team captured the action above and below the water, and over the next 3 Wednesdays we will share 3 short videos with you. Get ready for some serious laughs, scientific methods and campfire concerts. Where to see videos? – On our webpage – On NRS Facebook page – On Balkan River Defence Facebook page – On Leeway Collective Youtube channel

In the spring of 2015, our then young Leeway Collective crew headed to Greece and Albania to paddle the entire Aoos/Vjosa River – from the source high in the Pindus Mountains to the Adriatic Sea – in order to get to know this last big wild European River and share it with the rest of the world.  This was important as there were plans for more than 30 dams to be built on its catchment. We knew that if we wanted to stop these plans from becoming reality, we would need to join forces with many organisations and especially with a lot of individuals, so it made sense to make […]