DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 16, 2025) — Watch this two-minute clip and reserve your seat at the final Iowa premiere screening April 16 at The Last Picture House in Downtown Davenport, Iowa.
In its Iowa premiere, the Columbia River Canoe Project follows cousins Robert Lester and Braxton Mitchell as they attempt a 1,300-mile canoe expedition from the Continental Divide near Butte, Montana, all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
The film's third character is their Bob Foote designed seventeen-foot Oberholtzer Ruby Red canoe handcrafted for their journey at Navarro Canoe Co, in Rock Island, Illinois.
Enjoy the award-winning seventy-minute coming-of-age, environmental stewardship, and adventure documentary film inside the state-of-the-art boutique independent cinema, The Last Picture House in downtown Davenport, Iowa.(Check Mountain King's page here for screening locations in British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington.)
The sixth of six Iowa premiere film screenings happens this Wednesday from April 16, 6PM, and Q&A after with the project founder, editor, and expedition lead in from Butte, Montana Robert Lester.
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Robert Lester arrived from Butte, Montana in the Quad Cities Sunday April 13, 2025 and went straight from the airport to The Last Picture House in Davenport, Iowa to be on hand for Q&A with over fifty scouts and their parents after they watched Lester's award-winning seventy-minute documentary film Columbia River Canoe Project.
Lester answered over a dozen questions from the scouts and their parents in just over thirty minutes. In this two-minute clip, Robert talks about big environmental stewardship projects like removing dams that have been on the Klamath River for 57 years and how the salmon returned within a year.
He explained how prevalent trash, garbage and plastic is on the Columbia River and how we can all do something about that problem without waiting for acts of congress and billions of dollars of funding.
