Salmon swim

850 miles from
the ocean to Idaho

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Ocean to Idaho is a visual experience offering audiences the opportunity to track salmon migration 850 miles from Oregon's coast to Idaho's wilderness.

Outdoor journalist and TLM founder Kris Millgate lived and worked solo out of a Toyota Tundra paired with Four Wheel Campers during field production of the half-hour documentary. Episodes shared during filming also provide fans with a virtual adventure through the Pacific Northwest while also revealing the process for shooting a film solo during a pandemic.

“Broken cameras, bruises, stitches and skin cancer. I wasn’t expecting any of that. I was as worn out as the fish by the time we made it to mile 850,” says Millgate a journalist for three decades. “Then I had to cut 25 hours of footage down to a 26-minute show. It was like shoving stepsister's foot into Cinderella's slipper.”

What happened in front of the camera is in the Emmy-nominated film. What happened behind the camera is in Millgate's second book My Place Among Fish. 

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