Best of Festival at the Waterwalker Film Festival
in Toronto in 2004.

"Robert Perkins has pushed the envelope of the documentary/essay film, creating works that are both searingly honest and engagingly personable."
— Phillip Lopate, filmmaker
Crocodile River

ONE MAN'S JOURNEY
WGBH/Boston is pleased to present ONE MAN'S JOURNEY, a three-part series about naturalist and explorer Robert Perkins as he paddles his canoe into the Canadian Arctic and down the Limpopo River in Southern Africa. His films chronicle his personal and geographic journeys as he explores and discovers new terrain with new insight. These three films cover the span of Perkins' life: as a young man creating his own identity on a long, solo canoe trip; as a middle-aged man, he and the woman he loves struggling to survive her breast cancer; and as a wiser man connecting more deeply with others through his African Journey.

Into the Great Solitude, shot in 1987, this now classic outdoor adventure film tells the story of Robert Perkins’ seventy-two day solo canoe journey in the Canadian Arctic. Perkins not only takes on arduous physical challenges, but he lyrically describes in film and language how the journey helps him make peace with a difficult father.

Talking to Angels, shot in 1993, at home and in the Canadian Arctic, Perkins and his girlfriend, Dr. Irene Goodale, allow us to witness their journey through her breast cancer as their two film journals weave together a moving story about love in the face of adversity.

The Crocodile River, 2004 Best of Festival at the Waterwalker Film Festival in Toronto in 2004. Shot in 2002 in Southern Africa, this insightful film captures Perkins and his canoeing partner, Bonus Lunga, traveling 1,000 miles down the fabled Limpopo River. As they encounter political and economic suffering, each man is challenged to face their stereotypes and assumptions about Africa, and Africans. The result a remarkable story about friendship, and the joy of discovery, set in a landscape of great beauty and hardship.