TFTC!! GEOCACHING RADIO

“The Inheritance” Maxagri60 (France)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?Nous nous sommes inspirés des récits partagés par les géocacheurs : pour nous, c’est bien plus qu’un simple jeu, et on voulait vraiment transmettre cette dimension-là.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?J ai travaillé toute seule sur le projet. L’idée mûrissait depuis longtemps. Début mai, j’ai vérifié dans le règlement si le style dessin animé était permis. Une fois confirmé, tout s’est enchaîné : écriture du script, storyboard, création des personnages et des décors sur tablette graphique, puis l’animation. J’ai bouclé le tout la veille de la deadline, vers 23h30, le 2 août si je me souviens bien.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?Le moment le plus marquant, c’est quand on ajoute le son et qu’on anime pour faire naître une émotion. Même si le résultat n’est pas parfait et que je vois encore des défauts, le vrai défi a surtout été de trouver le temps d’avancer sur le projet sur mes moments libres.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?On a intégré des dates clés pour célébrer les 25 ans du Géocaching, ainsi que les trésors dans la cabane à oiseaux à la fin — un clin d’œil à notre bocal rempli de souvenirs rapportés de chaque série.
J ai voulu aussi marqué par l esprit de famille, beaucoup de géocacheurs partent à l aventure en famille. Le contraste grand père/petit fils était idéal pour l imager.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.Nous espérons que notre animation a bien plu aux géocacheurs du Japon. Tout les géocacheurs du Japon sont les bienvenus dans notre beau pays qu est la France.

出演：Maxagri60、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino

“The Island” Blackcoconut (Canada)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?

I didn't necessarily have a plan to make a film until I saw the call for submissions, and I couldn't get out of my head the adventure I’d had on that island the year before. I really wanted to make a film, and I thought it would be a fun, exciting adventure to try and get a conclusion to all the misadventures we’d had on St. Peter’s Island the year before. It only made sense to try and use the footage I'd already shot on the island and plan a trip back to see if I could conquer the geocache that was still out there.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?

A very, very small team. It was me writing it and starring in it, and my lovely wife, Kenzie, helped film a lot of the scenes at home. My friend Chris helped with the drone footage — he actually came with me when I went to venture across the sandbar, saw me off, and took those cinematic overhead shots as I made my way out there. And then, of course, Justin, who the film is really about. He’s obviously in the footage, and I got him on the phone to hear some of his story about the poison ivy.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?If we go back to when we first started shooting any footage for it, the most challenging part was certainly recovering from all the poison ivy we’d gotten trapped in. Where we camped, we were quite literally swimming in poison ivy — and it was high-bush poison ivy, so I didn’t really notice it directly. We climbed around the island for an entire day, and we really put ourselves through it. Suffering from that poison ivy was pretty serious.

But then when it came to actually filming the deliberate scenes for the GIFF submission, the most challenging part was finding a time to get to the island without a boat again. I didn’t have access to that canoe anymore since I’d sold it. So we had to cross on foot at low tide, and there’s only about once a month when the tide is at peak low, giving you the biggest window to cross safely. I didn’t want to get stuck out there. I brought extra food and clothes in case I got wet if the tides came back up. We had to plan it accordingly, which meant there were only three chances all summer I could go. I’d missed the first two, so the low tide in August was my last chance.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?

I hope that geocachers appreciate the idea of caching for a quality experience rather than quantity. Like a lot of cachers, I love the numbers and data aspect, but I find I always have a more memorable and special time when I’m going for a specific victory rather than chasing high numbers. That’s mentioned in the film — that going for one cache or one adventure can give you a really rewarding experience, versus stopping every 150 meters down a trail for little park-and-grabs or bench caches. That’s still part of the game and I love it dearly, but if I only got one cache a month, I’m okay with that as long as those are really fun adventures I never forget.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.Hello to all the geocachers in Japan. Thank you so much for all your hard work putting together events, fun caches, and keeping the spirit of this awesome hobby alive out there. We live in very different areas of the world, but it’s still the same thing we enjoy doing — exploring, having adventures, getting outside, using our brains and our bodies to explore this world. I hope one day to come out to Japan and have lots of hiking and adventures there too. I’m looking forward to meeting some of you when that happens.

出演：Blackcoconut、tonitta2119、Jin Kakino

“If You Hide It…” geocachingvlogger and Seemyshell (USA)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?The film was inspired by the creator of the Geocaches in Gilby - Trycachious. He dreams of geocaches and then creates them. They are ALL gadget caches and he has created an incredible GeoTourist destination.──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take? Two worked on it, Myself (co-storyline, director, cinematographer, editor) The Geocaching Vlogger (Co-storyline, actor) We had Trycachious as an actor in the film and several people turned up to an event on one of the filming days for the other snippets.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?The editing - it took some time to edit what we wanted, and creating the vision we needed.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?That hiding great quality geocaches will get other geocachers to your area, and to inspire others to look beyond the pill bottle.──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.I have never been to Japan, but one day would love to. Not just Geocaching but as a real tourist also. podcast ：Treasures of our Town

出演：Seemyshell、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino

ジオキャッシュに入っていたかもしれない、エナメルの小さな記念メダル - それがパスタグ。ジオキャッシャーが名刺代わりとしてデザイン・制作するものですが、日本ではほとんど見かけることはありません。これは挑戦してみよう！と実際に作ってみました。同じく制作歴のあるアメリカ在住のDr.MOROさんをお招きして、パスタグについて解説しています。

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出演：Dr.MORO、カキノジン

“Flavors of Stealth” CheekyBrit (USA)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?

The introduction to the 2000 film 'snatch' by Guy Richie was my main inspiration. You see each of the characters introduced with a short clip of them and a grayscale freezeframe of them with the background covered by a single color. Then it was a question of working out the ideas for different stealthy approaches. The big one - the stuntman approach was a must, and since I rock climb, I already had all the equipment.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?

We had a pretty skeleton crew working on the film. Other than the eight people who featured in the film, we had a 14 year old director, Abby, and that was it. I did all the editing myself and filmed everything except the stuntman shot or the scene when I was in. We had 1 afternoon taking 90 minutes to film most of the shots then did a few shots 4 and then 6 months later, taking 15 minutes each. The jittershot with all the fast flashing circle shaped objects at the start was photos taken over 3 months in a nuclear plant. The different dates spanned 10 months, but all footage was captured in 4 hours of active work. Editing took 2 weeks.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?

The most memorable and challenging part of the film was the stuntman approach. We took 2 attempts to film it and Ian was upside down for about 2 minutes at a time with pauses in between. We had a haul team using a 5:1 pulley system with a grigri and ascender to capture progress and easily release it to lower him.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?

I hope people will notice the ending how our main character decided to introduce someone to geocaching this time instead of always being stealthy.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.Thank you for keeping the game alive in Japan. It is a global game and by hiding and finding geocaches you help keep it that way. If you ever find yourself in Idaho, USA, reach out to me and maybe we can go rappelling.

出演：CheekyBrit、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino

“Gadget Cacher” PezGremlin (USA)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?

I have been part of a team of geocachers who put on the GIFF event in our area every year. Nobody from our area (Chicago, Illinois) had created a film as of yet and I wanted some representation from our area. I don't know when the idea for this film came to me, but I had been thinking about it for a long while; maybe 3 years.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?

Including myself, there were 4 people involved. I did most of the camera work myself. I needed help with a few shots and recruited another geocacher (A-team-24) to help with those. I have a friend (Matthew Loeb) who plays piano and provided the soundtrack to the film. And one more friend (Neal E. Fischer) who did the editing of scenes. I filmed everything in about a week and then sat down for an afternoon with Neal to work through the editing process.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film? The hardest part of making the film was finding the perfect tree to film. I wanted one in a park with a long horizontal limb that I could jump up to. While caching, I always kept an eye out for such a tree. I finally found one in Waukesha, Wisconsin which is about 100 miles north of where I live. I had to make sure I remembered all the props and camera before making the trip up otherwise the filming wouldn't have been as good. One memorable part of filming was when a small green insect flew up my pants and starting biting me. I had to take my pants off in the field and let it fly away.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?I hope geocachers took note of the title of the piano piece being played. It is "Poison Ivy Rag" by Herbert Ingraham and written in 1908. I have come across poison ivy in many of my geocaching adventures and this seemed like a very appropriate piece to use during this geocaching film.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.I visited Japan in 2018 and enjoyed exploring your beautiful country through geocaching. I know I visited some of the best places because of Japanese geocachers placing hides in worthwhile places to visit. I hope to return again some day.

出演：PezGremlin、tonitta2119、Jin Kakino

“The Best Finds Are Other Geocachers “ Owlfly (South Africa)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?One of my first big loves in geocaching was watching the old GIFF film reels, a favourite pastime even before I became interested in illustration and animation. I had been pondering participating in GIFF for quite a few years, but had always been a bit daunted by the challenge! But this year, on a whim more than anything else, I realised I already had all the skills I would need, and I jumped in.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?I made the film all on my own, sitting on my couch in my tiny apartment. I only realised that GIFF submissions were open about a month before the due date, so the entire film took me only a month to put together, with animating taking about 3 weeks, and editing it together, the fourth.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?

Earlier this year, I started working my first 8-5 job, one that is physically and mentally quite exhausting most days. I think the biggest challenge was getting myself to fit in the animation and editing work after hours and on weekends, times when I would usually be parked on my couch, incapacitated. While it was a challenge, it was also one of my favourite parts, being forced to make time to be creative and time for my geocaching hobby, when I would usually feel frustrated at not being able to do so.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?

One of the most fascinating parts about animation, to me, is how much painstaking effort goes into creating every second of a film. Once I started getting interested in animation, I began watching animted films with a lot more reverie and awe at the meticulous effort behind every second. So I suppose I would encourage people to see the craft behind each moment of animation.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.

Gosh. Hi Japan! I'm not big on travel, but I think it's amazing that geocaching has brought my film, and a little bit of me, all the way around the world :)

出演：Owlfly、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino

“The BisonBuddy5000” Skimbosh (USA)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?

I wasn't going to enter. I made a YouTube Short about the Bison Buddy, just to make myself laugh, and my pal Komikino suggested it would make a good entry, so I added on another minute and submitted it. I have submitted for GIFF in the past, so I was familiar with the 'vibe' that HQ likes for their entries.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?

Just me, in my backyard. The Bison Buddy is really just a portable work-stand for bicycles that I attached a few things to. I used to work in customer service, so I knew exactly how I should talk to sound like an infomercial.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?

The challenging part was to not look too crazy to my neighbor, who was also in his backyard. I half-heartedly explained what I was doing, but I'm pretty sure he thinks I lost my mind walking around filming a bike stand.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?

The line, "The days of calling on the gods for vengeance against nano cache owners is over!" seems to have resonated with some of the people I have talked to. Geocaching is a great game because of all the versatility, but it seems the majority of people I have encountered wouldn't mind if all nanos on the Earth suddenly disappeared, like some sort of Nano Rapture.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.

Geocaching is only as good as we, the players, make it. Don't put out caches "because there was some room without one" on the map. Give it a reason to be there. Make it personal. Make it worth it. Also, remember this tip: if you are going to try and be stealthy by pretending to be on your cell phone, don't forget to turn the ringer off. Nothing is more embarrassing than getting a real phone call during your fake phone call. Now that I think about it, I have gotten real good at my fake phone calls. I pretend what I think the other person is saying, and lots of times I pretend that the person I am talking to is going through some issues, like changing a tire. Sometimes I forget that I am looking for a geocache because I am so wrapped up in this imaginary conversation. I'm sorry, I tried to answer this question in a positive way but then by brain just spilled all over.

Well, I am flattered that you have an interest in any of this, and I wish you well on your podcast. Be safe!

You can hear what it was and some of the messages I got in this video -

出演：Skimbosh、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino

“Here’s My Card” Ptowngirl229 (USA)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?

I've been thinking about a possible GIFF submission for a few years and had some ideas, but then when I saw the theme of "Thanks for the community" I immediately had the idea of, what else could TFTC stand for? At first I had big aspirations but eventually came up with a version that I could actually pull off.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?

Three people were involved in the film. My partner (life partner and geocaching partner) did almost all the filming except for the opening scene which he was in, I got one of my friends (a non-geocacher) to come over to film that bit. Our kid Corbin who was 9 months at the time, and who we refer to as "Tiny Cacher" (a reference to Elton John's Tiny Dancer as he was almost named Elton) was present for all filming. Filming took place from 7/27/25-7/30/25 and I edited the video over a couple days - the filming and editing was a last minute affair. We also took 7/28 off from filming because we were celebrating my birthday that day!

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?

Almost every shot was done in one take because it was extremely hot during the outdoor scenes (if you know where to look you can see sweat that has dripped onto my jeans between scenes) and because our kid was with us we had to be efficient. The one scene we had many takes on was the opening scene where there is talking. We did a million takes (and actually ended up using the very first take) but it was a lot of fun and there were a lot of outtakes. My friend who was helping us film that scene was trying to direct us because we were out of control laughing most of the time. There were also a lot more scenes of food that start with "C" that ended up getting cut from the film and we spent the next couple weeks eating all that food - food that didn't make the cut included corn, carrots, celery, and a cucumber so we were eating A LOT of vegetables.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?

I was hoping that people got the "Thanks for all the fish" reference. When the theme was first announced we were in the process of reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts as a family and I had the idea to make a reference to it from the beginning. In that scene, all of the things on the plate actually start with "C" (cod, chips, and coleslaw) but I had Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the brain and I thought it was really funny. It didn't get a chuckle at the screening that I hosted but I do hope some people appreciate the reference.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.

I hope you enjoy my film. I love how geocaching can connect geocachers across the world and for me, also makes me feel more connected to my community as a whole. I can truly say - TFTC, thanks for the community.

出演：Ptowngirl229、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino

“Hard Work” Harogs (Switzerland)

──What inspired you to create this film for GIFF 2025?

It all started with a brief thought. "Imagine having to perform all the functions yourself as the owner of a cache..." Shortly afterward, I was on a geocaching trip with Commge, and we came across the Willi cache and the Blackbox (Traditional Cache GC9NWT5) by Schtöffel. This cache is now also featured in the film. Somehow, this geocache seemed to fit the original idea perfectly.

──How many people worked on your film, and how long did the production take?

Four people were involved in the film production. I developed the script with Jolanda and Martin. Jolanda and I organized a lot of the logistics, gathered props, and even built some props ourselves out of cardboard. Then we visited the location at Schtöffel's geocache and asked for his permission to use his box in the film. For the scenes inside the box, we were given a room at a timber construction company. After that, there were two days of filming. On the first day, we were outside at the geocache, and Jolanda played her part. We already had to think about how the interplay between the indoor and outdoor scenes would work. On the second day, a few weeks later, we met at night and filmed the indoor scenes, working with artificial light. Those were the two most fun parts of the project. Then came the hard work for Martin, who had to edit the individual scenes together so that the interplay between the interior and exterior looked natural. That was probably the most time-consuming part. In the end, we handed the film over to Commge, who then added the music. We didn't count the hours, but seven months passed from the first meeting to the film's upload, during which time we stayed in regular contact.

──What was the most memorable or challenging part of making your film?

There were two things that were particularly challenging:

A) Cache Functions / Modification

After we decided on Stöffel's cache, we had to analyze which functions we could incorporate into the film. The film doesn't show all of the cache's features. The cache also didn't have a lid that could be opened. We temporarily built one on top. In reality, the geocacher couldn't reach inside the cache. That was also a challenge from a filming perspective.

B) Filming interior and exterior scenes with a time gap between them.

Since we filmed the exterior shots at the cache and the interior shots 14 days apart, the script had to be followed precisely. Although our cameraman had the scenes very well memorized, we occasionally had to rewatch the filmed exterior scenes to ensure the action inside the cache was filmed perfectly. The final editing was therefore another challenge.

──Is there a moment in your film that you hope geocachers around the world will notice or appreciate?

Ultimately, we wanted to entertain, but the message lies somewhere in between. Namely, that being a geocache owner involves work. The community should show gratitude and appreciation for this work. For example, by treating the geocache with care or perhaps writing more than "TFTC" in the log if you notice that work went into it or that the hiding place was specially chosen.

──Please share a message for geocachers in Japan.

What we do with our hobby, in a kind of parallel world, is fun and connects us. But it's not important to the world – it's barely noticed. Check out the GIFF article "Never a Straight Path" by JustCarlo. With beautiful thoughts, he bridges the gap between geocaching experiences and experiences in our everyday lives. He asks the question: "Is it geocaching or real life?"

Geocaching is more than just searching for a small container. It offers small, personal micro-adventures, but also creates global connections. We wish you outstanding moments with our wonderful hobby and beautiful moments in your community.

出演：Harogs、tonitta2199、Jin Kakino