August 18th Chapter Meeting: Film Show & Swap Meet

by Javier Trevino, AFF Vice President

This month, were doing something way different. We’ll be showing the film “Drift” by Confluence Film’s Tom Bie. Drift is not your weekend fishin’ show. It’s a full length 65 minute film best described in the text below out of the Confluence Film’s website. The film will start at 7:30 after a few announcements. From 7:00 to 7:30, we will have a swap meet so bring your old stuff you wanna get rid of. After the film, we will continue the swap meet till 9:00.

Description of DRIFT on Confluence Film’s website (edited for this announcement):

By now, thankfully, a number of quality flyfishing films have been produced. Some have been very well made, but were a little too short - without a broad range of subject matter. Others have been long, only to have you wishing they were shorter. And others have had decent storylines and characters, but appeared to be filmed by your nine-year-old sister as she was dribbling her soccer ball. They have all been encouraging and unique in their own ways, but none have successfully integrated the five major pieces of a flyfishing film: great characters and personalities, cinematography, music, a variety of freshwater and saltwater, and an adequate supply of what we all like to call fish porn. Confluence Films aims to change that with Drift.

The film is aimed at showing all viewers - from hardcore, 300-day-a-year guides, to people who’ve never picked up a fly rod - that flyfishing is a much deeper, more interesting, more varied, and a more fulfilling sport than they’ve been led to believe by mainstream media, particularly the more traditional fishing magazines and television shows. Drift will do this by highlighting some of the sport’s more colorful characters and destinations, capturing these stories on location with the best shooters in the business using the best medium known to man - film. That is important to mention, as every fly fishing movie and video project to date has been shot on video Drift will be the first ever feature-length fly fishing project shot entirely on film.

Drift will combine all the necessary elements to result in the first full-length, high production-value, multi-destination flyfishing movie ever made.

The Locations

Production on Drift began in September of 2007. A total of five separate segments are planned for the movie, as well as the introduction and a closing piece. The end result will be a movie of approximately 65 minutes.

Locations for Drift include:

Oregon’s Deschutes River
The North Bight of Andros Island in the Bahamas
The high-altitude rivers of Kashmir, India
Southern Belize
Montana’s Bighorn River
Utah’s Green River
Colorado’s Frying Pan River