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By now, thankfully, a number of quality flyfishing films have been produced. Some have been very well made, but were a little too short and 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.

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.

How many times have we all heard this complaint about a particular project: "Great concept, but poor execution." No business is perfect, so there will always be the threat of a certain amount of flawed execution, but what we've seen so much in the past with flyfishing films is a sort of "ready, fire, aim" approach to the planning process. And as any business owner or project manager knows, ideas are the easy part. The difference is in the details, and the three partners in Confluence Films have at least 20 years of experience each in their respective roles for Drift: writing, directing, filming, editing, producing, planning travel and arranging logistics. They have each run their own successful businesses and know the importance of details in putting together a great final product.

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