Movie distributor TF1 International have added an expanded synopsis for the movie ‘Drift’ which gives a little more detail for Sam’s character ‘JB’.
Australia, 1970s. The Fisher brothers, Andy (28) and Jimmy (22), have one great passion: riding big waves. As kids, their mother escaped from Sydney to Margaret River, a sleepy coastal town with some of the world’s most challenging and dangerous waves. For the next 12 years, the boys perfected their surfing skills, always searching for the perfect ride.
Free-spirited Jimmy is a gifted surfer and innovator but he starts to slip toward a life of crime to help the family out of debt. Andy makes a big decision. Quitting a stable job, he bets on Jimmy’s surf inventions and his own business skills and launches a backyard surf gear business. They rethink board design, craft homemade wetsuits and sell their merchandise out of their van.
Encouraged by their new friends, travelling bohemian surf photographer and filmmaker JB (Sam Worthington) and his gorgeous Hawaiian surfer companion, Lani, who stirs the two brothers’ hearts, they start to seek ways to expand.
After they get mixed up with a local drug dealer, it looks like everything they built up, will be ruined…
Set in breathtaking locations and inspired by the true story of Australia’s legendary surfwear moguls, the film chronicles the rise of surf brands and the expansion of the laidback surf attitude as a global lifestyle. A story of passion and corruption, friendship and loyalty, deadly addictions and fractured relationships, Drift tells a tale of courage and the will to survive against all odds.
They also tell us that:
World-Wide-Mind Films has established a collaboration with surf wear company Quiksilver. Through this collaboration a number of exciting opportunities to market the film become available, including:
1. Promotion for the film on Quiksilver clothing, in-store posters and videos, at the several international Quiksilver sporting events, websites and social network promotions.
2. Access to a library of vintage surfing footage and memorabilia to be used within the film and for promotional purposes.
3. A Drift clothing line to be used both for characters within the film and marketed via Quiksilver.
4. Involvement of surf athletes sponsored by Quiksilver to participate in the exciting stunt sequences of the film and some special cameo appearances by champion athletes.
PerthNow.com.au have run a great piece in which Sam says how generous the locals in the Margaret River area of WA have been in welcoming the actors and crew of the movie ‘Drift’.
