THE DRIFTER movie info

THE DRIFTER PREMIERE TOUR

Rob, director Taylor Steele & musician Jon Swift hit the road in November for a string of Drifter film premiere events.
Each show included a live acoustic set with Rob and Jon, a full-length showing of the film, and a Q & A with Rob and Taylor.

Thank you to everyone for coming out & supporting these events!

The Drifter tour visited the following cities:

11/04/09 | SAN DIEGO, CA | La Paloma Theater | Check out photos from the event | Surfline.com review
11/05/09 | LOS ANGELES, CA | Montalban Theater | Check out photos from the event
11/07/09 | COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA | Coconuts on the Beach
11/09/09 | WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NORTH CAROLINA | Blockade Runner Beach Resort
11/11/09 | VIRGINIA BEACH, VA | Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
11/13/09 | NEW JERSEY | Algonquin Theater
11/15/09 | SANTA BARBARA, CA | Victoria Hall Theater
11/16/09 | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | Victoria Theater
11/17/09 | SANTA CRUZ, CA | Del Mar Theater
11/18/09 | SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA | Fremont Theater
11/19/09 | LAGUNA BEACH, CA | South Coast Theater

OMBAK BALI FILM FESTIVAL

In August 2009, The Drifter had its World Premiere in Bali, Indonesia, at the Ombak Bali International Surf Film Festival, where it was chosen Best Film. The festival's program director Jolinde den Hass had this to say: "There has never been a more beautiful portrait of the diversity of the people, the surf and the islands of Indonesia. It's a very genuine road movie that shows a personal side of Rob Machado and the warmth and sincerity of the Indonesian people." The Jakarta Post remarked: "Capturing the journey of the surfer through a different land, culture and waves, The Drifter is a visual metaphor for a free spirit's conscious abandonment of the worldly traps of modern life as he searches for the inner freedom and spiritual joy offered by a life of renunciation."

THE DRIFTER ON FACEBOOK

Visit The Drifter page on Facebook

MUSIC FROM THE DRIFTER

Check out the free Lala.com music player featuring songs from The Drifter. Jon Swift, Stardeath & White Dwarfs, The Black Keys, The Raconteurs, Midlake, Iron & Wine, Tegan & Sara, Jon and Roy, Bon Iver, Brett Dennen, Jose Gonzalez, MGMT, Yeasayer, The Shins, Jets Overhead, The Morning Benders, and Matt Costa.

BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE DRIFTER TOUR

Rob & Taylor Steele shot behind the scenes during the Drifter premiere tour.

Check out Part 1 captured during stops on the West Coast...


Here is a behind the scenes piece from the Cocoa Beach, Florida tour stop...

EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN INTERVIEW

Watch an exclusive interview with Rob for VAS Australia filmed during the Drifter's Australian premiere.

Q&A FROM HAWAII FILM FESTIVAL

Check out video from Rob's Q&A session at the Hawaii International Film Festival

ESPN "FACE TIME" WITH ROB MACHADO

Rob Machado at the NYC premiere of his film, "The Drifter," on ESPN

ROB MACHADO ON CNN.COM

Rob_Machado: Congrats to fellow Reef team rider Mick Fanning on another world tour victory! Cheers http://vimeo.com/8212865
18 December 2009, 12:12 pm

Photos by: Dustin Humphrey / Reel Sessions

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The Drifter Press Release
August 24, 2009
SURF CHAMP ROB MACHADO'S SOUL-SEARCHING DOCUMENTARY - THE DRIFTER - TO HAVE U.S. PREMIERE AT THE NEW YORK SURF FILM FESTIVAL ON SEPTEMBER 25TH,2009

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X-DANCE ACCEPTED FILMS 2010! Announced.....

FILMMAKERS,
This has been an incredible year for film entries. The level of filmmaking reaches new heights every year. Hundreds of films have been submitted from all over the world. Almost half of the films submitted were from outside the U.S.A. X-Dance is truly the premier event for International Action Sports Filmmaking!
The difficult part of this process is determining which films will make the festival. The competition was extremely high this year! If your project did not make the final list, it doesn't mean that your project was not a good film, it's just that we are very specific in what we're looking for. We judge all films equally on the basis of filmmaking merit, not sport genre, sponsors or budget. The five categories we judge the films on are: Cinematography, Editing, Story, Music, and Action. Each of the five merits are given equal value. The films that ultimately make it into the festival score well in most, if not all, of the filmmaking categories, making them a good balance of story and action. Films that were all action with no story or any dialogue with the athletes, fared the same as films that were all talk and no action. X-Dance believes that it is this balance that will move the Action Sport Film industry away from "Action Porn", into legitimate filmmaking recognition of a much broader scale. We have already seen great results for the filmmakers that have participated in X-Dance!
Attendance is required by the Filmmaker/Producer or athlete for all accepted films! If you can't have a representative in attendance please let us know ASAP! Everyone that submitted a film can (and should) be part of the festival. We will give all filmmakers that submitted films passes to every event. The X-Dance Film Festival was created as a forum for everyone in the Action Sports Filmmaking Industry. We will be conducting the X-Dance Filmmakers Institute with seminars, and panels. The subjects matters will deal with real issues facing the Action Sports filmmaker: Emerging Internet demands in regard to content providing, music licensing, digital and hard copy distribution, and legal issues that arise from everything mentioned above. We will have the top people in the industry from each category there to raise the level of awareness and help you.
The reason we hold X-Dance during the Sundance Film Festival is for the filmmakers to immerse themselves in Sundance and its activities. We will post a listing of Sundance Film Festival activities so that you can participate. Check out the Sundance Film Festival website (http://www.sundance.org/). Screenings, workshops and seminars are open to you as filmmakers. Use the Sundance Festival to inspire your career!
This is the 10th anniversary of X-Dance! This will be a great year for us. We will be presenting Warren Miller the "lifetime achievement award". Warren will be attending and participating in the festival this year. The O.R. (Outdoor Retailer) convention is also in town at the same time. Our venue is right in the middle of both O.R. and Sundance, by no accident.
Thank you from all of us at X-Dance for your incredible film submissions and the passion that went into making them! We look forward to celebrating your creativity and the Actions Sports Culture with you at this year's X-Dance Film Festival.
PLEASE JOIN US!
Brian Wimmer
X-Dance Film Festival
Director / Founder

Filmmakers
This is the list of accepted FEATURE films for the 2010 X-Dance Film Festival (short films will be announced very soon):
(in alphabetical order only)

Film Title: Production Company: Director(s): Africa Revolutions Tour River Roots Rush Sturges, Tyler Bradt Black Winter Standard Films Travis Robb Contrast Nimbus Eric Pollard Dear & Yonder Cinema Paradisio Tiffany Campbell Everyday is a Saturday Poor Boyz Productions Johnny DeCesare Fiberglass and Megapixels Sandy Beach Productions Derek Hoffmann, Craig Hoffmann Fourcast Highmark Films Inc. Jorli Ricker Kranked 8 Revolve Lizard Skins Bjorn Enga Last Paradise Paradise Films NZ Clive Neeson Long Weekend Stuck In Ohio Productions Dan Mizicko Lost Prophets-search for the collective Corban Video Productions Nathan Apffel Machotaildrop Fuel TV Corey Adams,Alex Craig Me, Myself, and I The Background Collective Josh Landan Mind of the Demon: The Larry Linkogle Story Lone Gut Productions Adam Barker Modern Collective Poor Specimen Productions Kai Neville Mount St. Elias Gerald Salmina Nice Try People Creative Justin Eeles & Pierre Minhondo Open Space (The untold stories of Mike Basich) Hand Built Produtions Mike Basich, Dalton Paley Parks Bonifay Documentary Alliance MultiMedia Keith Kipp,Josh McWiliams Red Bull Project X Red Bull Media House Claude Merkel Refresh Level 1 Productions, Inc. Josh Berman Sea of Darkness Cinema Paradisio Michael Oblowitz Second Nature Sector 9 Colin Blackshear, Ari Marcopoulos signatures Sweetgrass Productions Nick Waggoner Smell The 'Crete / S.T.C. Skater Made Films Bart Saric STANCE Jmills Entertainment Jeremy Miller The B The Burton Corporation The Burton Corp The Drifter Sipping Jetstreams Media Taylor Steele The Edge of Never Edge of Never Productions William A. Kerig The Present Woodshed Films Tim Lynch The Tipping Point Clay Porter Productions Clay Porter The Ultimate Ride: Maddison/Millen The Ultimate Ride, LLC Erich Lyttle Transitions- The Simon Dumont Story Empire Productions Riley Poor