DRIFT: A Film by Jim Vendiola

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

Page 1 LATEST UPDATESDecember 2011• DRIFT WINS THE NEW YORK NO LIMITS 2011 FILM SERIES AUDIENCE AWARD!View Press Release | NYNL Website May 2011• DRIFT FEATURED AT THE 2011 FESTIVAL DE CANNES COURT MÉTRAGE!Registered programmers/buyers may access our catalog listing here.

NEWS

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

RECENT NEWS4/20/2011: DRIFT had its Carolinas Premiere at Myrtle Beach International Film Festival.3/25/2011: DRIFT was an official selection in the FirstGlance Online Short Film Contest.2/19/2011: DRIFT had its Minnesota Premiere at EgoFest. 2/15/2011: DRIFT received an Award of Merit from the Best Shorts competition!1/28/2011: DRIFT had its NYC Premiere at the New York No Limits Film Series (Winter 2011).12/18/2010: DRIFT received an Award of Merit from The Indie Fest competition!12/15/2010: DRIFT had its West Coast Premiere at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, in Los Angeles. There, it received an Honorable Mention in Directing!10/29/2010: The TRAILER is now online!10/27/2010: Advanced tickets for the Chicago Premiere and Press Screening are now ON SALE!Purchase HERE.Check the SCREENINGS section for more info.View the PRESS RELEASE.10/24/2010: DRIFT has been awarded The REEL Audience Award at this year's REEL Independent Film Festival, the fest's top honor!10/15/2010: DRIFT will have its WORLD PREMIERE this month, at THE INAUGURAL REEL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL & EXTRAVAGANZA in Washington, D.C.!Showtimes (_ THEARC Auditorium):Saturday, 10/23 - 11:35am Sunday, 10/24 - 2:15pmView the PRESS RELEASE and FULL LIST OF FILMS10/13/2010: Check out the official DRIFT movie poster! (Designed by Tim Swezy)Small Version: Click ThumbnailLarge Version: Click Here
TRAILER

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

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SCREENINGS

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.
UPCOMING SCREENINGSFirstGlance Online Short Film ContestFri March 25 - Fri May 13, 2011Watch the FULL 32-minute film, and help DRIFT win by voting for us!http://fgff.openfilm.com/submissions (DRIFT is on page 2 of the submissions / free registration / 3 votes required for your votes to be counted!)2011 Festival de Cannes Court Métrage (Short Film Corner)Registered programmers and buyers may access our catalog listing here.PAST SCREENINGSWed April 20, 2011 - 7:30pmMyrtle Beach International Film Festival Carmike Cinema Broadway (Screen 2) / Myrtle Beach, SCVisit the MBIFF page for details!Saturday, March 19, 2011:*Official Selection*EgoFest (Central Lakes, Minnesota)The Chalberg Theatre: 501 West College Drive, Brainerd 564014:30PM / $5 - $15Tickets • Program • EgoFest on FacebookFriday, January 28, 2011:DRIFT New York Premiere!New York No Limits Film Series (Winter 2011)The Wild Project: 195 East 3rd Street, NYC 100098PM / $10 (Admission all evening)Tickets • Press Release • ProgramWednesday, December 15, 2010:DRIFT West Coast Premiere*!Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)Regent Showcase Cinema: 614 N. La Brea Ave. 900365:30PM / $10Info / Tickets*Recipient of a 2010 HRIFF Honorable Mention (Directing) Sunday, November 21, 2010:DRIFT Premiere and Press Screening(Introduction by Writer-Director, Jim Vendiola / Cast & Crew Q&A)Portage TheaterChicago, ILShowtime: Doors _ 7:00pm / Screening _ 7:30pmView the Press Release.October 23 + 24, 2010: The REEL Independent Film Festival & ExtravaganzaWashington, DCShowtimes: Saturday, 10/23 (11:35am) / Sunday, 10/24 (2:15pm)View the full schedule (PDF)

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BIOS

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

BIOS BIOSAnnie Siffermann (Lead Actress, Additional Material): Annie is an artist and musician currently living in Chicago. She attended Illinois State University, earning her BFA in Drawing/Painting. In her free time, Annie delights in designing jewelry, singing in the band Sleepovers, cooking and summertime. DRIFT marks her first onscreen performance.Dan Boldon (Lead Actor, Additional Material): Dan is 29 years old, and currently lives in Chicago. He plays guitar and sings in the Pop band Sleepovers, who released their first single this year on Chicago's punk label, Hozac Records. Dan enjoys surfing, and writing/performing his own music. DRIFT marks his first onscreen performance.Jim Vendiola (Writer-Director): Jim is a freelance filmmaker, editor, visual artist and semioccasional film blogger living in Chicago. His work has screened nationally and at local venues ranging from Intuit: the Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art and Facets Cinémathèque, to The Chicago Underground Film Festival. He has previously written, directed, shot and edited documentary & narrative content for Chicago's filmmaking organization, Split Pillow, and has more recently produced commissioned works for Project 891 Theatre Company.

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PRODUCTION

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENTdrift—-—nounthe course along which something moves; tendency; aim.a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.Linguistics. gradual change in the structure of a language.a heap of any matter driven together.a meaning; intent; purport: the drift of a statement.-verbto be carried along by currents of water or air, or by the force of circumstances.to wander aimlesslyto be driven into heaps, as by the windto deviate or vary from a set course or adjustment.Last winter I started to write a film about a chance encounter between two individuals. It quickly became a story about two strangers: one of whom places an online ad, to which the other responds. During a phone conversation they make a headlong and somewhat mysterious decision to meet one another. This occurs on a Tuesday morning, with both strangers consciously abandoning their respective nine-to-five jobs for the whole day. DRIFT is a film largely about sudden, temporary autonomy. A single day made free and unpredictable.I tried to imagine the awkwardness and ineloquence of their first meeting: how they would interact and communicate, how it might unfold and evolve over a relatively brief period. I shared an extended, ongoing dialogue about these ideas with non-professional actors (and material collaborators) Annie Siffermann and Dan Boldon, who also happen to be real life newlyweds (and who also perform together in their four-piece, vintage pop rock band, Sleepovers). Annie and Dan's general, shared pool of actual early experiences with one another helped shape much of their performances during the partially improvised scenes that occur.Regarding the film's title, I was surprised to find that the word "drift" carried so many different meanings, and that many of them described the film's plot and themes so well. Frequently it describes some change of course--either active or passive--with references to both the regular (perhaps monotonous) course from which an object or being deviates, and the unknown destination towards which it (perhaps inexplicably) moves.DRIFT is a film that I created, a bit more thematically than literally, from a personal space. I imagine and hope that its depiction of modern, youthful human experience, neuroses, and (both real and imagined) truths are broadly relatable.Jim Vendiola, 2010

PRODUCTION NOTES
PRODUCTION NOTESFor DRIFT I was interested in exploring the narrative and thematic elements of a first encounter. Visually I decided to use analog still photography lenses with a modified hi-def digital camcorder. I shot most of the film handheld, with a 50mm lens. Lenses with this focal length are nicknamed "normal lenses" because they produce a field of view most like the human eye.At times the film utilizes only available or practical light, and with the specific lens choices, it often assumes the grainy, day-to-day familiarity of late winter. Meanwhile, the handheld movement reinforces the story's reluctantly nervous energy and moments of excited discomfort. The result is a frequently down to earth, understated take on young, incidental romance.

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SOUNDTRACK

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

SOUNDTRACK "Imaginary People"Written by Seth Bohn and Kevin Kujawa Performed by Calibrated Crematorium(Available through Contraphonic and iTunes)"Wayward Girl Blues"Written and Performed by Lottie Kimbrough"Where You Gonna Go"Written and Performed by Art Guy"Can We Still Hang Out?"Written by Seth Bohn and Kevin Kujawa Performed by Calibrated Crematorium(Available through Contraphonic and iTunes)"Sleepovers are Fun"Written by Dan Boldon (Sleepovers) Performed by Dan Boldon and Annie Siffermann(Available through HoZac Records and iTunes)"Bring Your Love"Written by Erin Dorbin, Eric LaGrange and Nathan Meltz Performed by The Cave Weddings(Released through HoZac Records and currently available at the Matador Store)

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CONTACT

"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

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"...absorbing, inspired, poetic."

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The REEL Independent Film Festival & Extravaganza

Washington, D.C.

Boy places ad. Girl responds. Two twenty-something strangers decide to ditch work on the very same Tuesday, wondering where exactly a winter's day together might take them.

SOUNDTRACK DRIFT on IMDbDRIFT Facebook pageDirector Jim Vendiola's Filmmaker ReelKinosaur Films on TwitterKinosaur: film blog (updated by Jim Vendiola)Lead Actress Annie Siffermann's jewelry designs on EtsyCalibrated Crematorium on FacebookSleepovers on FacebookHoZac Records (home of Sleepovers and The Cave Weddings)Contraphonic (home of Calibrated Crematorium)Portfolio of DRIFT Poster Designer Tim SwezyPhotography page of Sound Editor/Mixer/Production Still Photographer Joshua LopatinEZBake's Oven: Assistant Director Beth Marrier's food blogKing is a Fink: Production Assistant Jessica King's film production page/blog

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