World Premiere of Drift – co-directed by Ben Nott – tonight at The Dendy Cinema, Circular Quay

Drift, which stars Sam Worthington (Avatar) Xavier Samuel (Twilight) and Myles Pollard (Wolverine), has its worldwide premiere tonight at the Dendy Cinema in Circular Quay, Sydney.

The movie, shot in Margaret River in Western Australia, is a world wide mind films production, co-directed by Aussie expat Ben Nott (who is also a partner in Droga5) based in Santa Monica.

The private screening is followed by the after party with live music at the nearby Opera House Bar. Make sure you get to the see the movie this weekend, which has had rave review from all the critics.

Based on true events, Drift is a story set on Western Australia’s spectacular and rugged coastline in the early 1970s.

It begins in a remote coastal town with the two Kelly brothers, who spend their youth searching for the perfect wave.

Out of necessity the family launch a backyard surf business; re‐thinking board design, crafting homemade wetsuits and selling their new surf gear out of their van.

Battling killer waves, small town conservatism and hard-core criminals, the brothers persevere, daring to dream of a world where they can surf to live and live to surf.

A story of passion and corruption, deadly addictions and fractured relationships, Drift tells a tale of courage and the will to survive at all odds.

Drift was co-written by ex perth producer Tim Duffy. He started Sauce Films in Perth with Mark Zagar, who still runs Sauce and Gagar was the second unit DoP on the film.

Drift has been sold globally and is being released first in Australia followed by the USA in August 2013.

The title design for the film was done by Sydney based Heckler TV.

world wide mind’s head office is located in the very center of what GQ magazine calls the “Coolest block in America”; Abbot Kinney Blvd, in Venice Beach, Los Angeles. world wide mind also have offices in New York and Sydney..

Nott (left) is the youngest person to have ever won the Grand Prix in Cannes. And one of the elite few creatives in the world who have won the whole set of Cannes awards: Titanium, Grand Prix, Golds, Silver and Bronze. He has worked at the top creative agencies in London, Europe, Asia, USA, Australia and judged many of the international advertising and film festivals including D&AD.