BASS: THE MOVIE PREMIERES AT DESIGN CENTER
Bass, America’s favorite sport and recreational fish, hits the Hollywood screen with the release of Jamie Howard’s Bass: The Movie Oct. 17 at the Pacific Design Center Silver Screen Theater, 8687 Melrose Ave., (at San Vicente Boulevard) West Hollywood.
Tickets for the premiere showing which benefits California Delta conservation organizations are priced at $10. Howard’s film will screen at 3:15 p.m., with fly-fishing and conventional gear anglers speaking for an hour prior and an hour after the screening.
The 60-minute film features a road trip through California in search of fishing secrets and a world record.
Previous Jamie Howard fishing films include Chasing Silver (tarpon in the Florida Keys) and In Search of a Rising Tide (bonefishing in the Bahamas.) Howard is a graduate of The University of Virginia and worked in advertising as a writer and commercial director in New York and Los Angeles.
Bass: The Movie will be released to the public on 2-disc DVD set on Oct. 31.
The Pacific Design Center premier of Bass: The Movie will feature the film as its axis and include boats, gear, fishing pros, speakers and prize drawings. This cinematic journey within a few miles of the Pacific Ocean pits flyrod fisherman and conventional rod fisherman on the same boat to share approaches and cultures side by side.
On the conventional rod side, the film begins with interviews with ESPN Bass Elite Series pros including, Mike Iaconelli, Kevin VanDam, and Kelly Jordon. Then follows (by air, land and sea) California Delta guide Bobby Barrack, California fly rod pro and Delta guide Kevin Doran, world-record holder Raymond Easley, flyrod world-record holder Larry Kurosaki, bass pro and guide Marc Mitrany, and flyrod pro John Sherman. Sherman, an accomplished angler, who has caught
trophy fish all over the world, was still new to the bass world. So he sets off to visit all these men, in search of bass secrets and a trophy bass.
The film’s initial revelation is that the State of California is a haven for the world’s
biggest bass with numerous fisheries unlike any other: The endless maze and tidal waters of the California Delta’s levee system, contrast with the clear waters of Southern California reservoirs.
Bass Notes and Facts
Modern bass fishing has grown into a multi-billion dollar sport since its simple roots,
and the chase for George Perry’s 75 year-old record 22lb 6oz bass caught in Montgomery Lake, Georgia in 1932 has helped stoke that fire. It is a record anyone with a fishing rod is eligible to match. California is considered one of the most likely places to find it. Though the record has been challenged several times in the years since Perry’s catch, it has remained the benchmark. It is one of the longest standing records in the sport of fishing. The film is not solely concerned with besting it, but rather exploring the ways the men who have made this bass their life go about their hunt, by fly rod or by conventional - in search of the big one.
Additional Information:
In early 2009, ESPN Outdoors previewed Bass: The Movie with a weekly series of two-minute shorts on the project to expose viewers a new world of bass fishing in California through a cinematic perspective. It was one of the most-viewed projects by HowardFilms to date. The full-length film is not owned by ESPN.
Please join us for a fun afternoon at the movies. Your $10 ticket purchase will help support conservation efforts in the California Delta and protect this valuable resource for years to come. Call us (818) 785-7306 or stop by to purchase your ticket.