Indie Film in Rehoboth Beach Delaware

Various Sussex County Delaware locations were the scenes of the new Indie film, Drift.  Finbar’s Pub and Grill in Rehoboth Beach became a movie set. Actress Greta Gerwig, slid into a booth next to actor, Olly Alexander, dolled up in a long, fuchsia dress.

Drift is an independent film about infidelity and self-discovery set in the Cape Region. The scene at Finbars is when Rose, played by Greta Gerwig, is trying to relive what her husband did in an attempt for her to take control of what happened.

The movie, finished in mid December, was also filmed at Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Fisherman’s Wharf in Lewes, and along Rehoboth Avenue as well as at Broadkill Beach. The production crew lived and worked from a rented home on New Castle Street in Rehoboth.

Director, Allison Bagnew, who also wrote the screenplay for "Buffalo 66," said she knew of the Cape Henlopen region from her friend, Lewes resident, Darree Palmer. “I wanted a seaside town in the winter,” she said, “a place that was going to feel kind of emptied-out. There’s something very evocative about a beach town in the winter – it’s very lonely.”

So, if you're an Indie film fan, this might be worth while. Even if you're not, if you are from Delaware, you'll want to see this just to see your hometown on the silver screen.