Heike Bachelier:
director - editor
A few years ago seeking refuge from the mad media circus
where I spend most of my life I escaped to the Outer Hebrides. It was
an unforgettable holiday. It was here that Andy introduced me to
fishing. The damage was done and I soon cheerfully abandoned my
salaried television production career to instead make more meaningful
films. The following year I was persuaded to take a professional
casting lesson. I was soon hooked on fishing and spent many frustrating
days at crystal clear streams in beautiful countryside scaring fish
with my furious casting techniques. When Andy suggested making a film
about Hardy’s I jumped on board.
I must admit that making a film about fishing was never my first ambition. However I was astounded at what the film revealed about our world of today by tracking the evolution of angling and showing the fortunes of one family business in our changing times.
My own career began in Munich, Germany, studio directing TV shows whilst studying for my Master’s in Political Science. On graduation I produced feature films and documentaries for German public television. After that came the enforced solitude that accompanies the writing of two feature film scripts. These complete it was then fantastic to realise that with the recent developments in technology it’s now possible to pack all the gear we need into a modest car, drive off into the sunset and make the films we always wanted.
