yeah, we started talking, I started talking to a lot of different vets, especially veterans that

had moved into fly fishing. And we started talking to a guy who was actually at, in Montana,

we were on a scout. And he started telling a story. He said, oh, you know, I got injured. And then I was,

I was about to go back in. He was working on the physical. He saw everything as a physical recovery.

And he's like, but what I couldn't see and yet everyone else could see was that the

mental recovery was not happening. And it wasn't there. And when he started telling us that,

I said, oh, well, that's the story because of Coulter believes that fly fishing will get him back

to Afghanistan and back into the military, he'll do it.

Yeah. into the military, he'll do it. Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, The Art of Flyfishing becomes a path to healing and director Joshua Caldwell's drama, mending the line.

The film tells the story of Coulter, a Marine who returns to a VA hospital in Montana after

being wounded in Afghanistan.

There, he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means of coming to terms

with his physical and emotional trauma.

In addition to mending the line, Caldwell's other directorial credits include the feature films, infamous,

and Level 26, Dark Revelations, the miniseries Welcome to Sanditin, and episodes of South Beach

and release. Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Caldwell

spoke with director Brian Woods about filming mending the line.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Oh, Josh, congratulations on such a beautiful, beautiful movie. In a vast landscape of gigantic theatrical comic book films that are very VFX heavy, I found your movie to be a very refreshing breath of a breath of fresh air. It was so, it was so sweet and sincere. I thought

that the movie was incredibly patient. And I, and I really just, I loved it. I thought it was a movie

that made big moments out of small moments. So I want to know how did it come together? What was the

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