Story of Human-Powered Flight Throughout Channel To Be Advised in New Doc

A brand new characteristic documentary backed by Crimson Bull will study the historic journey of the primary human-powered plane to fly the English Channel.

“The Flight of Bryan,” which is being launched to consumers by Altitude Movie Gross sales at this week’s American Movie Market, tells the true story of self-taught U.S. dangle glider pilot Bryan Allen, who flew his pedal-powered plane, the Gossamer Albatross, throughout the waterway connecting Britain and France in 1979.

The journey got here two years after Allen made his first human-powered plane flight in Shafter, California, piloting his airplane to a pace of roughly 11 miles per hour and producing just below 0.5 horsepower.

The movie, which is in post-production, is directed by James Erskine, who beforehand collaborated with Altitude on “Billie,” a 2019 documentary about American singer Billie Holliday.

The pic is produced by Alex Holmes, Victoria Gregory, Sean Sorenson, Philip Manderla and Adele Reeves.

A synopsis from Altitude describes the challenge as a “genre-busting story” of how school drop-out Bryan Allen and bankrupt father-of-three Paul MacCready, along with a “rag-tag crew of neuro-diverse drifters,” set out on a death-defying, madcap quest to untangle the thriller of human-powered flight and in doing so win probably the most coveted prize in aviation.

The doc is constructed from a set of just lately found 16mm footage and an “arsenal of modern strategies.”

Crimson Bull’s involvement within the doc is one other signal of the media firm’s progress within the movie and TV area. Earlier this yr, a Crimson Bull-produced doc for the BBC detailed long-distance runner Mo Farah’s journey in revealing he got here to the U.Okay. as a sufferer of kid trafficking.

Altitude Media Group marks its tenth anniversary this yr. Chairman and co-CEO Will Clarke sat down with Selection for an in-depth dialog in regards to the British agency’s enlargement.