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The Flight of Bryan

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The genre-busting film tells the extraordinary true story of how unemployed amateur cyclist, Bryan Allen, and heavily in debt father of three, Paul MacCready, together with a rag-tag team of neuro-diverse outliers, set out on a death-defying and mad-cap quest to untangle the mystery of human powered flight and in doing so win the most coveted prize in aviation. Combining a remarkable trove of recently discovered 16mm documentary footage in an imaginative and ground-breaking way with scripted scenes, personal testimony and fourth-wall busting encounters between the real Bryan and the actors bringing his story to life, this uplifting tale of ingenuity, courage and determination, challenges us to question the assumptions we make about about society's outliers and reminds us of how the stories we tell can help us to understand and perhaps change the world.

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Synopsis The genre-busting film tells the extraordinary true story of how unemployed amateur cyclist, Bryan Allen, and heavily in debt father of three, Paul MacCready, together with a rag-tag team of neuro-diverse outliers, set out on a death-defying and mad-cap quest to untangle the mystery of human powered flight and in doing so win the most coveted prize in aviation. Combining a remarkable trove of recently discovered 16mm documentary footage in an imaginative and ground-breaking way with scripted scenes, personal testimony and fourth-wall busting encounters between the real Bryan and the actors bringing his story to life, this uplifting tale of ingenuity, courage and determination, challenges us to question the assumptions we make about about society's outliers and reminds us of how the stories we tell can help us to understand and perhaps change the world.
Director
James Erskine
Producer
Victoria Gregory, Alex Holmes, Philipp Manderla, Adele Reeves, Sean Sorensen
Screenwriter
James Erskine
Production Co
New Black Films, Red Bull Studios
Genre
Documentary, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 39m