Project Detail

Flying Blind

Synopsis

Flying Blind is a passionate post-9/11 love story that confronts cultural, racial and sexual taboos. It tells the story of an impossible love: an older woman with a younger man, in a world where security is paramount and nothing is quite what it seems.
Frankie works for a major aerospace manufacturer, designing drones for the military. She’s at the top of her game and in total control of her life. When she meets Kahil, a French-Algerian student, much younger than her, she embarks on a passionate affair and for the first time in her life she utterly, thrillingly, loses control. One morning, when she arrives for work, she’s detained by security and told that Kahil is a person of interest to the security services. She discovers that she has unwittingly crossed a line from control and security, into a nightmare world of suspicion and accusation. She now realises how little she knows of this man. But her love for him proves stronger than her mistrust, and she tries to find a way to protect her lover. Finally she discovers to her cost that betrayal always comes from those closest to us.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Features
Running time
93 mins
Format
Arri Alexa
Director
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz 1st Feature
Producer
Alison Sterling
Executive Producer
Chris Moll, Steve Jenkins, Nigel Thomas
Editor
Ewa J Lind
Screenwriter
Naomi Wallace, Bruce McLeod, Caroline Harrington
Director of Photography
Andrzej Wojciechowski
Production Designer
Alison Riva
Sound
Ian Bown
Composer
Jon Wygens
Principal cast
Helen McCrory, Kenneth Cranham, Najib Oudghiri, Tristan Gemmill
Costumes
Saffron Webb

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Ignition Films

4 Somerset Street
Bristol
BS2 8NB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 909 9941

Ifeatures

South West Screen
St Bartholemews Court
Lewins Mead
Bristol
BS1 5BT
UK

Sales Company

ContentFilm plc

19 Heddon Street
London
W1B 4BG
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7851 6500
Fax: +44 (0)20 7851 6506

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