The Flight of Bryan

UK/Austria, Feature Documentary, 2024, 94 min

No engine… no fuel… no money… no problem

The Flight of Bryan is the story of Bryan Allen, an unemployed amateur cyclist; Paul Maccready, a heavily-in-debt father of three; and a ragtag team of neuro-diverse outliers. They set out on a death- defying, madcap quest to solve the mystery of human powered flight and, in doing so, win the most coveted prize in aviation. Built from a remarkable trove of recently discovered 16mm footage from the 70s, along with an arsenal of innovative techniques, this uplifting and humorous story of ingenuity and courage challenges the assumptions we make about society’s outliers, and reminds us of how the stories we tell can help us to understand, and to perhaps change, the world.

Directed by James Erskine

US Premiere