Title:
Celebration of Flight (working title)

Genre:
Documentary Film (in production)

Beta Digital, 16:9

Length:
52 minutes for international TV markets

78 minutes for documentary festivals

87 minutes for theatrical release

Locations:
Dominica (Caribbean Sea)

Lakeland and Orlando (Florida)

Berlin (Germany)

Production:
SilverWings Film Prod./ Lombardo Films Inc. in cooperation with

DeFACTO TV & Filmproduktion

Status:
Postproduction (Munich)

Television:
ARTE (France), ZDF (Germany), SVT
(Sweden), all in negotiations

Author / Director:
Juliette Sanders

Camera:
Ralf Leistl

Cutter:
Jean-Claude Piroué

Line Producer:
Walter Heigl

Associate Producer:
Alexander Mönch

Music/Score:
Gary Marlowe

Marketing:
Tim Ehrhardt

Rights:
TV-, theatrical and book rights by
Juliette Sanders

Behind Lombardo Films you will find an international team with a long experience in the film business. Our team works worldwide with as much soul as professionalism.

With our global contacts we are able to find the stories we want to tell – on every continent, through all cultures, in every language. We produce for the international cinema and the television market with a focus on Germany, France, England and the United States.

With our films we try to balance the different forms of storytelling. We want our audience to be informed and entertained simultaneously. For our projects we always walk a tightrope between documentary and fiction in order to tell interesting stories in a fascinating way.

During the last 4 years, Lombardo Films produced a very special documentary shot on 3 continents, both on the ground and in the air: “ Celebration of Flight ” is about the never-ending love for flying and about a unique friendship between a 75 year old Swede and a 16 year old native boy from the Caribbean Sea. They share one desire for which they are willing to sacrifice everything i.e. to develop and build their very own aircraft.

Author/Director/Producer:
Juliette Sanders

Juliette Sanders was both an editor and host for WDR productions and chief editor of the successful TV magazine “Facelift” (tm3). Mrs. Sanders learned her trade as director as assistant director for different international feature and cinema productions. Since 2000, she is directing and producing – in cooperation with DeFACTO Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH – the international documentary film “Celebration of Flight”, planned for ARTE (France), 3Sat (Germany) as well as SVT (Sweden). The literary adaptation will be published in time for the release of the film in the year 2005.

Producer/Co-producer:
Robert Porschen