Aviation thriller CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO will be released on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play on January 20, and Netflix on March 20, 2015.
Following a highly successful worldwide festival run (including the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, AFI Fest, CPH:DOX) and a theatrical release at New York’s renowned Film Forum, aviation thriller CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO will now make its digital premiere through Sundance Institute’s #ArtistServices program.
Originally shot in 3D, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO takes place in the cockpit of a variety of aircrafts, its dialogs based on actual black box recordings. When you board an airplane, you put your life in the hands of the pilot and co-pilot. What happens in the cockpit when these professionals are faced with impending disaster?
CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (code for “cockpit voice recorder”) dramatizes six harrowing airline emergencies, using the sparest of elements to foreground the heroic professionalism of these unsung men and women. The film is adapted from a critically acclaimed theatrical production of the same name, staged in 1999, which won two Drama Desk Awards — after which it toured both nationally and internationally for ten years. The aviation community embraced the production, and the Pentagon has used it for pilot training.
CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO is a collaboration between Collective: Unconscious, who originally staged the play, and 3LD Art & Technology Center, where the project was filmed in 3-D as part of a program to produce and distribute experimental art.
The Sundance Institute’s #ArtistServices program provides Institute-supported artists with exclusive opportunities for creative self-distribution, marketing and financing solutions for their work.
CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO: Co-Directed by Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, and Karlyn Michelson. Written by Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, and Irving Gregory. Edited by Karlyn Michelson. 3-D Production: NHK Cosmomedia. Cast: Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Noel Dinneen, Sam Zuckerman, Debbie Troche, Nora Woolley. A Collective: Unconscious and 3-Legged Dog production. USA.