Kitty Hawk
TFI Suppport
Logline
The story of the Wright Brothers, the original aviation pioneers, that chronicles their journey and struggles towards the first manned flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Joshua Astrachan
Director/ Writer
For the better part of the last decade, Joshua Astrachan was a producer for the great American film director, Robert Altman, most recently on Altman’s last film, the celebrated A Prairie Home Companion, written by Garrison Keillor and starring Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson and Kevin Klein. Astrachan also produced The Company, Altman’s narrative feature set in the world of dance, starring Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell and the company members of the Joifrey Ballet of Chicago.
Lucy Barzun Donnelly
Producer
Lucy Barzun Donnelly launched her company etc.films after developing and coproducing Peter Hedges’ Academy Award-nominated Pieces of April with John Lyons. Under the etc.films banner, she produced The Go-Getter by writer-director Martin Hynes starring Zooey Deschanel, Jena Malone and Lou Pucci which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in June, 2008; she produced and is currently in post-production on Grey Gardens, a drama based on the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter “Little Edie” Beale starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange for HBO films.
Gill Holland
Producer
Spirit Award nominee for Producer of the Year 1999, Gill Holland has worked on over 50 films, including Sundance faves Flow: For Love of Water, Adventures Of Power, Spring Forward, Loggerheads, triple winner Hurricane Streets, the FOX sit-com Greg The Bunny, the Spirit Award winner and first carbon-neutral independent film Sweetland, Al Gore’s 2008 Reel Current Award winner Mountain Top Removal, and the Emmy nominated Dear Jesse. He produced three volumes of cineBLAST! the short film compilations. He is a partner at The Group Entertainment, the KY/NYC management/production company. Half-Norwegian, half North Carolinian, a lawyer and former adjunct professor at NYU Graduate Film School, Gill worked at the French Film Office. He has been on the jury for shorts at Sundance and the selection committee for the Academy Awards, Student Division.
Tim Kirkman
Producer
Tim Kirkman’s feature film debut, Dear Jesse, was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures in 1998. A documentary film about the political and personal parallels between the gay filmmaker and the notoriously anti-gay U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Dear Jesse aired on HBO/Cinemax “Reel Life” series in 2000, garnering an Emmy Award Nomination in the News/Documentary Writing category. The film was nominated for GLAAD, Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards and was named the Best Documentary of the Year Runner-Up by the Boston Society of Film Critics.