Bryce Ferendo, Director, Writer 

Sloan Grant(s) Received: 2022, USC, Production Award

Project Type: Short 

Genre: Drama

Length: 30 minutes

Field of Science: Engineering

Stage: Sales and Distribution

Synopsis: 

In 1901, after a disastrous summer in Kitty Hawk testing a new glider, local bike mechanics and self-proclaimed aviators, Wilbur and Orville Wright arrive back home in Dayton, ready to give up on the race to a functioning airplane. They find themselves battling the pressure that comes with running a business, like missed payments on their bicycle shop, and soon hear news of their heavily funded aviation competitors inching closer to flight. With time running out and the dark disease of self-doubt eating away at Wilbur’s once obsessive passion for flying, the brothers must find a clever way to solve their glider issues and decide if the dream of flight is really worth risking it all.