‘The Balloonists’: John Dower To Direct Docu Feature About First Aeronauts To Circumnavigate The World In Hot Air Balloon; Anonymous Content, Red Bull Studios & Rise Films To Produce
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Anonymous Content, Red Bull Studios and Rise Films have partnered to produce new documentary feature The Balloonists following Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard and English balloonist Brian Jones.
BAFTA and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker John Dower has come aboard to direct the project and Anonymous Content’s AC Independent will oversee sales.
The Balloonists follows the unlikely duo of Swiss explorer Piccard and British flying instructor Jones who, in 1999, took on the world’s leading aeronauts and ultra-rich adventurers in a race to become the first people to fly nonstop around the world in a hot air balloon.
Many in the aviation community believed this to be an impossible feat, after years of failed attempts by balloonists from across the globe.
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