Flying Blind

High-flying aerospace engineer Frankie is in absolute control of her life, until she meets and falls passionately in love with Hassan, a French Algerian student twenty years younger than her.  Love is blind, and Frankie fails to see the warning signs as she stumbles into danger.

Flying Blind is headed up by an all-female team which includes Kasia Klimkiewicz, a young Polish director whose short, Hanoi Warsaw, was nominated for Best Short at the 2010 European Film Awards. Writer Caroline Harrington's credits include the recent dramatisation of Beyond Black by 2009 Man Booker Award winner Hilary Mantel.

A thrilling mix of state secrets, race, politics and loyalty with a passionate physical love story at its heart, Flying Blind will be produced by Alison Sterling for Ignition Films, whose most recent short film Turning premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival and came to Encounters in November.

Flying Blind is co-produced and co-financed by Matador Pictures.

Click here to read Screen Daily's pick of Flying Blind as their project of the week.

Read about the Bristol Evening Post's set visit.