Miami Film Festival Announces U.S. Premiere of Jazz Age Globetrotting Drama ‘The Lost Aviator’
With last night’s unveiling of the MiamiFF32 poster as an image from Miami’s history (Orson Welles in Miami Beach 1943), MiamiFF revealed today the first title of the 2015 Festival’s official selection – another shot of vintage Miami: The Lost Aviator, by Australian filmmaker Andrew Lancaster. Against his family’s wishes, Andrew decided to open up a cold case from 1932, by pursuing the adventures and mysteries of his fearless great uncle, Bill Lancaster, a pioneering aviator whose high-profile jazz age affair and subsequent Miami murder trial was front page news around the world for 18 days straight in 1932.
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Chubby Miller, Bill Lancaster & Kiki Lancaster in 1927
The globetrotting tragedy was interpreted in the 2009 French film, The Last Flight, with Guillame Canet and Marion Cotillard, which followed on from the 1985 Australian TV mini-series “The Lancaster Miller Affair”. Lancaster’s more recent probe into the mystery has been turned into a feature-length documentary, The Lost Aviator, the true story of Bill Lancaster—who began as a Royal Air Force pilot before deciding to make a name for himself by being the first person to fly from England to Australia.
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Sensational Miami Love Triangle in 1932: Haden Clarke, Jessie “Chubby” Miller, Bill Lancaster
THIS FILM IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE $10,000 KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD VOTED ON BY YOU, THE PUBLIC. Final scores will be tabulated by an algorithm of both audience enthusiasm and audience participation in the voting process, so that attendance at the screening and active voting (one ballot per attendee allowed) is just as important as the average ballot score from each screening (with films being rated on a scale of 1 – 5). Vouchers are now available for the U.S. Premiere of The Lost Aviator at MiamiFF32 (March 6-15, 2015). Reserve your seat! —Tatyana Chiocchetti[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
