- Flechette (company)
Flechette is an independent film and television production company operating from
Glasgow ,Scotland andDublin ,Ireland . The company has had a close association with filmmakerGarfield Kennedy (who produced and directed theNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award winning9/11 documentary, "NOVA: Why the Towers Fell", forPBS broadcaster WGBH Boston). Flechette has co-production links with Texas-based producers, Raygun Films Inc., and is developing theatrical films in Europe and North America.Flechette has produced a series of fictional films including the BAFTA-nominated short, "Bye-Child" (written and directed by
Bernard MacLaverty , and based on the poem of the same title bySeamus Heaney ). "Bye-Child" and documentary, "The Grandparents" (directed by Ioana Joca), have been nominated for 3 BAFTA Scotland Awards and MacLaverty won Best First Time Director prize. In 2005, Flechette produced a fictional film for children, "Winning Streak", which featured television racing pundit,John McCririck , playing as himself.The company also has had a close association with various extreme balloon flights - principally involving Sir
Richard Branson and aeronautical designer and adventurer,Per Lindstrand . In 1999, the company shot the world's first circumnavigation of the world by balloon when Swiss psychiatrist,Bertrand Piccard , and English balloon pilot, Brian Jones, flew theirBreitling Orbiter 3 Rozière balloon over the Mauritanian coast completing the flight in 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes.External links
* [http://www.flechette.net/ Official site.]
* [http://www.raygunfilms.com/ Official Raygun Films site.]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/ "NOVA: Why the Towers Fell" resources.]
* [http://www.breitling.com/orbiter/breit98/eng/ Official Breitling Orbiter 3 site.]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448041/ Garfield Kennedy's IMDb's listing.]
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