B17: The Mission

Sort Of...Films Ltd. were responsible for the production of the £40,000 live action component of this £200,000 digital animation project produced by Storm Front Digital Pictures, now Red Star Studio (www.redstarstudio.co.uk).

The 10 minute film is now being exhibited at Kalamazoo Air Zoo, Michigan as part of their multi-million dollar refurbishment. The film is screened on a 6m high cylindrical screen in stereoscopic 3D and will employ 5.1 surround sound and olfactory and vibration effects.

View Behind-The-Scenes photographs here

Some short clips from the film can be seen in our showreel here

B17: The Mission is a fictional film that portrays the final mission of one of America’s B17 air fortresses during WWII, using the perspective of its only surviving crewman, Joe Kangas, to relate an emotional and physical journey that still resounds in hearts and minds the world over.