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Right now we are in the Script development stage of the production of the movie El Conquistador del Cielo, which we believe has a high potential to be a worldwide hit, due to the importance of the story in Mexican and World Aviation. Shot in English, with subtitles, El Conquistador del Cielo narrates the story of Francisco Sarabia Tinoco, the Mexican Aviator who broke world records, even beating the ones set by American pilot Amelia Earhart. He also innovated and created new commercial routes in Mexico which are currently being used. He tragically died after accomplishing his greatest success: breaking the Mexico-NY flight record in 1939. The ups and downs in his life give us the opportunity to tell a beautiful, inspiring and highly cinematographic story. New York writer Tim Intravia is the screenwriter, and as of now, he is working along with a team of historians who are specialized in the subject, and will help him throughout the writing process, paying special attention to detail in matters of history accuracy. The message we are trying to spread is that, in spite of the violence environment that currently beats the country, just like in the 1910 s and 20 s, there was an individual, who could rise and follow his dreams. We want to inspire and tell the world about this great Mexican and his deeds.
FRANCISCO SARABIA (1900-1939) Francisco Sarabia was born in Ciudad Lerdo Durango in 1900; he founded the company Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas, opening air routes in the states Tabasco, Chiapas, Yucatán and Quintana Roo. A genuine pioneer of Mexican commercial aviation. The world shook with the tragedy of Spanish militar pilots Mariano Barberan and Joaquin Collar, who, from Sevilla, on june 10, 1933 tried to get to Mexico City. With their Breguet Grand Raid sesquiplane, after travelling 7,320 kilometers over the Atlantic, they arrived to Camaguey City, Cuba, where they landed on june 11. From there, on june 21, they flew to Mexico city, but their plane, El Cuatro Vientos (the four winds) got lost in the Oaxaca Mountains. From the mexican pilots came up with the idea of making the same trip backwards, Mexico-La Habana-Sevilla, honoring the braveness and sacrifice of the spanish pilots, with a plane built in Mexico. This plane (MTW-1) was named after Barberán and Colla r. The chosen pilot was Francisco Sarabia. Thanks to his wife, who financed his studies in Chicago, he was able to learn how to be a pilot, and had come back to Mexico to innovate in the aeronautic field.
That is when this pilot from Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, became part of mexican aeronautics history, who was founder and administrator of the Compañia Aeronautica del Sur (South Aeronautics Company), specialized in load transportation in gum producing zones of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatán and Quintana Roo. Sarabia was supposed to fly to Sevilla by the end of 1934, but after two test flights over the Valley of Mexico, the trip was suspended. However, Sarabia didn t resign to the routine of his company, supporting the thesis that commercial aviation needed the opening of new routes, with more powerful and adecuated planes. He decided to get in Burbank, CA, a Gee-Bee plane, which he later named El Conquistador Del Cielo (The Conqueror of the Sky), by the end of 1938. During that year, he broke every flight records from Los Angeles to Mexico City. At the beginning of the year 1939, Sarabia did the same thing in all open routes Mexico-Chetumal, Mexico-Merida, and Mexico-Guatemala. Facing the lack of expert pilots that his company suffered, he founded in Mexico
a school for pilots and aviation mechanics, from which important pilots Carlos León, Miguel Torruco, Raul Reyes Estrada and Jose Antonio Saavedra graduated. Sarabia was chosen by President Lázaro Cardenas to be his personal pilot in the South of Mexico. The opportunity that the New York World Fair offered Sarabia, made him try to win back for Mexico the flight record for this route, which belonged at that time to Amelia Earhart, with 14 hours and 19 minutes. On May 24, 1939, exactly at 6:52, El Conquistador del Cielo slide through an improvised track on the Balbuena field before observers from the International Federation of Aeronautics and the National Aeronautics Association, which registered every detail of the flight. Sarabia and his Conqueror arrived at the Floyd Bennet Field, in New York, at 6:40pm. Sarabia s purpose of breaking the record was accomplished. He made the flight Mexico-New York in 10 hours and 47 minutes. He then visited President Roosevelt in Washington, delivering personally a diplomatic package from President Cardenas. He was awarded by the Mexican Army and promoted to Colonel of the Air Force. On his way back, after taking off from the Airport in Washington, El Conquistador del Cielo went down into the Potomac River. Sarabia s tragic death put an end to the Mexican Eagles period.
PRODUCTION Once we get the financing stage done, we plan to start pre-production stage as soon as possible, so we can start rolling once everything is in place. The scheduling would be the next: 6 weeks of pre-production 6 weeks of production 8 weeks of post-production 90% of the movie will be shot in Mexico, in different locations from the jungle in the south, to the desert in the north. We are counting with the creation of Studio facilities in the region, which is already in process, and will be at our service once we start production stage. We are looking to cast names like Gael Garcia, as Francisco Sarabia. DISTRIBUTION The movie will be distributed in commercial theaters in the USA, then worldwide, aiming to get into renowned festivals like Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, etc. A big advertising campaign will be developed for the distribution of this movie. 39 replicas of the plane El Conquistador del Cielo will be built and sent to key places all over the world where the movie will be premiered.
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