Mile-high filmmaking club: Virgin America produces first ever feature film shot entirely in-flight

Xeni Jardin 9:35 am Wed May 9, 2012

[Video Link]. Virgin America, the airline on which you can watch Boing Boing's very own television channel with our hand-picked videos, is producing the "first-ever film made at 35,000 feet,"— Departure Date. Photography took place on Virgin airplanes and covered "3 continents, 28,000 miles, and 20 hours of in-flight shooting."

Departure Date was written and directed by award-winning writer and director Kat Coiro (L!fe Happens, While We Were Here and A Case of You) and stars Ben Feldman (Mad Men), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass), Philip Baker Hall, Luis Guzmán, Janeane Garofalo and Max Brown.

Trailer above. Eventually, you'll be able to watch it in entirety on the in-flight TV system… when you're not busy watching Boing Boing's channel (#10), that is!

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