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

[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!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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I hope they don’t plan on using recording devices in-flight. TSA will not be happy.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DKQ6LPPTLNTI4S2C4WZQD5XZSE Brian

So, I’m guessing, this is not porno. A mile-high filmn without sex, what’s the point?
http://twitter.com/Poochiepants David Boyer

Toga! Toga! 2000!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1644492211 Isaac Dettman

Snakes on a Plane 2?
me3dia

The fact that the trailer focuses more on the gimmick of filming entirely on planes (and b-level star-studded cast) more than the actual story doesn’t exactly make me want to rush out and buy a Virgin Air ticket to see it.
- sheeshman
  
  That’s good because there’s no such thing as Virgin Air.
https://me.yahoo.com/callmemisscleo#503b4 misscleocallmenow

Also, Virgin.
http://www.drake.org.uk Martyn Drake

Aircraft with real paying passengers, or did they commandeer a private aircraft for this? As a paying customer I would have been somewhat miffed by the shoot – especially if I were trying to get some sleep. If they commandeered their own aircraft for the duration of the filming, it seems somewhat environmentally unfriendly to me..