The trailer for Farewell which will make its North American Premiere at the 2010 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
This alluring and romantic doc recreates, through stunning archival footage and intimate journal entries, Lady Grace Drummond-Hay’s exhilarating and tumultuous experience as the only female passenger on the Graf Zeppelin’s 1929 around-the-world voyage. During the long and eventful flight, Lady Grace—a star reporter for Hearst Press renowned for her intelligence, beauty, and wit—becomes distracted by a personal quest: to meet with her secret lover, co-passenger and colleague Karl von Wiegand. When the Zeppelin finally lands in New York, the couple is separated and Grace is transformed into a cinema star. In 1929, people were convinced the airship’s journey was a turning point in history. A few weeks later, Wall Street crashed and a dark period in history began. Farewell is a dazzling evocation of this poignant historical moment and an enthralling portrait of a fascinating woman