FADE IN:

INT. HOTEL -- NIGHT
POV: Knees to floor.

The front doors of the hotel open and we see ERIC'S legs as he walks into the hotel.
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"Flying Free is about conquering the greatest of all of life's difficulties... ourselves. It's about the journey of discovering who we are, whether we find that person at twenty-four, as Joshua does, or... at eighty-four... as Zach does.

"When I wrote the original novel, I was seventeen years-old, and depressed. It was really quite incredible the way it happened. I literally woke up one day and decided to go buy a typewriter because I was feeling inspired to write.

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Almost three months and three hundred pages later, not only was I not depressed anymore, but I had written a full novel. At the time, I didn't realize what an accomplishment that was for a seventeen year-old kid.

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And so begins "Flying Free," a new film from Writer/Director Daniel F. Scherl. A story of hope, friendship, love, and the triumph of human will, that unfolds in a way that is both captivating... and breathtaking.

The movie tells the story of two groups of people living in the same town, all of whom, have had to deal with some kind of loss, and one night, their lives cross... and they are forever changed.

"I think that one of the great strengths of this story," says Daniel F. Scherl, "is that there is something in it that almost everyone can identify with.