Midair Productions
Midair Productions
Films that open the human heart, evoke curiosity and understanding, and make people feel seen.
Midair Productions is currently working on its first feature film Passing….
Honoring the last wishes of their mother, a fractured family must come together and spread her ashes in the Grand Canyon. All the while meeting with Mama in other dimensions, passing through space and time as they process their loss.
“We leave God’s belly to land in the cradle called World, filled with milk we fall asleep, wake up forgetting who we are, where we came from, how we got to this dozy earth bed. We don’t even remember we can fly up above every cloud, galaxy and more. “
Passing is told in the style Magical Realism. Throughout the script, each character fades from our current reality into another. These realities are not a dream or a vision, they are just as real as this moment you and I are in right now.
In these moments, they speak with Mama about love and loss and every emotion they are feeling. The transitions to these moments are seamless. A character will be washing their face in a diner bathroom and bring their head up to the surroundings of a great big ocean that they visited with Mama as a child. Each character visits places that are significant to them. These scenes of magical realism articulate the pain and grief that each character is going through.
“Sometimes I feel like I’m floating in and out of existence. I’m here and than I’m not. I feel quite disconnected from whatever this reality is, so I go somewhere else, because feeling can be too much.”
“To be seen is a beautiful thing. Passing speaks honestly about loss. It doesn’t sugar coat how truly awful it is. I remember being so angry after my mom died, because people expected so many things from me, and all I wanted was time. Time to feel this hurt and loss. Time to figure out who I was without her. People telling me that it would get better made it all worse. I knew that it would, even if it didn’t feel that way. But when I talked to the people I loved, we were real and honest with each other about how much it hurt. How broken we felt. How difficult getting out of bed and making coffee was.
Passing has this honesty because for me, there is no other way to talk about grief.”
“We all want to be seen, plucked from the branch, ripe and beheld.”
“Passing has two leading LGBTQ+ leading roles. Aidan, who identifies as Queer, and Alex who identifies as non-binary. Representation is very important to me. I want LGBTQ+ people to feel like we are seen on screen. I want this film available especially to the LGBTQ+ community because it proves that we can be the leads of films without the main plot being about queer trauma, that we can be accepted and loved without question. The family in passing is also multi-racial. Aidan and Alex are both adopted. Being seen on screen to me also includes diversity. Growing up, most of the people I saw in TV were white and cisgender. Passing is a step forward into change. The importance of seeing someone on screen who looks like you is just as important as seeing situations on screen that are similar to what you have been through.”
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