Photoplay Films director Andrew Lancaster’s feature documentary ‘My Great Uncle – The Lost Aviators’ in the final stages of completion

Photoplay Films have announced that Andrew Lancaster’s feature documentary My Great Uncle – The Lost Aviators is in the final stages of completion.

This is the larger-than-life story of Lancaster’s great uncle, Captain Bill Lancaster, whose adventures back in the ’20s and ’30s read more like a Hollywood script than a real life documentary.

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Bill Lancaster set aviation world records, was embroiled in drug running and later acquitted of murder. His death is the real life English Patient: Bill Lancaster’s mummified body was only to be discovered in 1962 beside a crashed plane in the depth of the Sahara Desert, along with a passionate love letter to Jessie ‘Chubbie’ Miller dated 1933, the year of the crash and ultimately his death. The story of his great uncle is something that Andrew has known and grown up with all of his life. Over the last two years however,  Andrew has been travelling the world retracing the journeys of Bill Lancaster, interviewing the people and piecing together the evidence to find out what really happened to Bill Lancaster and whether he was in fact a murderer.

This is an epic and compelling true adventure story with a love triangle and murder trial that will keep the audience guessing. The feature documentary has been a labour of love by all involved, and with interest from international festivals and broadcasters already, it will certainly find its audience.