Film Treatment for: The Jimmie Angel Story

TITLE:  The Jimmie Angel Story 

WRITER/CONTACT:  Rob Fulfer - robfulfer@yahoo.com - 615-260-0916

LOGLINE: Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world, was "discovered" by and named for pilot, Jimmie Angel, an American aviator in 1933.  Angel, his wife and two other passengers returned to the Venezuelan falls in 1937 and crash-landed on the remote table-top mountain that the falls descend from.  A harrowing 11-day journey by foot got them back to civilization safely. 

OPENING SCENE:  A soaring reenactment of the historic first siting of what would become known as Angel Falls from the cockpit of Jimmie Angel's plane.  

ACT ONE:  Broke aviator, Jimmie Angel, gets an intriguing offer from a wealthy gentleman in a bar in Panama to fly him to Venezuela in search of gold.  There is gold found, but also an amazing natural wonder.   When his rich, wealthy benefactor does not return for more flights as promised, Jimmie's back at square one again. 

ACT TWO:  Despite Jimmie's claims of the wonders in the Venezuela mountains, no one believes him or take him very seriously since his reputation as a bit of a con-man fly about more than he does.  He enlists his wife and friends to go with him a few years later and they crash-land atop the mountain above the falls and have a difficult 11-day journey out on foot but do survive.  

ACT THREE:  After a Jimmie's untimely death, his ashes are scattered by his family at Angel Falls.  Ten years later his plane is removed from atop the mountain and reassembled at the nearby airport in his honor. 

FINAL SCENE:  A young Pemon boy of the indigenous tribes there in the region gazes up at the falls from the base reminding us that they were here long before Jimmie and his exploits.  

CHARACTER LIST:   Jimmie Angel 

                                       The "Old Man"

                                        Jimmy's wife, Marie 

                                        Gustavo Heny - a passenger on Jimmie's crash-landing

                                        Miguel Delgado - another passenger on Jimmie's crash-landing 

BACKSTORY/RESEARCH:  There are some books on Jimmie Angel's life and his "discovery" of Angel Falls, but none that have been put to film of his amazing story that I am aware of. 

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