LOGLINE

A jaded flight attendant navigates tough passengers, coworker drama and her nepo-baby CEO as she moves to unionize a budget regional airline.

Why Make Rapid Air?

We want to make a broad-appeal workplace comedy rooted in lefty politics with funny jokes that always punch up. For viewers with similar politics as us, we hope Rapid Air is a relatable, funny show that doubles as a realistic playbook for gaining worker power. At the same time, we want it to be funny and relatable and digestible enough for those on the right of us--those who can correctly identify America's problems but incorrectly identify the solutions. Maybe it can change some minds, or at least have some people question the anti-union propaganda that is so deeply ingrained in America’s society.

Meet the Crew

Yolanda

Yoli has been a flight attendant for Rapid Airlines for 9 years. She's 34, Latina, and she grew up outside of Portland, Maine. She was the Portland rep in the unionization effort that recently failed. She likes her job, and is good at it, but lately Yoli feels like nothing she does can really make a difference. For years Yoli has defended the idea of Rapid Airlines, which currently has a terrible reputation. But she’s finding it harder to defend these days.

Kate

Kate is Yoli's best friend, they worked together a lot when Kate was a Rapid gate agent at PWM. Kate took a transfer to Detroit a couple years back, wanting a change of scenery from Maine. She signed the union card in the last unionization effort.

Jon

Jon's a 20-something Rapid Airlines flight attendant based out of Orlando. He's a hunky jock who wanted to be a flight attendant for the free travel. He's got a thing for Yoli, but then again, he has a thing for a lot of women.

Rob

Rob's a 30-something janitor at the Detroit airport. He's also the SEIU Local 1 Secretary-Treasurer, the youngest officer in the union's history. He and Kate became good friends. He's got a thing for Yoli as well, but doesn't want to ruin the friendship. Plus, he's tied to Detroit–he'd love to run for City Council one day.

Rapid Airlines

Rapid is a ULCC akin to a Spirit Airlines. Their main hub and HQ are in Detroit and they serve non-stop flights to a surprisingly large amount of cities in the eastern US, eastern Canada and the Caribbean.

Valairian

Valairian is a luxury airline with a reputation for serving elites. They’re known for their long-distance service to Europe, Hong Kong, and Dubai through their hub in New York.

Eddie Krismas

Eddie is the 30-something hotshot son of the original CEO, Ted Krismas. Eddie dropped out of Stanford to take the gig (or did he just fail all of his classes?) and fancies himself as a budding Zuckerberg or Musk.

Jeffrey from HR

Jeffrey’s a bit of a useful idiot for corporate. He’s been at Rapid for a while and is well-enough off where he does his job and goes home. He’s means well but he sides with the higher-ups every time. They gave him a bonus a few years back and he bought a jet ski with it.

The Pilot

S01E01

We meet Yolanda 6 months out from a failed unionization attempt. Rapid fired her mentor, one of the leaders of the effort, and Yoli has been stuck in a rut since. Management and the nepo-baby, Silicon-Valley-wannabe CEO implement a new employee app to schedule shifts, buy inventory and handle employee complaints. In doing so, they "restructured" whole departments with big layoffs.

The app and the layoffs are not received well by the employees, Yoli and her Detroit gate worker friend Kate think this might be something to rally around to try to unionize again.

Meanwhile Yoli is juggling love interests. She has a hook-up history with fellow flight-attendant Jon, a young hunky jock type that is starting to grow on her. But, she develops a crush on her Detroit janitor friend Rob, who's an officer in the SEIU local and has bigger political ambitions.

Making the Pilot

We think the best path to make multiple seasons of this show is to start with the pilot as a proof of concept to shop it around. So we're raising money to shoot the best episode we can. We think we can shoot it in 4 days in LA.

Who are we?

Alan Duda

Alan's worked in advertising for over 10 years and to offset that he volunteers his skillsets to various DSA chapters and political campaigns. During his time in advertising he's been on lots of shoots, large and small. Although most of his time is spent in video village and crafty, he PA'd a few times when he was between jobs as well.

Erik Duda

Erik's a documentary filmmaker based in LA. In his most recent role as the Video Production Manager at The University of Virginia, he created 70+ short videos with an average of 100,000 views.

Erik served as the director, executive producer, and editor of the feature documentary "The Lives Between the Lines." This documentary chronicles the powerful narrative of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA. The 50 minute film chronicles the years of work from students, faculty, and staff who fought to honor the enslaved laborers who built and sustained daily life at the University of Virginia until emancipation in 1865. It was accepted into numerous film festivals and won “Best Virginia Film” at the Richmond International Film Festival. The film's continued success has led to multiple universities across the country inquiring for licensing rights for internal educational use, public screenings and discussions with regional community members, and has generally provided ways in which art and documentary filmmaking can educate and inspire communities to enact change.

Sarah Wells

Sarah's gonna DP I think and she's also gonna write a lil bio when she sees this.

Ben Gaudette

Ben's gonna be a writer/story editor I think and he's gonna write a lil bio when he sees this.

You

We need help. And money. We want to work with like-minded folks who are excited about this vision. Folks that can punch up the jokes that punch up. If that sounds like you let's talk! Drop us a line via the form below.

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