Snowbird was the inaugural project for Bottle of Smoke Films. With a short film script in hand, Pat and Dev set about raising the budget in March 2024. The cameras started rolling on June 1st.

Logline: A self-taught rocket scientist invites a big city journalist out into the desert to cover a launch that will prove, once and for all, that the Earth is flat.

Shot in four days – a half day on a sound stage in Los Angeles, followed by three and a half grueling days in the desert – Snowbird was equal parts love and ambition. Some would say the film shot for the moon, but as Lyle famously said, “The moon is not a variable in our experiment. We’d never make it.”

Snowbird is available to stream on the Bottle of Smoke YouTube channel.