Oakville, ON-based AeroCinema and Aerostar TV of France are teaming up to produce the new original documentary series Women and Wings. 

The series (6 x 46 minutes) will focus on women and aviation, with episodes covering the rivalry between American Jacqueline Cochrane and France’s Jacqueline Auriol as they battled to break the world speed records, as well as women in air forces in WWII and in the Indochina war. The series will also include the world’s contemporary female aerobatics champions, Concord pilots and astronauts.

Women and Wings is the first in a series of co-productions for Canadian aviation channel AeroCinema and France’s Aerostar TV, part of a recently announced production and distribution agreement.

While Osborn told Playback Daily that the company is open to working with Canadian production companies to produce new aviation-focused content, he said the bulk of the channel’s content is produced in-house. He added that the two companies are particularly focused on producing more content around women in aviation – a topic he said has been “incredibly overlooked.”

AeroCinema currently produces about 40 hours per year of aviation content, he said. As part of the new distribution agreement, AeroCinema will also have access to AeroStar’s catalogue. AeroStar also produces roughly 40 hours of content per year, said Osborn.

Phil Osborn, CEO of AeroCinema, told Playback sister pub, realscreen, in an email that working with Aerostar is beneficial to AeroCinema, as they can access each other’s home continents, including markets and production resources. “This, in turn, leads to major economic and cultural advantages for both parties,” Osborn said.

With files from Selina Chignall, Realscreen