This documentary is about a man who wants to travel to one of the most inaccessible islands in the world. But since no one seems to know about the island, he wants to make a movie about it, even though he’s just an average kite seller with no movie experience.
But getting to Pitcairn isn’t easy, and he might not be the only one wanting to go there. There is no airport on Pitcairn Island and the only way to get there is by boat.
Another difficulty was that Julian McDonnell had to do the job alone with several cameras. One of the most amazing things about Pitcairn is that only 50 people live there, all descendants of the handful of English sailors (and their Tahitian wives) who hijacked a ship called The Bounty in 1789 escaped after the ship. They use this deserted island as their hiding place.
“The Bounty” became so famous that many movies were made about it…with Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins and Marlon Brando. The Mutiny on the Bounty was a huge media event at the time, and these sailors became the most notorious deserters in British naval history.
Like all great adventures, it begins in a tavern in the town of Ramsgate in Wapping, London, which legend has it may have been the bounty captain Captain Bligh and his crew on their voyage to the South Pacific.
Of course, after openly rebelling and fleeing, they knew they would be executed if caught, so they had to find a place to go undetected, which is why they ended up on Pitcairn. They set fire to their ship and lived there for the rest of their lives… never to be seen again.
