About Tristan Loraine

Tristan Loraine was a British Airways captain when he was ill health retired after breathing contaminated air on aircraft, a year after completing them Ironman Triathlon. Keen to tell his story and increase public awareness of a design flaw in aircraft; he retrained at Raindance and the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and set up his production banner Fact Not Fiction Films in 2006.
by Tristan Loraine | 5 January, 2021 | Raindance Success Stories
Everybody flies has been a massive success… Where does the air you breathe on a plane come from? Do you know? I was ill health retired as an airline Captain from exposures to contaminated air on aircraft. Something passengers are never told about and know very...
by Tristan Loraine | 2 March, 2020 | Documentary, Filmmaking, Interviews
In 2015 I had just finished the independent feature ‘A Dark Reflection.’ The film was a feature film based on the ongoing issue of contaminated air on aircraft. The last film to be shot on Fuji 35mm and was Britain’s biggest co-operative film. Everyone worked on the...
by Tristan Loraine | 28 February, 2020 | Documentary, Filmmaking, Interviews, Raindance Film Festival
When you sit on a plane, do you ever ask yourself where the air you breathe comes from? On all aircraft, apart from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the breathing air comes from the engines and is supplied totally unfiltered to crews and passengers. This air is known as...