Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY (July 30, 2026) — Wild State, the production company co-founded by Chris Hemsworth and Ben Grayson, has boarded Unreasonable Studios’ feature documentary LEARNING TO FLY ahead of the film’s theatrical release this August. Wild State’s Ben Grayson, Kevin Joseph and Andy Mininger will serve as executive producers.
The film, from director Max Lowe (Torn, Camp Courage), Academy Award-winning producer Evan Hayes (Free Solo), and producer Katy Chevigny (Dick Johnson is Dead), is the story of former competitive runner turned photographer Aisha McAdams — and her journey back to herself through the world of elite ultra marathon running.
LEARNING TO FLY had its world premiere at last year’s Telluride Film Festival and will be released in theaters in the US beginning August 21 including the Angelika Film Center in New York and the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Los Angeles. Theaters and showtimes are listed on the film website at www.learningtoflydoc.com. Following its theatrical run, the film will launch globally on Amazon Prime Video.
“Learning to Fly sits exactly at the intersection of what Wild State was built to champion,” said Wild State’s Joseph. “The film perfectly embodies our belief in documenting what it takes to pursue your passions — whether on the ultra-marathon trail, or just getting outside for a run in your neighborhood.”
Produced by Unreasonable Studios, LEARNING TO FLY follows McAdams as she sets out to document elite competitors — among them Jim Walmsley, Rod Farvard, and Eszter Csillag — at the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of Eastern California and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) in the French Alps. Running had given Aisha a sense of freedom, joy, and belonging as a young person — before trauma and mental health challenges forced her to walk away from the sport she loved. Immersed now in the world of these elite athletes, she begins to wonder whether she might find her way back. Her answer is to enter an ultra-marathon of her own.
The film’s emotional throughline is resilience — Aisha’s, and that of her subjects. It is a film about what it takes to believe in yourself again after you’ve been broken, and its answer arrives in a coda that is worth the wait.
