The Flying Sailor is a 2022 Canadian independent[1] animated short film directed by Oscar-nominated directors[2] Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.

[8] When a nearby ship explodes, a sailor is launched on an unexpected existential voyage.

The last credit states the film is dedicated to "Charlie Mayers - A Sailor who, in the Halifax Explosion of 1917, flew over 2 kilometers and lived to tell about it.

"[11][12] Charles Mayers was an officer aboard the SS Middleham Castle, a ship moored at a wharf in Halifax Harbour on the morning of the explosion.

Mayers was blow from the ship's deck to land on Fort Needham Hill overlooking the harbour, injured and naked but alive.