LOGLINE: A loner pigeon, named Paulie Pigone, has a history of getting in trouble for street racing. Trouble catches up to him again and he finds himself faced with serving time in the bird cage or joining the Air Corps. He takes the challenge and learns hard lessons about his personal limits, what it means to be a part of a team, and what it takes to become a hero in the high-flying family film ACES. 

SYNOPSIS: Aces is an animated feature that shows the world from a bird’s eye view and tells the story of a cocky, rebellious, Cool Hand Luke-type of pigeon, named Paulie Pigone. Paulie has spent his life in the city, raised by this mother and watched over by his father’s old wingman from the Air Corps. Paulie tries to do things his own way, a loner in his arrogance and his ability to outmaneuver nearly every bird in the sky. However, he gets into legal trouble after crashing during an aerial race and wakes up in the bird cage. At his trial, he is given the option to serve time in the cage or join the Air Corps. Paulie finds himself in basic training with birds from all over the country, from all flocks. He’s outside of his comfortable world of city pigeons. Not only must he learn how to fly with a fighter helmet and oxygen tank, he has to learn that he can’t take on the world alone. He has to learn to be part of a team as we build into his squad’s first mission, a rescue mission to save three squirrel brothers from Gegner, who has taken them hostage and is ransoming the squirrels for a winter food supply. Where Paulie was once self-serving, he learns to become the hero who would sacrifice anything to help his wingmen first. He learns to serve something greater than himself and gets to become better than he ever could on his own in Aces.