Posts: 49139 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-24-2022 08:23 PM
"Becoming an Astronaut," an ambitious documentary that will focus on four new astronauts who will be announced by the European Space Agency (ESA) this November, has won the Focal Audience & Market Strategies pitching event at the Zurich Film Festival, reports Variety.
Produced by Franziska Sonder of Ensemble Film and set to be directed by Roman Hodel, who made a splash with his 2020 short documentary "The Game," "Becoming an Astronaut" will follow the astronauts, chosen by ESA after an exhaustive selection processes that included more than 22,500 applicants, over a four-year period in an ongoing competition to see who will be first to travel to space. Sonder has gained unprecedented access to ESA for the project.