The film director Christina Costanti leaves the Sandans Film Festival with a prize with the already guaranteed distribution of her documentary film SallyAbout the late space journey Sally, the first American woman in space.
Costantini won the ALFRED P. Sloan Film Award, a prize that was chosen by a jury of filmmakers and science and “presented to a wonderful feature film that focuses on science or technology as a subject, or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematics scientist like a major personality.”
Sally Reid, who received a PhD in Stanford before joining the NASA space shuttle program in the late 1970s, is more than a qualification according to the Slun Prize criteria. But the documentary is much more than just a recitation of RIDE accreditation data. She is also the story of her long relationship with her romantic partner Tam O’shaughenessy, a love journey that kept secret until her death.
Costantini joins the latest episode of PodCast Dok Talk in Deadline to discuss her movie, which is expected to be released later in the year by Films Films National Geographic. The director reveals how Sally and completely moved in their relationship at a time when gay came out that would have sink any chance to ride him to destroy the glass ceiling to explore space. She explains how the great tennis experience, Billy Jean -King, informed Ride’s decision to maintain her private life, especially.
Also this week’s episode, we are talking to another movie director who just came out of its first show in the world of Sandans: Violet du Feng, director Dating game. Her movie examines an amazing fact for Chinese men of marriage age – many are very keen to find a companion, but with men the number of women (due to a single child’s policy and the cultural preference specified for male offspring), the possibilities are going against them.
The director follows many young people who are trying to enhance their marketing capacity as potential couples by requesting the advice of the dating coach. The film extends with humorous and influential moments, while skillfully presented a deep image of contemporary Chinese society at a time of great demographic and cultural change.
This is in the new edition of Doc Talk, co -hosted by the Oscar winner John Ridley (12 years old, Sherley), Carrie, the documentary editor on the deadline. Doc Talk is the production date and Ridley’s Nō.
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