BLAST!

Documentary, US, 2008, 74 minutes

Director: Paul Devlin

Producer: Claire Missanelli

Claire Missanelli in attendance!

BLAST! is astrophysics Indiana Jones style, a wildly entertaining adventure story that flies around the world and across the universe following a group of scientists as they try to launch a revolutionary new telescope by using a balloon.  Five-time Emmy-Award-winner Paul Devlin follows his brother, Mark Devlin, PhD, as he leads the group’s effort to peer into the past and study the origins of… everything. They go from Arctic Sweden to Inuit country in Canada, where catastrophe forces them to try all over again on the desolate ice in Antarctica.  But what’s most surprising is the number of subjects the film explores: family relationships, the existence of God, the tensions between religion and science, the price of success (and failure), and much, much more. This is a must-see, with no science diploma required.

Producer Claire Missanelli co-produced POWER TRIP, which won two jury awards at the Berlin Film Festival, eight awards at other festivals, and was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award, as well as SUPER STAR DUMB and SLAMNATION, a documentary about the slam poetry movement shown on HBO/Cinemax and Encore/Starz.  She also works as a consulting and outreach producer for documentary projects. 

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