“Coco Chanel: Unbuttoned” director Hannah Berryman has set her latest documentary, about Nasa’s first female spacecraft commander Eileen Collins.
The feature-length doc is based on Collins’ memoir, “Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars,” which was co-written by Collins and Jonathan H. Ward.
According to the logline, it will focus on “the extraordinary achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving the way for the next generation of female space explorers.”
“Eileen’s journey from an underprivileged childhood in small town America to becoming the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle is a fascinating one,” said Berryman. “The emotional drama of her family’s tale is just as gripping as the risks the shuttle astronauts like Eileen had to take.”
Collins said: “I am enormously excited to be involved with this film project. It is more than my personal journey...
The feature-length doc is based on Collins’ memoir, “Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars,” which was co-written by Collins and Jonathan H. Ward.
According to the logline, it will focus on “the extraordinary achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving the way for the next generation of female space explorers.”
“Eileen’s journey from an underprivileged childhood in small town America to becoming the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle is a fascinating one,” said Berryman. “The emotional drama of her family’s tale is just as gripping as the risks the shuttle astronauts like Eileen had to take.”
Collins said: “I am enormously excited to be involved with this film project. It is more than my personal journey...
- 2/6/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
While “Hidden Figures” explored the progress of black women behind the scenes as the U.S. launched the first man into space, the Netflix-produced documentary “Mercury 13” probes another struggle for inclusion taking place at the same time — the attempt by several woman to make the cut as astronauts. Unfolding as a series of tests in 1958 as Nasa prepared for Project Mercury, the experiments on the eponymous 13 women have received far less exposure than the stories surrounding the Nasa excursions themselves, but this straightforward, informative documentary provides an efficient historical revision, arguing that the bracing stories of the first men to enter space aren’t complete without an acknowledgement of the women stuck on Earth.
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An engaging blend of modern-day interviews and archival footage, “Mercury 13” complicates the traditional narrative of triumph surrounding the Mercury missions of the ‘60s and their culmination with the moon landing. The surviving members...
- 4/9/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Things got tense on the floor of the Republican National Convention Wednesday night as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz used his coveted prime-time speech to pointedly not endorse the delegates' nominee, Donald Trump. Instead, Cruz told his fellow Republicans voters: "To those listening, please, don’t stay home in November. Stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution." Cruz had felt increased pressure in the past few weeks to endorse Trump, but couldn't bring himself to do so after so...
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- by Linda Marx, @LindaRoz
- PEOPLE.com
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- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
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