{"id":1193,"date":"2013-03-17T23:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2013-03-19T05:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T05:38:54","slug":"lunarcy-documentary-film-about-moon-atics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Lunarcy! &#8211; documentary film about Moon-atics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunarcy%21\" target=\"_d\">Lunarcy!<\/a> is a<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Simon Ennis, and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Ron Mann, Jonah Bekhor. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2012 and is headed for worldwide circulation through German Screen. The film draws from a cast of real people who each have a unique connection to the moon, to include an astronaut who once walked on the moon and a person who claims personal ownership of the moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is playing currently at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org\/films\/show\/991\" target=\"_d\">Environmental Film Festival in the Nation&#8217;s Capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmswelike.com\/films\/lunarcy\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunarcy! &#8211; FilmsWeLike.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tiff.net\/filmsandschedules\/tiff\/2012\/lunarcy\" target=\"_d\">Lunarcy! | tiff.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2319002\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunarcy! (2012) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the trailer:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKHGme0j3k0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Jeff Foust went to see the film and posted this comments on it at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_foust\" target=\"_d\">jeff_foust on Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Went to see &#8220;Lunarcy!&#8221; this evening in DC. Pleasantly surprised. Expected some ridicule &amp; snark, but was more of an honest character study.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The director, Simon Ennis, said in a post-screening Q&amp;A he&#8217;s a big fan of commercial space. &#8220;I&#8217;d love to go to space!&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A few scenes were filmed at the Space Access conference in Phoenix. Ennis does not have fond memories of the Grace Inn.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunarcy! is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Simon Ennis, and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Ron Mann, Jonah Bekhor. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2012 and is headed for worldwide circulation through German Screen. The film draws from a cast of real people who each have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunarcy! &#8211; documentary film about Moon-atics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-films-and-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-jf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11905,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11905","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":0},"title":"Video: Trailer for &#8220;The Last Man on the Moon&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement of\u00a0a new documentary about Gene Cernan: Gravitas Ventures and Mark Stewart Productions to Distribute the Last Man on The Moon Documentary Chronicling Astronaut Eugene \u201cGene\u201d Cernan to Land February 2016; trailer also available Los Angeles\/London \u2013 On this day forty-three years ago, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene \u201cGene\u201d Cernan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/hd628qa8mN4\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8635,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8635","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;The Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Road to the Stars&#8221; &#8211; Soviet space films","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article about \u00a0two documentary style films about spaceflight made in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s by director\u00a0Pavel Klushantsev\u00a0: \u00a0This is (maybe) how we\u2019d have colonised the Moon if the Soviet Union had got there first - New Statesman. 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