{"id":13789,"date":"2017-01-23T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:11:52","slug":"the-mars-generation-documentary-debuts-at-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13789","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mars Generation&#8221; &#8211; Documentary debuts at Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americanfilmshowcase.com\/michael-barnett\/\" target=\"_d\">Michael Barnett<\/a>\u00a0has a new :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/home\/4789241-155\/teen-rocket-scientists-star-at-sundances?fullpage=1\" target=\"_d\">Teen rocket scientists star at Sundance&#8217;s SLC opening | The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Space exploration offers humans the chance to survive as a species.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><em>That&#8217;s the unifying message offered by Michael Barnett&#8217;s &#8220;The Mars Generation,&#8221; which focuses on the funny, smart teenage wannabe rocket scientists attending the U.S. Space and Rocket Center&#8217;s Space Camp. Along the way, the documentary offers an inspiring call to action as it details America&#8217;s past and future space dreams.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><em>The Friday night screening marked the Salt Lake City opening of the Sundance Film Festival. The &#8220;Mars Generation&#8221; premiere on Inauguration Day seemed significant, the director said, because he hopes it will jump-start a conversation about space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now is not the time to become nearsighted about the big idea of becoming interplanetary,&#8221; Barnett said. &#8220;This film is about the generation who is going to take us to Mars \u2014 if they are empowered to do so.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\">More at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheMarsGenerationMovie\/\" target=\"_d\">The Mars Generation Movie &#8211; Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=42903991&amp;nid=1205\" target=\"_d\">3 family films coming out of 2017 Sundance Film Festival | KSL.com (incl. video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/whatnottodoc.com\/2017\/01\/16\/2017-sundance-docs-in-focus-the-mars-generation\/\" target=\"_d\">2017 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE MARS GENERATION<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6333096\/combined\" target=\"_d\">The Mars Generation (2017) &#8211; IMDB<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"TEXT_w_Indent\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker\u00a0Michael Barnett\u00a0has a new :\u00a0Teen rocket scientists star at Sundance&#8217;s SLC opening | The Salt Lake Tribune Space exploration offers humans the chance to survive as a species. That&#8217;s the unifying message offered by Michael Barnett&#8217;s &#8220;The Mars Generation,&#8221; which focuses on the funny, smart teenage wannabe rocket scientists attending the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Mars Generation&#8221; &#8211; Documentary debuts at Sundance<\/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":[78,39,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-films-and-videos","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Ap","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9649,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9649","url_meta":{"origin":13789,"position":0},"title":"Kickstarter: &#8220;Fight for Space&#8221; documentary","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Fight For Space\u00a0is a documentary about human space exploration and space policy and the\u00a0looking for money to complete the film and release it for distribution\u00a0: \u00a0Fight for Space: NASA & Human Spaceflight (Finishing Funds) by Paul Hildebrandt \u2014 Kickstarter In August of 2012, we raised $100k here on Kickstarter. 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