BLUE SPACE (Work-in-Progress Screening)
ABOUT
Ian Cheney’s film explores the terraforming of Mars and the waterways of New York City. As scientists unlock strategies for warming and colonizing the frigid red planet, waterfront dwellers of America’s largest city grapple with the legacies of pollution and the specter of rising seas here on Earth. Blending science fiction themes with atmospheric soundscapes and cinematography, the film features gritty portraits of waterfolk alongside interviews with sci-fi authors, inventors and self-proclaimed “space farmers.”
Director Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated & Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, including King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020). He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in Maine.
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