Headwaters Film Festival Features Winners of NASA’s 2015 CineSpace Competition

March 28, 2016

Photo taken by Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station. Courtesy of NASA.
Photo taken by Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station. Courtesy of NASA.

Scott-Kelly-300x300Starting with a pre-recorded introduction from astronaut Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station, screenings of the top three finishers and two special category honorees from NASA’s 2015 CineSpace competition highlights the second day of Bemidji State’s fourth Headwaters Film Festival. The CineSpace screenings begin at 2 p.m. on April 1.

CineSpace offers filmmakers around the world with an opportunity to share their works inspired by, and using, actual NASA imagery. A question-and-answer session will follow the screenings.

Films to be screened include:

  • Higher Ground, by Mary Magsamen and Stephen Hillerbrand of Houston, Texas. This film won the 2015 competition and is embedded below.
  • Mission Avante, by Fernando Dueñas Peña of Bogota, Colombia
  • Le Voyage, by Alexandre B. Lampron of Laval, Quebec, Canada

BSU’s Headwaters Film Festival is an entirely student-run endeavor. Nearly 30 students have worked to produce the 2016 festival, which includes screenings of international student films, a Skype session with Jamie Holt, producer of Lady Gaga’s video for the Academy Award-nominated single “’Til It Happens To You,” screenings of 2015 winners from NASA’s CineSpace film competition, and feature films each night.