NHK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL + Sundance Institute/NHK Award
2014
 "Ad Inexplorata" |
Ad Inexplorata
USA
NASA Astronaut William D. Stanaforth is aboard the spaceship Zephyr, waiting to launch. Technical delays have stranded him for days, threatening to scrub his mission. A lifelong prankster and adventurer, Stanaforth cuts his frustration with dark humor, and finally conceives a daring workaround that will get him going. He launches—on a one-way mission to Mars.
In the decades since Apollo 11 landed on the moon, space exploration's relevance in our society has been questioned, leading some to ask what happened to our sheer sense of wonder and curiosity. But here, at last, man is daring to go back to space, and to go further than ever before.
[DIRECTOR]
Mark Elijah Rosenberg
writer/director
Mark Elijah Rosenberg is the Founder and Artistic Director of Rooftop Films, a New York-based non-profit organization whose mission is to engage diverse communities through the medium of film. As a curator and filmmaker, he has programmed for festivals around the world and produced and directed numerous short films. Rosenberg recently co-produced and co-directed Orbit (Film), an omnibus movie about our solar system, and is also developing a screenplay about a man who suddenly realizes he has the power of telekinesis. He is an outfielder for the New York Giants amateur baseball team, a receiver on the nationally-traveling NYGFL flag football team, and the proud father of a dog named Rizzo.
