INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS

2007 Festival of Cinema & Technology  USA

2005 FILMSTOCK International Film Festival  UK

2007 Red Shift Film Festival USA

2005 West Chester Short Film Festival USA

2005 International Science Film Festival Hungary

2005 Festival der Nationen Austria

Premiered at the IFP Buzz Cuts

Pioneer Theater, New York, May 10, 2005

Selected as top ten in Esquire Celluloid Film Competition.

SYNOPSIS

Tom is an astronaut who in 2049 goes on the second mission to Mars.  Just a few days before the start of his mission he meets the love of his life - Maria.  Going farther away from Earth during his complex and risky space travel Tom starts to experience serious psychological difficulties.  Close confinement, isolation and inability to remain in touch with Maria make him shut down communications with the mission control.  The enduring test does not cease even upon his return from a 70 million-mile journey.

The seven-minute love-story of Tom and Maria is based on a number of real-life cases of dangerous psychological challenges experienced by astronauts during long space assignments or by researchers staying in remote areas such as Antarctica.

Short film (16mm), 7’, 2005, USA

Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor:

Andrei Severny

Crew: Zack Kimmel, Alberto D’Allara,

Jodie Taylor, Anthony Laura

Cast: Laila Lemhadden, Russel Smith

Voice Over: Peter DuPre