First You are a child. Later You become a television producer. Then You discover You once were a child. Then You decide to decipher the myth, the history, the truth of Your own life and tell it to others on television. These programs defy the rules of objective journalism. Instead, they give us sensitive discoveries of the heart and the mind and enrich our expectations... In GROWING UP WITH ROCKETS, the producer reacalls the early days of Cape Canaveral, before the space age, then, before the Space Race became Star Wars... when her high-school principles were in competition with astronauts-target: the would-be producer child’s mind... The French press did not exactly go into raptures after DIE FOR PUMERNICKEL was broadcasted in France: a young French director traveling to Jerusalem to tackle the complex realities of religions and politics of this ancient city... A recent graduate of the Munich Film School devotes his first work to a journey in time: projecting his won teenage years into the nineteen-rotes, he attempts to come to terms with his own youth by trying to understand his FATHER’S WAR...
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“Rockets” is a first-person story of America’s space program told by a girl who grows up near Cape Canaveral, Florida. By cross-referencing national… -
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