Thomas Verrette (USA), Zero Gravity, Doc Feature – Deft direction, excellent production and skillful pacing bring to life the story of a diverse group of middle-school students from California who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station. Thoroughly engaging and poignant stories of the special kids whose lives are changed by the challenge.
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Woods Hole Film Festival
July 30 - Aug 6, 2022
Woods Hole, MA
Guam International Film Festival
Oct 7 - 9, 2022
Hagåtña, Guam
Discover Film Festival (Scotland)
Oct 22 - Nov 6, 2022
Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Berkshire International Film Festival
June 2 – 6 , 2022
Berkshire, MA
Vero Beach Film Festival
June 9 – 15, 2022
Vero Beach, FL
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“Zero Gravity wins as a film because it beautifully involves us with these bright and appealing kids, their families, and their teacher, and with how reaching toward space affects them. It also wins by subtly showing the power of teamwork, and the benefits of diversity within a team.”
- Sloan Science and Film
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Audience Choice Award - Friday Harbor Film Festival
Critics Choice Award - Iowa Independent Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary - Desertscape International Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary - Only The Best International Film Awards
Award of Excellence Special Mention: Feature Documentary - IndieFest Film Awards
Gold Remi Award, Feature Documentary - Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
Honorable Mention, Feature Documentary - New Jersey Film Festival...
Zero Gravity United States : Outstanding Excellence
in Science, Editing (sub-category), Original Score (sub-category), Viewer Impact: Motivational/Inspirational (sub-category)
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28 important festival selections announced so far for Zero Gravity one of the Best for Fests!
CINEQUEST 2021 world Premiere
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WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
16 April 2021
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OTB | Only The Best Film Awards
May 31, 2021
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THE 2021 DESERTSCAPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!
Wednesday, June 23rd, through Saturday, June 26th, 2021, at the historic Electric Theater in lovely Southern Utah!
St. George, UT--as well as a handful of its beautiful surrounding areas-- represents grand desert country at its most breathtaking. This, among other things, makes it a perfect spot for a film festival. Attend the fest and then stick around and check out all the incredible sights and sounds southern Utah has to ...
OTB | ONLY THE BEST FILM AWARDS IS A BIMONTHLY ONLINE AWARD THAT RECOGNIZES OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. IT´S YOUR CHANCE TO ORDER AND RECEIVE A BEAUTIFUL AND PRESTIGIOUS TROPHY! WE ARE AN IMDB LISTED INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS. OUR TEAM HAS MEMBERS WHO REPRESENT DIVERSITY AND HAVE DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES. THE MAJORITY IS FROM THE UNITED STATES (GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND PAYMENTS) AND BRAZIL (SUBMISSIONS AND TROPHIES).
We look for creative ideas and projects with a differe...
DESERTSCAPE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WILL RUN JUNE 23- 26, 2021
The nonprofit Film and Media Alliance of Southern Utah has just announced an outstanding addition to an already epic Desertscape International Film Festival Lineup. DIFF 2021 will close out the upcoming festival with a screening of “Recovery” from Sorø Films. This hilarious road trip comedy finds a pair of directionless sisters heading out on a mission to spring their grandmother from a nursing home during C...
DOLLYS BRAE FILMS PRESENTS A SKYLIGHT CINEMA PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH 20TH DIGITAL STUDIO
A THOMAS VERRETTE DOCUMENTARY "ZERO GRAVITY"
FEATURED ASTRONAUTS STEVE SMITH JACK FISCHER AND CADY COLEMAN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY CARLOS MARULANDA
EDITED BY THOMAS VERRETTE
MUSIC BY PENKA KOUNEVA
CO-PRODUCER JACK FISCHER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS DAVID WORTHEN...
THOMAS VERRETTE is an award-winning writer, director, editor and producer. Most notably, he produced the FOX Sports docu-series, PHENOMS for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, and also edited the episode THE GOALKEEPERS, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
He also created the promo campaigns for multiple seasons of the critically-acclaimed series KINGDOM, and has also directed promos for THE DAN PATRICK SHOW, THE RICH EISEN SHOW, and UNDENIABLE WITH JOE BUCK. Other featured work inc...
"Zero Robotics" is a robotics programming competition where the robots are SPHERES satellites inside the International Space Station. The competition starts online, on this website, where teams compete to solve an annual challenge guided by mentors. Participants can create, edit, share, save, simulate and submit code, all from a web browser. After several phases of virtual competition, finalists are selected to compete in a live championship aboard the ISS. An astronaut will ...
Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born 14 December 1960) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on 23 May 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.
Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978;[1] in 1978–1979, she was an exchange stud...
THE JOURNEY TO SPACE IS JUST A CODE AWAY
A diverse group of middle-school students go on the journey of a lifetime when they compete in a nationwide competition sponsored by MIT to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
Zero Gravity is a feature documentary that follows a diverse group of middle-school students from San Jose, CA, who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
Seen through the wondr...
Makayla Engelder, Advik Gonugunta and Carol Gonzalez
Their teacher, Tanner Marcoida
STEVE SMITH
NASA ASTRONUAT
STS-103, STS-82, STS-110, STS-68
JACK FISCHER
NASA ASTRONAUT
Soyuz MS-04, Expedition 51, Expedition 52
CADY COLEMAN
NASA Astronaut
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"CINEQUEST 2021 - Top 12 Films To See" Mercury News by RANDY MYERS
“Zero Gravity”: Campbell Middle School’s innovative Zero Robotics program gets thrust in the spotlight in director Thomas Verrette’s inspirational documentary, filmed primarily in the South Bay. Verrette takes a “Spellbound-”like approach, focusing primarily on three students, Makayla Engelder, Advik Gonugunta and Carol Gonzalez as they participate in ...
