Director: Hannah Berryman Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 2025
Starring: Eileen Collins
Country: United States
Language: English
Colonel Eileen Collins and director Hannah Berryman will be in attendance for a q&a following the March 28 screening!
About the film:
World Premiere, DOCNYC. Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot and command an American spacecraft. Born on the other side of the tracks in upstate New York, she smashed many glass ceilings in the United States Air Force and at NASA in her career, culminating in four increasingly dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. With an incredible set of archival materials, intimate interviews, and a moving score by Marcelo Zarvos, Hannah Berryman’s nail-biting film shares the emotional journey experienced by Eileen’s family, and explores what level of risk is acceptable in human endeavor.
“A testament to human perseverance, curiosity and courage”
—Andrew Glester, Physics World
About the filmmaker:
Hannah Berryman specializes in documentaries centering women. Before Spacewoman (2025), she made an award-nominated feature documentary Coco Chanel: Unbuttoned (2023), about the famous yet enigmatic designer. She also made a BBC documentary on the women that took part in and protested against the 1970 ‘Miss World’ contest, at the start of the feminist movement. Before that she made the feature documentary Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm (2020) about the eccentric Welsh recording studio where Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Oasis and Coldplay recorded, interviewing them all as well as filming with the farming brothers at the helm. She also made the popular BBC series “Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal,” about the Queen’s wayward younger sister, filming with the people who knew her best.
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