Training astronauts to shoot film? All in a day's work for the Canadian documentary filmmaker, writes Cristiana Moisescu.
What drives you towards space exploration?
The space unit [the team behind A Beautiful Planet] grew out of the early days of IMAX, when it became apparent that the huge beautiful picture and the immersive quality of the experience was for taking people where they couldn’t normally go – to the bottom of the oceans, or the top of mountains. Space was a natural extension of that.
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