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I know, another video.  Sorry, but this does look good and a do like balloon based missions – a simple concept that is deceptively complex.

This is coming on November 4th.  Check out the film website too.  I have high hopes for this!!

Here’s the PBS press release:

New York, NY October 14, 2010 – Welcome to Astrophysics, Indiana Jones style!
Five-time Emmy winner Paul Devlin brings his newest film BLAST! to PBS WNET NY on Thursday, November 4th at 8pm, offering an exciting, enlightening ride around the world and across the Universe.

The Devlin brothers make good and get their adventure science movie all the way to Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report – http://bit.ly/aNsUy6 – one’s an astrophysicist and one’s a filmmaker, and their collaboration, BLAST! brings exciting discovery to mainstream audiences.  BLAST! also broadcast on BBC World News reaching over one-hundred million viewers in August 2010!

BLAST! is a spectacular and suspenseful story of space exploration. Paul Devlin (SlamNation, Power Trip) follows his brother, Mark Devlin, PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists on the journey of a lifetime from Arctic Sweden to the desolate ice of Antarctica. By launching a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon, they hope to reveal a hidden Universe of never-before-seen star-burst galaxies, providing clues to the Evolution of Everything.  From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, their adventure reveals the surprising real life of scientists.

As in director Paul Devlin’s award winning film Power Trip, BLAST! de-emphasizes talking head interviews and dispenses with anonymous narration in favor of capturing the action as it happens. Dynamic storytelling and unique access provide the rare opportunity to reveal the personal and family sacrifices, the obsessions, and even the philosophical questioning of scientists.

“My intention is to expose a much larger audience to the fascinating lives of scientists by breaking with some of the conventional approaches to science material,” comments Director Paul Devlin.  “This story had all the elements I needed.  The extreme events provide the structure for a classically suspenseful narrative, with a built-in twist at the end.”

BLAST! was filmed on location in 7 countries on 5 continents, and has broadcast and screened nationally and internationally at film festivals, theaters, universities, science centers, and planetariums in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy in 2009.  BLAST! has been seen by over a million viewers via broadcasts on BBC, Discovery Canada, SVT Sweden, YLE Finland, VPRO Netherlands, DR Denmark, and NHK Japan. In the summer of 2009, BLAST! enjoyed a theatrical run in New York City and Chicago.