ASTROSAMANTHA, THE SPACE RECORD WOMAN

Narrated by Giancarlo Giannini, the docu-film 'Astrosamantha' is a unique and intimate portrait of the Space record woman, Samantha Cristoforetti, and her spaceflight to the International Space Station.
Samantha is the female astronaut who has spent the most time in Space, she is the astronaut from the ESA who has spent the highest number of consecutive days in Space, she has traveled 130 million km, the longest ever voyage by any woman, she is the first person to have brewed and drunk an espresso in space, she is the first Italian woman in Space. A real story about space, action, curiosity, records and women...

  • Gianluca Cerasola
    Director
  • Gianluca Cerasola
    Writer
  • Morol srl
    Producer
  • SAMANTHA CRISTOFORETTI- ASTRONAUT
    Key Cast
  • GIANCARLO GIANNINI
    Key Cast
  • Terry Virts ▼ HIMSELF NASA ASTRONAUT (SUPPORTING ACTOR)
    Key Cast
  • Anton Škaplerov ▼ RUSSIAN ASTRONAUT HIMSELF (SUPPORTING ACTOR)
    Key Cast
  • Runtime:
    55 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 30, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Shooting Format:
    HD 2 K
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Rome Film Festival
    Rome
    October 14, 2015
    Festival Opening
  • Thine Line Film Festival
    Denton Texas Usa
    April 21, 2017
    Best Documentary award
Distribution Information
  • Morol srl
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Gianluca Cerasola

Chief Executive Officer of Morol, Gianluca Cerasola collaborates with Media and Tv around the world, producing documentaries, Tv show, Cinema film and Tv Fiction series for Italian and international Market. In Italy collaborates with Rai Cinema, Rai Italian television, Endemol-Shine, Mediaset tv and Sky. He is a Cinema-television Producer, director, writer and journalist. With a degree in Science Communications he pursued his studies with a Masters degree in writing and television productions in Los Angeles (USA) cable drama series shows FX, TNT, HBO. In Rome ”La Sapienza University” a Masters in Criminology to write and produce film and fictions about criminolgy. He is also a member of the Italian Professional Journalists Society. He was the youngest European director to interview a Head of Government for a documentary production. Since 1995 he has been collaborating with Endemol-Italy and Endemol-Shine World organizing television programs (Big Brother, Survivors, The Money Drop, The Brain, etc..). He writes for popular newspapers and is Managing Director of www.WorldPass.it newspaper. Gianluca Cerasola is a world travel expert, has directed and Produced documentaries and formats all over the world: United States of America (New York, Boston, Cape Cod), Australia, Albania, Bermuda Islands, South Africa, Kruger Park, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Yemen, Sokotra Island, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Sweden (Holand, Gotland), Buenos Aires, Chile, Virgin Islands, New Zealand, Hong Kong, British Virgin Islands, Japan, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Korea, Mauritius,etc.
Gianluca Cerasola is the author of two books: “Sopra e Sotto il Tavolo” with the preface of the Italian premiership G. Andreotti and “Saremo Famosi, superare i casting dei reality e delle fiction”, is a work about how to afford and too win over a casting and it is currently used as text book at Roma 3 University in Italy.
Gianluca was the first director in the world to do a film with an astrounat, and the first time world exclusive footage for a film was shot on the International Space Station while in space. "Astrosamantha" is the first cinema docu- film directed by Gianluca

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I Think the docu-film "Astrosamantha" is a unique and intimate portrait of the Space record woman, Samantha Cristoforetti, to travel to space. it's a real story.
Samantha is the female astronaut who has spent the most time in space, She is the astronaut from the ESA who has spent the highest number of consecutive days in sapce, She has traveled 130 million km, the longest ever voyage by any woman, She is the first person to have made and drunk an espresso in space, she is the first Italian woman in space and we were togheter, around the world and in space, for almoust 3 years. Now she is a great friend!
With Samantha, we go on the professional and personal path that transforms her into a “human being fit for space” and then into space. For two years, the film follows her to normally unseen locations as she prepares for her space mission and then for two hundred days on the International Space Station.
We also took advantage of this long process to get to know her personally, her hobbies, her world, her traits and her day-to-day life during training and into the space. it is a gret opportunity to see and to know the Space...