Private Project

Tour de Moon

A hyperenergetic and unapologetic ride inside the festival of brexit. Join Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and a multiverse of talents as they take their nationwide festival Tour de Moon- which advocates for plurality, youth countercultures and nightlife- around the UK while redistributing public funds… Discover an antidote to nationalism, division and ultimately Brexit.

  • Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
    Director
    Directed by Award Winning Director of ‘I AM (NOT) A MONSTER', ‘DISASTER PLAYGROUND’, ‘INTERNATIONAL SPACE ORCHESTRA’
  • Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
    Producer
    ‘I AM (NOT) A MONSTER', ‘DISASTER PLAYGROUND’, ‘INTERNATIONAL SPACE ORCHESTRA’
  • Christopher Hird
    Producer
    "I Am Belmaya (2021)", "Bank Job (2021)", "One Man and His Shoes (2020)" “The Dirty War on the National Health Service (2019)“ “I Am (Not) a Monster (2019)” "Shooting with Mursi (2009)", "Like It Is (1998)”… and more: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107661/
  • Marina Terranova
    Associate Producer
    Gesti, Erica Boudoir
  • Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
    Key Cast
    "Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian"
    ‘I AM (NOT) A MONSTER', ‘DISASTER PLAYGROUND’, ‘INTERNATIONAL SPACE ORCHESTRA’
  • Marina Terranova
    Key Cast
    "Marina Terranova"
    Gesti
  • John Akinde
    Key Cast
    "John Akinde"
  • Anjali Prashar Savoie
    Key Cast
    "Anjali Prashar Savoie"
  • Natasha Patterson
    Key Cast
    "Natasha Patterson"
  • Nahum
    Key Cast
    "Nahum"
  • Samar Mirrored Fatality
    Key Cast
    "Samar"
  • Mango Mirrored Fatality
    Key Cast
    "Mango"
  • Dionne Scougul
    Key Cast
    "Dionne Scougul"
  • Hilary OShaughnessy
    Key Cast
    "Hilary OShaughnessy"
  • Jacob Ashong
    Key Cast
    "Jacob Ashong "
  • Jane Ashong
    Key Cast
    "Jane Ashong "
  • David Potter
    Editors
  • Gene Lambrick
    Editors
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Expository mode, Participatory mode
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 30, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    50,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Ghana, United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Dartmouth Films
    Distributor
    Country: United Kingdom
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian PhD is an award-winning designer of experiences with over a decade of working to manufacture impossible productions and complex events and projects.
She is an artist, radio host, keynote speaker, amateur boxer and the director and producer of three feature-length movies (The International Space Orchestra, 2013; Disaster Playground, 2015; I am (not) a monster, 2019) which have screened in major film festivals (IFFR, LFF, CPH DOX, SXSW etc….) ; who creates multidimensional experiential projects at the intersection of film, science, tech, theater, politics,music and design.

Nelly is the founder of both NASA’s International Space Orchestra , the tuition-free charity University of the Underground and design agency Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios.

Her large scale projects have included collaborations with political activists like Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot, or Arjun Appadurai and artists like Massive Attack and Kid Cudi, The Avalanches to name a few.

She is known for challenging institutions from within through events, and she has done so at the United Nations, NASA or the International Astronautical Federation where she is Vice Chair of the Technical Committee on the Cultural Utilization of Space (ITACCUS), a member of the IAF Space Education and Outreach Committee (SEOC), and a member of the IAA (International Academy of Astronautics) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) permanent committee.

Tour de Moon is her brainchild, which she is thrilled and honored to develop together with her brilliant team, youths and nighttime workers. Tour de Moon is composed of immersive experiences and live events developed in collaboration with our “universal satellite”: the Moon, seen as a character, a landscape and a prompt for radical imagination.

Nelly is passionately committed to supporting the creation of organized communities in building new beginnings. To this end, she actively works to build platforms for others to experience plurality, decolonial practices, social and racial justice, solidarity and equity, so that History does not repeat itself on earth and beyond.

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Director Statement

"It is my strongest belief that nation-states do not form identities but that collectivities, organized communities, seasons and environments do. With Tour de Moon, I wish to demonstrate that in the face of divisive ideologies, values such as plurality and equity draft manifestos against the repeat of history on Earth, on the Moon and beyond."