Press Release FIRST ORBIT – London Calling
Independent filmmaker, Chris Riley from London, United Kingdom is seeking support from space enthusiasts across the world by selling film credits on his forthcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release of FIRST ORBIT; a film celebrating Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering spaceflight orbiting the Earth in 1961.
The internet version of First Orbit is already a global YouTube hit, having received almost 3.5 million views, and in response to numerous requests around the world Riley aims to release a DVD and Blu-Ray version in April 2012 by raising the manufacturing costs through popular crowd funding platform http://www.indiegogo.com/firstorbit.
Chris Riley, Director/Producer of First Orbit says; "We’ve created a unique opportunity for people around the world to add their names to this historic film, and I hope people will join us in this way to celebrate what Yuri’s flight still means to everyone”.
A number of film credits have already been sold to people in 15 different countries and those interested in becoming part of this historic film project can go to www.indiegogo.com/firstorbit where they can purchase credits to become an Associate or Executive Producer. Film credits start from $10 and individuals who pre-order a DVD or Blu-Ray copy also get their name in the movie credits. There is even a corporate ‘Title Sponsor’ package available for $15,000.
This will be the first time that the story of Gagarin’s complete spaceflight, in his own words (Russian), becomes accessible on DVD and Blu-Ray in 30 languages.
Notes To Editors
Yuri Gagarin & Vostok 1
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 12 April 1961, became the first human to journey into outer space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. His call sign for the flight was 'Cedar' - meaning Siberian Pine. Ground Control identified themselves as Dawn. His pioneering flight around the world took 108 minutes. Unsure of the effect of space flight on a human being, the spacecraft's controls were run by an automatic system, with Gagarin only permitted to take control in an emergency.
The flight of Vostok 1 began at 06:07 Universal Time (UT), boosted into orbit by a Vostok-K series rocket. Since the Vostok capsule's parachute landing system was deemed too rough for a cosmonaut to risk Gagarin ejected whilst still seven kilometres above the ground. He made his final descent on his own parachute and landed back on Earth 108 minutes after launch and was back on Earth having flown right around the Earth by 07:55 UT.
Christopher Riley
Christopher Riley Director and Producer – First Orbit, worked on data from NASA’s Spacelab 1 project, flown on an early Shuttle mission, for his Ph.D. at Imperial College, University of London before embarking on a career making science documentaries for the BBC. He has worked with the NASA film archive for the past fifteen years on projects ranging from the BBC’s landmark series ‘The Planets’ to the highly acclaimed feature documentary film ‘In the Shadow of the Moon ’.
He created his first video installation from this material for the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing during the summer of 2009. ‘Apollo Raw and Uncut ’ played in gallery spaces in London and Montreal and was the first time the entire 23 hours of Apollo mission flight film archive had been screened in public.
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