Mars I (I): Last News

K.J. Yossman In 2012, a Dutch company called Mars One announced grand plans to colonize the red planet. Over 200,000 people applied to participate in the effort and become the first humans in the universe to establish a permanent colony on Mars. Seven years later, Mars One collapsed into bankruptcy among accusations of mismanagement and the dream to send humans to live on Mars died. Now Ridley Scott Associates (RSA Films), the “Alien” director’s commercial production company, is set to make a documentary series about the enterprise after signing an exclusive access agreement with Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp, Variety can confirm.

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Brazilian drama Mars One follows the Martins family, optimistic dreamers who are quietly leading their lives on the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing election of a far-right extremist president. They are a lower middle-class Black family who feels the strain of its new reality as the political dust settles.

Alessandra Ambrosio had all eyes on her at the screening of Mars One during the opening night of the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival in Los Angeles on Tuesday.The catwalk sensation, 41, sizzled in a plunging white Grecian gown that showcased her ample cleavage, and featured a saucy thigh-high slit, as she posed at the event which took place at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.The Victoria's Secret Angel accessorized the sultry look with a gold chain belt, and added extra height to her frame with open toe silver heels.  Mesmerizing! Alessandra Ambrosio had all eyes on her at the screening of Mars One during the opening night of the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival in Los Angeles on TuesdayThe beauty styled her brunette tresses with a middle part and wore them in light curls. The Brazilian star accentuated her lovely features with a hint of mascara and pink lipstick.Alessandra attended the event with her pal Matheus Mazzafera, 42, who went shirtless underneath a white suit, which he paired with shades and black boots.

Out On Film, presented by GILEAD and WABE, has announced the filmmaker awards for the recently concluded 35th edition of the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival.

Out On Film, presented by GILEAD and WABE, has announced the filmmaker awards for the recently concluded 35th edition of the Atlanta-based LGBTQIA+ film festival.

Outfest has announced the award winners of its 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

Wilson Chapman editor“Please Baby Please” and “Mars One” are among the winners of the 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. The organization  announced the honorees during its award ceremony Wednesday.The L.A.-based nonprofit, which promotes LGBTQ filmmakers and projects, ran its 40th edition festival from July 14-24.

EXCLUSIVE: Amelia Eloisa’s We Will Never Belong won the Audience Award for a narrative feature and Joseph Sackett’s Homebody won Best First Feature to highlight prizewinners at this year’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival. The films were honored in a ceremony this weekend that wrapped the Toronto-based event, Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQ+ film festival.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentProjeto Paradiso, operated by the Olga Rabinovich Institute, has renewed its partnership with Buenos Aires’ Ventana Sur, backed by Cannes Festival and Film Market and Argentina’s INCAA film-TV agency.The move is one of several unveiled at Cannes Marché du Film, as go-ahead orgs in Brazil continue to attempt to stem the ravages of three years of President Jair Bolsonaro’s state incentive slow down as well as map out institutional backing for an industry in what is hoped to be a post-Bolsonaro age after October’s general elections. Some of the new initiatives:Projeto Paradiso Broadens Its Alliance With Ventana Sur The Projeto Paradiso-Ventana Sur alliance cuts two ways.

The 32nd annual Inside Out Toronto 2S (two spirit) LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which champions innovative 2SLGBTQ+ filmmakers from across the globe, has revealed its full film lineup that will take place both in-person and virtually from May 26th to June 5th in Toronto, showcasing 128 films from 28 countries, including 38 feature films, 3 episodic series, and 7 world premieres. The announcement was made today by Inside Out’s Interim Co-Heads, Andrew Murphy and Elie Chivi.

Jessica Kiang We have only just settled into the genial rhythms of Gabriel Martins’ “Mars One,” meeting one by one the loving, yearning family of four at its heart when, like capable, brassy matriarch Tércia (Rejane Faria), we get a shock to the system. Sitting at a lunch counter, Tércia is trying to ignore the ranting of a homeless man behind her.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSelected for Sundance’s 2022 World Dramatic Competition and winner of Ventana Sur’s $10,000 Paradiso WIP Award, “Mars One” returns Brazil’s Gabriel Martins to to the sense of 2019’s “In the Heart of the World”– of a society yearning for something better, to which it adds a yawning generational gulf.Tércia, for example, dreams of her daughter becoming a dutiful housewife like herself. So her world is rocked when Eunice moves out of the family home to live with her girlfriend.Father Wellington, a recovering alcoholic, plans his son’s future career as a national soccer star.

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Martins’ movie Mars One has been snapped up by Magnolia Pictures International before the pic’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next week in the World Cinema Dramatic Section.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentGrowing up is never easy. Especially if you’re a parent.

Emiliano De Pablos Gabriel Martins’ family drama “Marte Um” (“Mars One”) has won Ventana Sur’s Paradiso WIP Award, the new prize jointly instituted by Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso and the Cannes-backed Argentine market-festival.Produced by Thiago Macêdo Correia at Filmes de Plástico, “Mars One” will receive a $10,000 prize and a special screening during the upcoming edition of Ventana Sur, running Nov. 29-Dec.

Mars First Logistics is a physics-based open-world sandbox simulation, and is the work of solo developer Ian MacLarty.As described on its Steam page, Mars First Logistics lets players design, build and control their own mechanical creations to deliver cargo to and from colony stations on Mars.As players earn credits and unlock new technology, including servo motors, hydraulic cylinders, and rocket engines, players will be able to upgrade their vehicles to get around the difficult terrain and other harsh elements.The cel-shaded visuals and barren terrain makes Mars First Logistics similar in appearance to indie game Sable.However, the gameplay of journeying across vast the open world alone delivering cargo also makes it similar to Death

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