Inside the Boulder Theater enjoy music by Dzirae Gold who combines her love for jazz, blues, funk and disco to create a sound as “smooth as liquid gold,” followed by the BIFF Awards Ceremony, where we’ll honor the best of the fest with the handcrafted Vielehr award sculptures. Then enjoy a screening of the great new film ‘Spacewoman,’ about Eileen Collins, the first female spacecraft commander in history. A Q&A with Eileen Collins and filmmakers Hannah Berryman and Keith Haviland follows the screening.
Closing Night Party and Spacewoman
Inside the Boulder Theater enjoy music by Dzirae Gold who combines her love for jazz, blues, funk and disco to create a sound as “smooth as liquid gold,” followed by the BIFF Awards Ceremony, where we’ll honor the best of the fest with the handcrafted Vielehr award sculptures. Then enjoy a screening of the great new film ‘Spacewoman,’ about Eileen Collins, the first female spacecraft commander in history. A Q&A with Eileen Collins and filmmakers Hannah Berryman and Keith Haviland follows the screening.
SPACEWOMAN
UK, Feature Documentary, 100 minutes, 2024
Based on the book ‘Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars’ written by Eileen Collins and Jonathan H. Ward.
Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first female spacecraft commander in history. Born on the other side of the tracks in upstate New York, she smashed many glass ceilings in the US Air Force and at NASA in her career, culminating in her commanding four increasingly dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. With an incredible set of archival materials, intimate interviews, and a moving score by Marcelo Zarvos, Hannah Berryman’s nail-biting film shares the emotional journey experienced by Eileen and her family, and asks the philosophical question: “What level of risk is acceptable in one of the most important and dangerous adventures in human endeavors?”
Directed by Hannah Berryman
Produced by Keith Haviland, Natasha Dack Ojumu
Colorado Premiere
Eileen Collins, Hannah Berryman and Keith Haviland in person
SPACEWOMAN
UK, Feature Documentary, 100 minutes, 2024
Based on the book ‘Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars’ written by Eileen Collins and Jonathan H. Ward.
Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first female spacecraft commander in history. Born on the other side of the tracks in upstate New York, she smashed many glass ceilings in the US Air Force and at NASA in her career, culminating in her commanding four increasingly dramatic and dangerous space shuttle missions. With an incredible set of archival materials, intimate interviews, and a moving score by Marcelo Zarvos, Hannah Berryman’s nail-biting film shares the emotional journey experienced by Eileen and her family, and asks the philosophical question: “What level of risk is acceptable in one of the most important and dangerous adventures in human endeavors?”
Directed by Hannah Berryman
Produced by Keith Haviland, Natasha Dack Ojumu
Colorado Premiere
Eileen Collins, Hannah Berryman and Keith Haviland in person
Sunday March 16, 2025
Tickets - $28
– 6:00 pm: Passholder Doors open at Boulder Theater
– 6:15pm: Public Doors open at Boulder Theater
– 6:00pm – 7:00pm: Live Music from Dzirae Gold
– 7:00pm: Awards Ceremony
– 7:15 pm: Film Screening Spacewoman
– 9:15pm: A Q&A Discussion
Purchase Closing Night Tickets
Sunday March 16, 2025
Tickets - $28
– 6:00 pm: Passholder Doors open at Boulder Theater
– 6:15pm: Public Doors open at Boulder Theater
– 6:00pm – 7:00pm: Live Music from Dzirae Gold
– 7:00pm: Awards Ceremony
– 7:15 pm: Film Screening Spacewoman
– 9:15pm: A Q&A Discussion
Purchase Closing Night Tickets
