VOLUNTEERS
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS
Invaluable Team Players
"In creating a film that uses 7,500,000 photographs, every photograph is not equal. To create the stunning animated footage of flying through space, the most important ingredient is lots of very high-resolution images processed from space image sources.
Until early 2007, I was really stuck on how to get enough high-resolution images to create footage even at HiDef resolutions, much less resolutions for the giant screen. Then I found the Unmanned Spaceflight Forum.
Unmanned Spaceflight was the first big step that made a film possible that could play in IMAX® and Giant Screen theaters. Here, I found dedicated and talented amateurs that process space images. It opened the door to processing space images but more importantly, to have these passionate volunteers who donated their hard work and beautiful photographs to the film.
While NASA, JPL, CiClops, ESA, Space Telescope Institute and other agencies work to generate high- resolution images, huge amounts of data is never processed into usable images. Without the efforts of Unmanned Spaceflight – now sponsored by The Planetary Society – and the many other image processors around the world that have contributed to the film, there would be no In Saturn’s Rings."
Stephen van Vuuren - Filmmaker
ADVISORS
Lead Science Advisor - Professor Steve Danford, Ph.D. - UNC-G Astronomy
Science Advisors
Andrew Chaikin
Tom Drewes
Tom English - GTCC Astronomy
Joseph Holmes - Guilford College Astronomy
Professor Stefan Jeglinski
Aimilia Smyrli
IMAGE PROCESSORS
Image Contributor
Exploitcorporations
Library of Congress
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WikiMedia Commons
Elisabetta Bonora
Ricardo Borba
Noel Carboni
Davide De Martin
Seán Doran
Miloslav Druckmüller
Marcia Fiamengo
Robert Gendler
Michael Hunnekuhl
Richard Johnson
Björn Jónsson
Norman Kuring
Emily Lakdawalla - The Planetary Society
Colin Legg
Alan Light
Jason Major
Mattias Malmer
Axel Mellinger
Rolf Wahl Olsen
Deidre Sorensen - Deidre Sorensen Photography
Ted Stryk
Michael Theusner
Gordan Ugarkovic
Image Downloader
Maureen Ahearn
Mark Averett
David Blood
David Bood
Iris Carter
Jane Gwynn Ward
Meggie Hanchette
Zain Husain
Larry Kirwan
Tessa Kok
Paul Merritt
Elizabeth Mitchell
Jenny Montasir
Julianne Morgan
Szabolcs Nagy
Brice Schoolfield
Pradeep Shama
Pradeep Sharma
Thomas Simonis
Sam Smith
Aimilia Smyrli
Raul Tellez Rios
Burke Thompson
Kelli Wondra
Matthew Zarzeka
Image Processor
Jenny Batista
Ioannis Batsios
Jacek Bobowik
Robert Broussard
Professor Steve Danford, Ph.D. - UNC-G Astronomy
Seán Doran
Richard Green
Jason Harwell
Claire Hodge
Björn Jónsson
Adam Kiil
Val Klavans
Colin Legg
Michael J. Malaska
Mattias Malmer
Timothy Matson
Kevin McAbee
Ian Regan
Judy Schmidt
Tim Shamblin
Bryan Simpson
Deidre Sorensen - Deidre Sorensen Photography
Alexis Tranchandon
Amy Vineyard
Image Processor and Programmer
Joshua P. Elliott
Professor Stefan Jeglinski
Zack Lovatt
Shea Pendleton
Anish Ramaswamy
Phil Spitler
SOCIAL MEDIA
Lead Social Media – Val Klavans
Social Media
Arend Anton
Jamie Lawson
Aimilia Smyrli
Kyle Ladd – Intern
RENDERING
Robbie Coblentz
Allen Ellis
Jonathan Faw
Teddy Gage
Richard Green
Martin Kadlec
Robert Kjettrup
Alexis Lasseigne
Tom Ljungberg
Mike Nelson
Lewis Osorio
Tavis Packet
Tavis Paquette
Ron Pierce
Konstantinos Skarlatos - Pelagus Creative Web
Scott Suehle
Luiz Eric Tosetti
TRANSLATOR
Elena Barakhova
Hemerson Brandão
Rodrigo Brito
Claudia Caporusso
Nicolò Conte
Tessa Kok
Isaac Magajor
Paolo Ernesto Marelli
Isaac MJ
Peg Parham
Tobias Reich
Aimilia Smyrli
Joan Valls Moreno
BEHIND THE SCENES
Actor - Jeremy Kuhn, Timothy Matson
Art Director - Marie Stone-van Vuuren
Audio - Jonathan Ward, Ben West
Director - Philip Powell
Director of Photography - Justin Kuhn
Editor - Justin Kuhn
Electric - Ben West
Gaffer - Jason Pierce
Grip - Jason Pierce, Ben West, Simms Wright
Producer - Philip Powell, Leading Edge Video
Producer - Jonathan Ward
Still Photography - Alex Martin, Jonathan Ward
Video - Alex Martin
Video Village - Simms Wright
Writer - Philip Powell
