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The Blimp-Maker

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Calorie Rating: 8
Released: 2016-02-29
Running Time: 6 Minutes
Budget: 5640
Homepage: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/igor-pasternak-the-blimp-maker-video
Studios: The New Yorker,


For the past forty years, Igor Pasternak has pursued a lighter-than-air vision: to build gigantic airships that haul cargo to otherwise inaccessible parts of the planet. In high school, in Ukraine, Pasternak formed an airship club; at Lviv National University, where he studied civil engineering, he established an airship-design bureau. Eventually, he settled in southern California and started Aeros, which builds blimps for surveillance and other purposes. His prototype cargo airship, the two-hundred-and-sixty-foot-long Dragon Dream, was destroyed in 2013 when its hangar collapsed on it. Unfazed, Pasternak now aims to produce a fleet of “Aeroscraft” cargo airships, the largest of which will be more than nine hundred feet long and able to carry five hundred tons. Pasternak spoke recently with the director and producer Gabe Polsky. Polsky’s documentary, “Red Army,” played at the 2014 Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals, and was released in theatres in 2015.

Director / Directors

Gabe Polsky
Director


Cast

Igor Pasternak
Character: Self
Gabe Polsky
Character: Self (voice)


Production and Crew

Gabe Polsky
Producer
Liam Satre-Meloy
Executive Producer

Anthony Melillo III
Executive Producer
Leo Birenberg
Original Music Composer
Svetlana Cvetko
Director of Photography

Kathleen Quigley
Associate Producer
Robert A. Martinez
Additional Editor

Kyle Jacobsen
Sound Recordist
Sean Marks
Legal Services
Nick Forte III
First Assistant Camera

Thea Traff
Researcher