The Sydney Film Festival has officially launched and one of the high flying documentaries you wont want to miss is APOLLO 11, from director Todd Douglas Miller.

It’s getting a wider release to mark the golden anniversary of the astronomically significant space mission that saw man first set foot on the moon, but Festival patrons are privileged to get a jump on this landmark film.

Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, APOLLO 11 takes
us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission —the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into household names.

Immersed in the perspectives of the astronauts, the team in Mission Control, and the millions of spectators on the ground, the audience vividly and vicariously experience those momentous days and hours in 1969 when humankind took a giant leap into the future.

An intricate time capsule within a space capsule, the awe inspiring significance of this technological feat comes into sharp and breath taking relief in this thrilling documentary.

In a tight ninety three minutes, some of it in “real” time, APOLLO 11 enthrals with the sprawling audacity of the mission, the hopes, fears, hiccups and triumphs of a real star trek, taking mankind to a new frontier, boldly going where no one had gone before.

The skill of it’s assembly, rhythm and pacing brings a spectacular immediacy to this unprecedented endeavour, recreating the event etched into our collective nostalgia and revealing aspects that are new.

APOLLO 11 has the right stuff to astound, amaze, surprise and awe, a top drawer documentary that literally lifts the spirits, clearing the gantry of restraining geo-politics and celebrating human ingenuity and imagination.

APOLLO 11 screens Mon June 10 9.30am State Theatre
Sat June 15 2pm Casula
Sun June 16 1.45pm Hoyts Entertainment Quarter

The full Sydney Film Festival 2019 program can be found online at sff.org.au.

Sydney Film Festival runs 5 – 16 June 2019. Tickets for Sydney Film Festival 2019 are on sale now. Please call 1300 733 733 or visit sff.org.au for more information.