FOTO Celebrates Space Art Pioneer with “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future” November 25 at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California
The screening will take place in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon theater where a panel discussion will follow with the award-winning filmmaker, the film's co-producer and Griffith Observatory's renowned space artist Don Dixon. Griffith Observatory will also share its own rare collection of original Bonestell paintings. - November 20, 2019
Frightfully Fantastic, Best Documentary “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future” Encores at the North Park Theatre During Halloween Week
In producing, writing and directing “Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future,“ award-winning filmmaker Douglass M. Stewart Jr. takes audiences on an extraordinary voyage into the life and career of “the Father of Space Art” who is credited with helping to influence... - October 10, 2019
Floating a Great Idea, Newport Beach Film Festival Encores an Audience Award-Winner for South Pacific Sea Voyage
This coming December, the first-ever film about “The Father of Space Art,” Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future, will set sail with the Newport Beach Film Festival at Sea. In partnership with Costco Travel and Celebrity Cruises, festival attendees will see films and rub elbows... - September 25, 2019
Comic-Con Best Documentary Will Star at Orange Coast College Planetarium in October
Free for Orange Coast College Students and Open to the Public, the first-ever film about “The Father of Space Art” Returns to Orange County with Two Best Documentary Awards and Ready to Shine at OCC’s New Planetarium on October 5. - September 12, 2019
Inside Art and Outer Space Collide in Buffalo When a Best Documentary About “The Father of Space Art” Stars at the North Park Theatre September 14 and 15
In producing, writing and directing "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future," award-winning filmmaker and eight-time Emmy Award nominee Douglass M. Stewart Jr. takes viewers on an extraordinary voyage into the life and career of “the Father of Space Art.” Bonestell is... - September 06, 2019
Award-Winning Filmmaker Encores His Best Documentary About Space Artist with Star-Studded Q&A in Beverly Hills on August 12th
Stars from two of space artist Chesley Bonestell's most famous matte painting films - Barbara Rush from "When Worlds Collide" (1951) and Ann Robinson from "The War of the Worlds!"(1953) - will shine brightly at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre August 12th. - August 02, 2019
Comic-Con Best Documentary Winner About Artist Who Inspired US Space Program Heads for SoCal Launch
On the eve of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo11 lunar landing, space artist and Hollywood matte painter Chesley Bonestell is being remembered as the person who helped get us to the moon, not with technology, but with a paintbrush. - July 05, 2019
Legends of Sci-Fi, Art and Film Converge in Santa Fe, NM for an Award-Winning "Brush with the Future"
It was French writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) who famously said that, "Art is science made clear." The proof of this statement will take place when the award-winning film "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" screens at George R.R. Martin's Jean... - April 07, 2019
Forgotten Space Artist and Filoli Architect Returns to Woodside, CA in Award-Winning Documentary
For decades, Chesley Bonestell's awe-inspiring paintings of planets and galaxies have transported people through and beyond our solar system. Born in San Francisco and a resident of Berkeley and Carmel, California, Mr. Bonestell has been called "The Father of Space Art" and was even a... - March 13, 2019
Award-Winning Film about Forgotten “Father of Space Art” is an Official Selection at Sonoma International Film Festival
With Best Documentary Awards on two coasts, "Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" continues to celebrate as an "Official Selection" of the 22nd Annual Sonoma International Film Festival. - March 10, 2019
A San Francisco Encore as Sold-Out Chesley Bonestell Film Returns to The Roxie
Few things can raise such ambivalence in a film producer or a theater owner as “sold out” seating. On one hand, there’s the obvious excitement of a full house but, on the flip side, it means you’ve likely had to turn away fans looking forward to enjoying a comfortable... - March 10, 2019