Pale Blue Dot - Passion Project Turned Into a Star

While making our new year resolutions and turning our sight to the exciting 2023 ahead of us, we are also looking back at all the fun creative projects we got to work on in 2022. One of them holds a special place in our hearts, our passion project-turned-into-a-star short film.

Pale Blue Dot is a short film we produced that qualified among the 10 finalists at the CineSpace 2022 contest, organized by the Houston Cinema Arts Society and NASA, judged by the 3 times Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater. It tells the story of a woman from Earth and a man born in space, who observe our planet from the window of their spaceship.

The film relies heavily on the beautiful performances of actors Michelle Huirama and David Aguirre Firth to evoke a sense of longing and nostalgia and serve as a love letter to planet Earth. It was written, directed, and edited by our own Mitko Stafidov, shot by Nicola Atanasov. Two months after the submission, we were invited to Houston to attend the CineSpace winners announcement as one of the 10 qualified finalists.