The Blimp-Maker
Igor Pasternak, the C.E.O. and chief engineer of Worldwide Aeros, is fulfilling his lifelong dream of creating aircraft that are lighter than air.
2016 | 6m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Gabe Polsky |
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| Writer: | Gabe Polsky |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 29, 2016 |
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| Director: | Gabe Polsky |
| Writer: | Gabe Polsky |
| Genres: | Documentary |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $5,640 |
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Updated: Jun 26, 2024 Entered: Jun 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Igor Pasternak | Self |
| Gabe Polsky | Self (voice) |
| Name | Job |
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| Gabe Polsky | Writer, Director |
| Leo Birenberg | Original Music Composer |
| Svetlana Cvetko | Director of Photography |
| Stephen Garrett | Editor |
| Robert A. Martinez | Additional Editor |
| Kyle Jacobsen | Sound Recordist |
| Sean Marks | Thanks, Legal Services |
| Nick Forte III | First Assistant Camera |
| Thea Traff | Researcher |
| John Kiehle | Thanks |
| Werner Herzog | Thanks |
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| Gabe Polsky | Producer |
| Liam Satre-Meloy | Executive Producer |
| Anthony Melillo III | Executive Producer |
| Kathleen Quigley | Associate Producer |
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