SAN DIEGO, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The feature-length documentary Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future has been chosen as an Official Selection for the upcoming 2018 Comic-Con International Film Festival.
The documentary, the first of it kind, chronicles the life of forgotten artist and architect Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986). Bonestell contributed to the designs of the Chrysler Building and The Golden Gate Bridge, and worked as a special effects matte painter on films that included Citizen Kane and The Fountainhead. Bonestell has been dubbed "The Father of Space Art" for a series of breathtaking paintings that depicted planetary vistas in our solar system, originally published in Life magazine in 1944.
Bonestell teamed up with rocket engineers Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun on a number of best-selling books on space travel that included The Conquest of Space and The Exploration of Mars. The origins of America's space program can be traced back to their work. Bonestell continued on in Hollywood playing key creative roles in films such as Destination Moon (1950) and The War of The Worlds (1953).
Chesley Bonestell: A Brush With The Future includes rare footage of Bonestell himself and archival perspectives of his work by sci-fi author Ray Bradbury. Also featured are Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey) and Star Wars veterans Ben Burtt, Craig Barron and Richard Edlund. Sunset Magazine Editor-in-Chief Irene Edwards and Astronomer Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz are among the many perspectives given by people who knew Bonestell or were profoundly influenced by him.
Douglas Trumbull will join the film's Producer/Writer/Director Douglass M. Stewart Jr. and Co-Producer Melvin Schuetz (A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology) for a panel discussion following the film's presentation at Comic-Con on July 20 at 2pm at the Marriott Marina Grand Ballroom 3 & 4 in San Diego, CA.
Following the screening, Mr. Trumbull, Mr. Schuetz and Mr. Stewart will be available in Press Room 22 at the San Diego Convention Center from 4:00-5:30pm.
Film Promo link: https://vimeo.com/176831599
Film Website: www.chesleybonestell.com
Comic-Con link: https://www.comic-con.org/cci/film-festival
"Chesley Bonestell: A Brush with the Future" is produced by DMS Production Services, Inc.
SOURCE DMS Production Services, Inc.