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Summary
The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens-in this case, the heavens above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where she alights on the desert- and mountain-dwelling astronomers, fishermen, miners, and cowboys who live their lives with reverence and awe for the skies.
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
Critics and audiences agree
Critics 76Audiences 75GoodWatch 65
Tomatometer80%
Metascore71
Audience score83%
IMDb6.6
Running time
1 h 18 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −18 min on the typical 96
typical 9678Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 98 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
+88Released
2017
October 6, 2017
9 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- Canada
Chile
Directing · 1
- Alison McAlpine Director, Writer, Producer, Sound
Production · 3
- Carmen Garcia Executive Producer
- Sean Farnel Producer
- Paola Castillo Co-Producer
Camera · 1
- Benjamín Echazarreta Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Andrea Chignoli Editor
Sound · 8
- Philippe Lauzier Original Music Composer
- Miguel Hormazábal Sound Designer, Sound Supervisor
- Rodrigo Salvatierra Sound Recordist
- Claudio Vargas Sound Recordist
- Ivo Moraga Sound Editor
- Mauricio López Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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