When Sky Was High
by Veaceslav Cebotari
Moldova | 2024 | In production
Synopsis
Sixteen years ago, a group of determined researchers from Europe’s poorest country set out to achieve the impossible: to launch the first Moldovan satellite. How hard could it be to build a satellite in Moldova, a country still uncertain about its orbit between East and West? How not to be defeated by circumstances, criticism and lack of funding, which lead to a permanent fiasco? Will they ever succeed and make Moldova proud, even as society have not an answer for the question: why does Moldova need a satellite?
Biography
Filmmaker and producer based in Chisinau, Moldova. Veaceslav has over 25 years of experience in the film industry as a director of photography and producer. He is the author of a medium-length documentary “Moldova-Honey Land” and a mini-series of documentary short films “Engineers create the future”. Veaceslav is a producer of 2 feature films, 9 shorts and 2 feature documentaries. Veaceslav’s activity in the last two years is related to the development and production of the feature documentary project When Sky Was High. At the same time he is developing his next feature documentaries Creating Memories and The Plowman of Universe.
Awards
Pitch@Moldox – Pitch the Doc Recognition