Heavenly and earthly questions abound in Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the world’s most powerful radio telescope and the only U.S. town where Wi-Fi and cell phones are banned. In this uniquely radio-quiet environment, scientists use the telescope to search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and advance the field of radio astronomy; within the telescope’s orbit, Green Bank residents experience defining moments of life and loss and explore their connection to the universe, science, and each other.
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Katie Dellamaggiore, Director/Producer
KATIE DELLAMAGGIORE is a documentary director and television producer whose work has appeared on PBS, MTV, A&E, HBO, Discovery and TLC. Katie is best known for her Emmy Award-nominated film Brooklyn Castle, a story about the nation’s best public school chess team and its fight against afterschool budget cuts. Brooklyn Castle won the Audience Award at SXSW, was nationally broadcast on PBS’s acclaimed P.O.V. series, and is being adapted in a narrative film by Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin. Prior to making Brooklyn Castle Katie and her husband Nelson produced and edited Ur Life Online an educational film for A&E that was Emmy Award- nominated for Outstanding Single Camera Editing. Katie and Nelson live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with their two daughters, and are working on their next joint production, Small Town Universe.