Felix & Paul’s co-founders and creative directors, Félix Lajeunesse (right) and Paul Raphaël, directed the studio’s ambitious Space Explorers series. JOHN KENNEY / MONTREAL GAZETTE
The latest episode from Felix & Paul looks at how space travel is evolving through international space programs and private partnerships.
Felix & Paul Studios, the happening Montreal-based virtual-reality producer, premières the second episode of Space Explorers on Thursday.
“Space Explorers is probably (Felix & Paul’s) most ambitious endeavour in terms of the complexity of the production and the scope of the production,” said Félix Lajeunesse, the studio’s co-founder and creative director as well as one of the directors of Space Explorers.
The show is also directed by the studio’s other founder and co-creative director, Paul Raphaël.
Created in conjunction with NASA, the Russian space agency and leading private space transportation companies, this show about space travel is narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Brie Larson. The first episode of the big-budget series was launched at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Each episode is about 20 minutes long. The second episode will be launched in the online Oculus store on July 12.
“We shot it over two years,” said Lajeunesse, who compared the complexity of producing Space Explorers with the studio’s previous projects involving former U.S. president Barack Obama. “There are lots of trade secrets, there are lots of levels of security, and so you need to be very methodical, very organized, very patient and clear on what you want to accomplish when you work with NASA.
“We filmed in different places in the United States with NASA, but we also traveled to Russia to explore the reality of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, and to work with cosmonauts. As a studio, it was a very big, ambitious production.”
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Source: Montreal Gazette