What was it like to work with Anousheh Ansari?
CF: This is a very special thing, because what happened was, I was already invited to the Baiknour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. I was waiting to cover the flight, the launch of this Japanese entrepreneur. And three weeks before the launch, he was out of the program due to health reasons. And he was replaced by Anousheh Ansari. It was like she came into my film project from heaven she just dropped in. So I decided not to contact her, since I already had all the permits to shoot and to cover the preparations for her launch. I felt that she would be surrounded by a lot of media people, that she would be under a lot of stress, and I wanted to wait until she was back on earth. I learned that she was actually covering her flight and her stay at the ISS and I even found some clips on YouTube and it seemed perfect that she was kind of covering the everyday living at the ISS. So I contacted her and explained the project to her, and she was kind enough to give me access to her footage, which was in
