Still from Rocket Girl: a woman in glasses, seen in profile, works at a workbench with a gloved hand on a cardboard tube.

Rocket Girl

70

Minutes

Directed by:

Agnes Swiercz

Synopsis

For her empowering documentary, Polish-American filmmaker Agnes Swiercz zooms in on Eleni – a young girl who, like countless women including the director herself , was told she would never be 'as good' as her male counterparts. Eleni pursues her passion of building rockets under the affectionate gaze of Swiercz’s camera, this one-of-a-kind portrait of girlhood within the male-dominated domain of Aerospace engineering. We can learn a lot from Eleni's perseverance and commitment to being great. Sometimes even the sky itself isn’t the limit.

We are delighted to welcome Director Agnes Swiercz for a Q&A following the screening on Saturday 24 October

Still from Rocket Girl: a woman in glasses, seen in profile, works at a workbench with a gloved hand on a cardboard tube.
Black-and-white close-up of a woman with dark hair and a straight fringe looking directly at the camera.
Still from Rocket Girl: a view along a long metal launch tube from above, with grey smoke billowing beside it.
Still from Rocket Girl: two people stand beside a long launch rail angled into the sky in a desert.
Still from Rocket Girl: a colourful nebula of orange, blue and white gas glows against a starry black sky.
Still from Rocket Girl: a tall dark rocket rises from a puff of smoke on a flat desert, with mountains behind.
Still from Rocket Girl: a small, distant figure stands on a wide desert plain scattered with shrubs, with mountains behind.
Still from Rocket Girl: an illustration of a person with bright red hair and red-framed glasses looking up at a purple sky with a small cloud.