"Every festival that I've been to has had an actionable result afterwards," Berman said. "The connections that you make, you can't make them any other way. It's great to see people in person and experience films with them, go have a drink with them afterwards."

Roman Ponca spent an hour on his back in the Patagonian grass, camera rolling on a timelapse, while a cougar watched him from a distance. That shot never made the final cut of "Edge of the Sky." The shot that did is a single continuous timelapse from two 360-degree cameras strapped to a weather balloon, climbing through cloud layer after cloud layer until nothing is left in the frame but the Blue Marble. It's the moment audiences bring up first, almost every time. "Edge of th

Two distributors and a planetarium director break down what actually gets a fulldome film licensed and booked, straight from July's Fulldome Forum panel.

Roman Ponca spent an hour lying on the ground in Patagonia filming a timelapse while a cougar watched from a distance. That shot became part of Edge of the Sky. DFW27 fulldome film festival submissions are open now on FilmFreeway.

IPS President Shannon Schmoll joined our Fulldome Forum to talk through what the International Planetarium Society does and what a global gathering like IPS Fukuoka looks like.

On the morning of Friday, April 24, 2026, between 9:00 and 11:30 AM, on the second day of Dome Fest West, we did something a more cautious festival might have hesitated to do. We took the agenda away. There was no panel lined up at the front of the room. No keynote. No moderator with a clipboard of pre-vetted questions. Instead, there was a stack of blank index cards, a pile of markers, and one instruction. Write down the question or challenge you most want to talk about. If

Roughly 400 people came through Fiske Planetarium over five days in April. Attendees represented 14 countries. Two screening blocks sold out. And the people who were there left with something harder to measure than a badge scan: new friends, new ideas, and a clearer sense of where this industry is going. Dome Fest West 2026, the 5th Annual, wrapped April 26 in Boulder, Colorado. Here is what happened. Wednesday: Before It Even Started The festival technically opened Thursday.

A behind-the-scenes look at the films and creators of Dome Fest West 2026, from the Fulldome Forum where five directors previewed their work, plus the full festival lineup.

Five creators and a physician on why planetarium domes are becoming spaces for wellness and coherence, not just astronomy, and what the emerging science says about why it works.

Manufacturers and operators break down what LED domes actually cost versus traditional projection, what they make possible, and what to check before writing an RFP.

A panel of fulldome veterans on what Sphere and Cosm's arrival means for traditional planetariums, and how the format can stay relevant as commercial LED venues reshape the market.

Dome Fest West is ecstatic to announce the addition of four distinguished industry veterans to our Board of Directors.

Fulldome presents itself as an avant-garde platform that continually challenges artists to rewrite the rules of visual storytelling.

The MSG Sphere is a marvel of advanced technology, and from the moment we stepped inside, we were captivated by its sheer brilliance.

The United States, long renowned for its pioneering spirit in the world of entertainment, is on the precipice of an exhilarating...