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.

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