Dan Tell has been asked from both sides of the desk: which shows should I license, and how do I get mine licensed? His answer to both is the same, and it starts with seeing the shows in a full dome with a real audience.

"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 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.