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 the Sky" won Best...

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.