ConnectIONS Live!
Join IONS Board Chair Claudia Welss in a celebration of our founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s 90th birthday. In conversation with the filmmakers of the upcoming documentary, The Space Less Traveled, we’ll get a rare look into his incredible life story through the eyes of Antares Davis (Edgar’s goddaughter) and Cameron Jutte, and even hear from the man himself via clips from the feature-length film.
From personal stories about Edgar’s childhood in New Mexico to his revelation in space that led to the formation of IONS, we’ll explore what drove the Apollo 14 lunar module pilot, moonwalker, and American Hero of the space movement to inspire a movement in consciousness.
Friday, September 18, 2020
11:00 am – 12:15pm (Pacific)
Presenters
Antares Davis, Director, Producer
Antares Davis studied at Northwestern University, the Piven Theatre and Second City in Chicago. She also studied documentary filmmaking at Maine Media. While acting, she had the good fortune of working with some of the industry’s top directors including Sidney Pollock and Oliver Stone. She moved behind the camera in 2007 into commercial film and music video production, helping create spots for high profile companies and musicians. She is Edgar Mitchel’s goddaughter and is honored to bring his life story to the big screen.
Cameron Jutte, Director, Producer
Cameron Jutte is a filmmaker who hails from the Pacific Northwest. He received his degree in film from Portland State University and has a journalism background from NewsChannel 21 in Bend Oregon. His resume includes the Director of Photography and Camera Operator for music videos of well-known bands and musicians. Jutte’s films, ‘Eclipse City’ and ‘Feathers’, won awards at numerous film festivals. He joined Edgar Mitchell and Antares Davis in 2013 and began filming The Space Less Traveled to bring Ed’s incredible life story to the masses.
Claudia Welss, Executive Producer
Claudia is IONS Board Chair and a citizen scientist. Her decades of supporting IONS started when President Willis Harman invited her to join a five-year “Peace-building Through Business” inquiry at the Fetzer Institute while she was director of the University of California, Berkeley Haas School‘s center for corporate programs. She joined The Space Less Traveled team as Executive Producer last year. She’s also an executive producer of IONS upcoming Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect Virtual Reality Experience, and is a board member of HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative and Space for Humanity.
