Lunarcy!

Lunarcy!
Directed by	Simon Ennis
Produced by	Jonas Bell Pasht, Ron Mann, Jonah Bekhor
Starring	Alan Bean, Prof. Jaymie Matthews, Christopher Carson, Peter Kokh, Dennis Hope
Cinematography	Jonathan Bensimon
Edited by	Matt Lyon
Production company	Citizen Jones Production
Distributed by	Global Screen
Release dates	September 8, 2012 (2012-09-08) (TIFF)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Lunarcy! is a 2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Simon Ennis, and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Ron Mann and Jonah Bekhor. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival on September 8, and was distributed worldwide through German Screen. The film draws from a cast of real people who each have a unique connection to the moon, including an astronaut who once walked on the moon and a person who claims personal ownership of the moon.

One of the characters in this documentary is Professor Jaymie Matthews, an astrophysics professor at the University of British Columbia. At age 13 he lied about his age to be selected as the Youth Ambassador from Canada for the 1972 launch of Apollo 17. After the launch, the United States sent 13-year-old Matthews Canada's $5 million Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock, which he kept under his bed for months. Upon recovering the rock from Matthews, Canada lost track of it for decades, incorrectly believing it to have been stolen.

See also

• Alan Bean
• Apollo 18 (film)
• Colonization of the Moon
• Moon tree
• NASA
• Sex on the Moon
• Stolen and missing moon rocks#Theft of NASA rocks
• The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks
• Joseph Gutheinz

External links

• Lunarcy! at IMDb