Originally from Germany, Ulrike Kubatta is a London-based Independent Filmmaker.
She has screened and exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, New York International Film and Video Festival, London International Documentary Film Festival, Kassel International Documentary Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, The Imperial War Museum, South London Gallery, BFI South Bank, the Screen on the Green Cinema and the Arsenal Kino in Berlin.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT:
She Should Have Gone To The Moon continues my investigation into the working lives of women who have transcended traditional gender roles and presents an enquiry into the potential for personal transformation within given female identities.
Since starting the initial research for this film, and especially since I first interviewed Jerri Truhill, I have been fascinated by her amazing story and the challenge to translate it into a visually and formally exciting documentary. I wanted to make a film that both celebrated Jerri’s life but also explored the whole idea of imagined and real journeys. For women, there has often been a gap between the two, caused by male prejudice and stereotyping. Jerri was a great pilot but ultimately, she could only dream of going into space. I wanted to capture both her toughness and her desire to go further, to make it into space.
Ulrike Kubatta is currently in pre-production of Dream Soldier, a feature documentary about an exceptional young man’s desire to honour his hero, a rebellious GI and Normandy veteran. The story of these two men unfolds across a set of journeys, across Britain, across the English Channel and, ultimately, ending in Arlington cemetary.
Dream Soldier is a multi-layered road movie - a film about escapism, camaraderie and rituals and, at its core a young man’s relationship to war and a real life war hero.
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