About Rocket Girl

Synopsis

Rocket Girl is a documentary by Agnieszka Swiercz that paints the intimate portrait of a young girl, Eleni, as she navigates adolescence while pursuing her passion of building rockets. We witness her journey over the course of three years, as she combats social and cultural pressures telling her to focus on anything but her scientific pursuits. The film weaves together an honest depiction of the awkward and timeless coming of age story, with a peek into the competitive, male dominated and intense community of Rocketry. It’s the story of a girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, against the grain of societies expectations about what she should be or do—a girl who believes that even the sky isn’t the limit.

Director/ Producer

Agnieszka Swiercz is documentary filmmaker and an artist from Poland currently living in New York City. She graduated Art History from the Adam Mickiewicz University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, where she received Master’s in Film, TV, and Photography. She received her Master’s in Film Directing from the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. She has worked as a director on a variety of Feature and TV productions for major European networks including TVN, Polish National Television, and Polsat. Her last documentary At the Edge of Russia won awards at several International festivals, including the Magic Hour Award Planete at the +Doc Film Festival, and both the Jihlava Silver Eye Award and the Golden Pram Award at the Zagreb Film Festival. It was also nominated for the world’s best documentary by Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking in New York.