Project: Darksky
Season One: North America · Eight Episodes · Eight Cultures
A full night of celestial movement — compressed to 24 minutes — told in the voices of the people who have read it longest.
Project: Darksky travels to the most remote, light-pollution-free locations in North America over two years of production. At each location, a full dome-mapped 8K timelapse captures an entire night of uninterrupted celestial movement. Indigenous storytellers from eight distinct cultures narrate as the stars they have named move overhead in real time. The result is a series of 24-minute fulldome experiences — formatted for planetarium programming, distributed globally, and available as a native VR release.
- ✦First position, largest logo in title credits of all 8 episodes — every dome, every screening, in perpetuity
- ✦Dedicated blog feature + gear review published to @jaldridgeadventures
- ✦Collaborative social posts from all 8 episode locations — co-published across both channels simultaneously
- ✦60–90 sec branded clip shot on location, per episode — 8 clips total, yours in perpetuity
- ✦4 premiere invitations to each episode premiere — 32 seats across the series
- ◆Logo in title credits of your episode — every dome screening of that episode, in perpetuity
- ◆Gear review tied to your episode location, published to @jaldridgeadventures
- ◆Collaborative social posts from your episode location — co-published across both channels
- ◆60–90 sec branded clip shot on location, yours in perpetuity
- ◆2 premiere invitations to your episode's premiere
- ·Logo in end credits of your episode — every dome screening of that episode, in perpetuity
- ·Collaborative social posts from your episode location — co-published across both channels
- ·30–60 sec branded clip shot on location, yours in perpetuity
- ·1 premiere invitation to your episode's premiere
Completed episodes are distributed through the three primary fulldome and planetarium content networks, reaching university and science center domes globally. Each episode also releases as a native VR experience — the 8K dual fisheye format maps directly to headset projection.
Social deliverables are co-authored and published simultaneously to the sponsor's channels and ours — field posts from the shoot as the stories go live.
Every episode is built in partnership with the community whose sky it documents. Storytellers are involved from the outset — not as consultants after the fact. They shape what is told, how it is told, and what remains untold. This is not a series about Indigenous cultures. It is a series made with them.