Irish director Emer Reynolds’ documentary, The Farthest, picked up three awards at the Dublin International Film Festival earlier this year. The Farthest tells the story of NASA’s Voyager spaceships – Voyager I and Voyager II – through some of the women and men who worked on the mission from the launch in 1977. It has survived countless near misses and continues to beam information across huge distances with less computing power than a modern hearing aid. Its nuclear generator will work for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out – but the craft could travel on for millions of years, carrying the ‘Golden Record’ – bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. The Farthest is screening at the NZ International Film Festival.