Brian Bit­tner from Tow­son Uni­ver­sity sent us some first hand infor­ma­tion about the movie Rocket Sci­ence.

I haven’t seen any actual footage, but I was involved with the pro­duc­tion of Rocket Sci­ence. It was filmed in Bal­ti­more dur­ing our high school camp two sum­mers ago. Sev­eral of the stars and an assis­tant direc­tor came to cam­pus to watch debates dur­ing our tour­na­ment. They also watched an NDT final from the early 90’s.

The direc­tor debated in high school and was excited about depict­ing debate “as we know it.” I met with him and the cast at their office — he talked about “spread­ing” and asked me to depict it for the cast, as best as I could. I told them about stock issues, flow­ing, read­ing evi­dence, and how to look like you are actu­ally debat­ing. They bor­rowed some of our tubs, expando files, and evi­dence for use as props.

I was an extra in one scene — in the front row of the audi­ence dur­ing an awards cer­e­mony. Unfor­tu­nately, that was the only film­ing I saw. I don’t know what the debate scenes in the movie will look like, but the direc­tors and cast were famil­iar­ized with pol­icy debate and knew a bit about it.

This sounds promis­ing. It has to be bet­ter than Lis­ten To Me.