'We experienced the pandemic on Earth and they were experiencing it in orbit'

Film-makers Alina Manolache and Vladimir Potop on how they made the Guardian documentary 2020: A Covid Space Odyssey

Our latest Guardian documentary is an evocative meditation on isolation and human fragility. It pieces together glimpses of the astronaut Jessica Meir's seven-month mission on the International Space Station (Expedition 62, from September 2019-April 2020), from the euphoria of her first spacewalk to the surprise of witnessing the global pandemic unfold on Earth. We spoke with the film-makers Alina Manolache and Vladimir Potop about the film.