SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL
USA

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     Roger Nygard, director of Trekkies (selection for the 21st Mostra), is the producer of this documentary following up on the greatest gathering of UFO's enthusiasts and followers of alien phenomena, in July, 1997, in the city of Roswell, in remembrance of the 50 years since the alleged fall of a spacecraft in the region. There have been thousands of unexplainable occurrences all around the world. The most important, however, was in Roswell (New Mexico, United States), with reports of the appearance of aliens, said to have been covered by the US government.

     The documentary records the fanaticism of believers the world over in their endeavor to follow up closely on reports of alien manifestations, but records mainly the obsession of one particular man in search of an answer to these mysteries.

     Richard Kronfeld lives in Minnesota and, for years, has dreamed of traveling to Roswell to research cases of abduction, or perchance, to contact extraterrestrial intelligence. Kronfeld, who has never been away from his home town and who lives with his mother sees this journey as a form of doing something interesting, at least once in a lifetime. Together with a team, he arrives in Roswell and embarks on his adventure - first in search of a hotel to stay at (all are booked out), and then in his endeavors to find someone who may have witnessed some manifestation or abduction, and who might indicate whether or not they were affected by these events. He and his team talk to hundreds of people, including famous people and other anonymous characters in the world of ufology, affording an ironic portrayal of this American reality.

   
 
Director : Timothy B. Johnson
Cinematographer : David Doyle, Adam Olson
Edition : Roger Nygard
Producer : Roger Nygard
Production : Benevolent Authority Production with Neo Art Logic
World Sales : Neo Motion Pictures 8315 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles,CA 90048 - USA
Tel.: 1 310 393 18 60
Fax: 1 310 451 42 69
E-mail: roswell6@aol.com
  Col., 82min., 1999
 

Timothy B. Johnson has been working for ten years as a video producer in Minneapolis in the United States. He was second unit director for the documentary Trekkies (selection for the 21st Mostra), by Roger Nygard. Six Days in Roswell is his first feature as director.