Sedona News – Filmmaker Randall Nickerson shares his decades-long passion to capture a remarkable close encounter experienced by over sixty schoolchildren in Zimbabwe, outside their schoolyard. Decades later, the incident remains vivid in the students’ memories, who are still on a quest for answers and the courage to share their truths. The documentary follows a young woman returning to her school in rural Zimbabwe, revisiting the place that shattered her reality at the tender age of nine.
The film also highlights the involvement of a respected BBC war reporter who reluctantly covered the 1994 event, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack who validated the witnesses, and witness Emily Trim, whose journey back to Zimbabwe forms a crucial part of the storyline.
Christopher Seward served as the writer and lead editor for Ariel Phenomenon. The film features music by Nathaniel Walcott of Bright Eyes and Henrik Astrom, along with tracks from Blue Dot Music, available on all platforms worldwide through Sony Music’s The Orchard. Ariel Phenomenon boasts a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes for over a year, along with a stellar rating of 4.6/5 stars on Amazon since its release.
Join us for this thought-provoking screening of a film that aims to spark conversations and illuminate a topic that has long been shrouded in stigma and secrecy. Nickerson and Sedona MUFON director Jennifer W. Stein will lead a Q&A following the screening.
For more information, visit SedonaMUFON.org.
Event Details:
- Date: Sunday, July 21
- Time: 6:00 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
- Venue: The Global Center for Christ Consciousness, 100 Northview Road, Sedona, AZ 86336
- Admission: $15.00 at the door (cash preferred).
MUFON is the largest nonprofit, civilian-run UFO organization in the world. It publishes a monthly journal, holds an annual symposium, and currently has more than 800 trained field investigators and 3500 members throughout the globe.