2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Opening Night Feature: Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE // Named 2023 Sundance Film Festival “Best of Fest” Winner*
*WRITER/PRODUCER IN ATTENDANCE*

Comedy Family Sci-Fi
  • Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
  • Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
  • Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
  • This Wild Abyss

Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out

Itsy Levan is devastated by her parents’ decision to leave the city and buy a fixer upper in the middle of nowhere. Her life seems over until she meets her space- obsessed neighbor Calvin Kipler. Calvin has spent most of his life awaiting the next arrival of Jesper’s Comet— partly because of his obsession with Astronomy, but mostly because the last time it came, ALIENS ABDUCTED HIS PARENTS! This year he is going to be ready for its return so he can finally get them back. Itsy sees this as a chance to help her get into a NYC journalism program and decides to help him, however crazy his plan seems. They end up discovering much more than what is on the other end of the comet’s tail.

*Named 2023 Sundance Film Festival “Best of Fest” Winner*

  • DIRECTOR
    Jake Van Wagoner
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    87 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA
Pre-Feature Short: A Michigan Frontrunner

This Wild Abyss

*WRITER/PRODUCER IN ATTENDANCE*
A former cowboy turned janitor with an eighth-grade education, Milt Humason forms an unlikely friendship with astronomer Edwin Hubble and assists him at Mt. Wilson Observatory, a partnership that leads to their discovery that the universe is expanding.

  • DIRECTOR
    Thomas Mendolia
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    23 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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