A few good words about High Strange New Mexico
Sean Casteel of UFO Magazine did an extensive and well-written piece about the project.
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Here's what Rick Romancito of the Taos News had to say about High Strange
New Mexico is not only home to a rich cultural heritage, beautiful scenery and a prominent place in American history, it also has the dubious distinction of being the center of rather strange phenomenon.
Personally, I’m more apt to be skeptical about a lot of these things — UFO sightings, cattle mutilations, abductions by space aliens, dimensional doorways and such — opting for more concrete explanations and aiming my suspicions at human and natural reasons for why they happen. But one thing we all have to admit is that a lot of these things do seem to occur in our state — or at least people say they do.
Why that seems to be the case was one of the reasons James Lujan and Anthony DellaFlora decided to take a close look at the people affected by the phenomenon. The result of their investigation is called High Strange New Mexico, a video documentary set to be shown during the Taos Talking Picture Festival. (More)
Personally, I’m more apt to be skeptical about a lot of these things — UFO sightings, cattle mutilations, abductions by space aliens, dimensional doorways and such — opting for more concrete explanations and aiming my suspicions at human and natural reasons for why they happen. But one thing we all have to admit is that a lot of these things do seem to occur in our state — or at least people say they do.
Why that seems to be the case was one of the reasons James Lujan and Anthony DellaFlora decided to take a close look at the people affected by the phenomenon. The result of their investigation is called High Strange New Mexico, a video documentary set to be shown during the Taos Talking Picture Festival. (More)
Producer Anthony DellaFlora was a guest on Jerry Pippin's "UFO Files" radio show.
High Strange New Mexico screenings
A working version of High Strange New Mexico was screened at the 1996 Roswell "UFO Encounter." The world premiere of the full-length documentary was held March 28, 1997 at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. A slightly re-edited version of the movie debuted at the 1998 Taos Talking Picture Festival. Here’s a list of selected screenings.
- Roswell UFO Encounter, Roswell, (NM) July 4 & 5, 1996
- Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, (NM) March 28, 1997
- Field and Frame, Albuquerque, (NM) March 29, 1997
- New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, April 29, 1997
- Roswell Inter-arts Organization -- Close Encounters of the Filmmaking Kind Film Festival, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, July 2-6, 1997
- Farmington, (NM) Civic Center, May 17, 1997
- Taos (NM) Talking Picture Festival, April 18, 1998
- The Phi Phenomenon juried film and video show, ARC Gallery, Albuquerque, (NM) May 2, 1998
- Aztec (NM) UFO Festival, May 23-25, 1998
- Vista Grande Community Center, Sandia Park, (NM), Nov. 21, 1998
- REVelation International Film Festival, Perth and Adelaide Australia, March 1999
- Blinding Light Cinema, Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 26-27, 1999
- 17th Annual UFO Congress and Film Festival, Las Vegas, (NV), Feb. 2008 (Winner of the 17th Annual International UFO Congress and EBE Award -- Best Feature Film - UFO Related Theme)
- 12th Annual Gallup (NM) UFO 12th Annual UFO Film Festival, Oct. 23, 2015