The Vast of Night

The Vast of Night is a 2019 American mystery science fiction film directed by Andrew Patterson, written by Patterson and Craig W. Sanger and starring Sierra McCormick and Jake Horowitz. This film is based on the Kecksburg UFO incident and Foss Lake disappearances.
== Premise ==
In New Mexico in the 1950s, two kids search for the source of a mysterious frequency that has descended on their town; they soon uncover more than they had counted on.
== Cast ==
*Sierra McCormick as Fay Crocker
*Jake Horowitz as Everett Sloan
*Gail Cronauer as Mabel Blanche
*Bruce Davis as Billy
*Greg Peyton as Benny
*Mark Banik as Gerald
== Production ==
According to Andrew Patterson, the director, this film was an idea he came up with in the 2000s, which simply said: "1950s black and white. New Mexico, UFO landing." He later on wrote the Patterson wrote the script with Craig W. Sanger, although he registered the script with the WGA under the pseudonym James Montague, who is also listed as the producer. Patterson was also the person who budgeted the film himself with earnings from his commercials and shorts.
At a budget of $700,000, filming took a total of three to four weeks, start in September, during the fall of 2016. The filming was shot in Whitney, Texas. They chose that town because it was selected after looking through many towns to find one with the right gymnasium. In order to get the period details correct, the production team removed the three-point line of the basketball court in the gym at a cost of $20,000, and they found functional switchboards which were used at that time. The cinematography for the film was by M.I. Littin-Menz and Patterson spent a year editing the film.
== Release ==
The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival before going on the big screen at several other film festivals. Later on, Amazon Studios acquired the distribution rights to the movie in September 2019 before releasing its trailer on 6 February 2020. The film was later re-released in drive-in cinemas in the United States on May 15, 2020, two weeks before being exclusively available for digital streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
== Awards and nominations ==
*At the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival, it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.
*At the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, it was named first runner-up for the People's Choice Award in the Midnight Madness category.
*It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Overlook Film Festival and a Special Cinematography Award at the 2019 Hamptons International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards and Best International Feature film at the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
*At the 2021 Critics' Choice Super Awards, it received three nominations for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie, and Best Actor and Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie for Horowitz and McCormick, respectively.
Category:2019 science fiction films
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