Aliens & Artists Deck

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1. Aliens & Artists A doc series on artists and otherworldly phenomena By STUART EVAN DAVIS
2. Concept Aliens and UFOs are perennial favorites. Shows such as Ancient Aliens, Sightings, and The X-Files are hugely popular. Movies like Close Encounters, Contact, and Arrival are big box office hits. The list is long, the audience is huge– today as many Americans believe in aliens as do believe in God. But one story has yet to be told, and that is the mind-blowing connection between ALIENS & ARTISTS. It is arguably the biggest untold story in showbiz. Iconic artists report rst-hand encounters with aliens and UFOs. They say these experiences radically altered their lives, profoundly impacted their art. JIMI HENDRIX and his band reported their lives were saved by the direct intervention of a UFO and alien. ELVIS claimed life-long direct contact with extra terrestrials, and said he was originally from a planet in the Orion constellation. YAPHET KOTTO, star of the movie Alien, says his life was changed when an entity rst appeared in his room as a child, and he’s seen them ever since. The MOODY BLUES report their entire band encountered a UFO and had over three hours of ‘missing time’. Countless stars have had life-changing encounters with UFOs and Aliens. These artists tell extraordinary tales of abduction and contact, including Lupe Fiasco, Whitley Strieber, Santana, Bud Hopkins, Kesha, Federico Fellini, Robbie Williams, Ingo Swan, Shirley Maclain, Mick Jagger, and many more. The phenomenon forever alters musicians, painters, actors, lm directors, and tv stars. Many are famous, some are not. ALIENS & ARTISTS is the rst series to take a deep look at the transformations artists undergo as a result of their encounters with highly strange phenomena. The way these events impact their creativity is enormous, but until now, unexplored. This series focuses on the events the artists report, and how those experiences alter their lives, for better or worse.
3. Sample Episode WHITLEY STRIEBER, and JEFFREY KRIPAL join us to explore one of the most notorious artist accounts of all-time. STRIEBER is author of the world-wide phenomenon Communion. It recounts his decades-long encounters with non-human entities. His lms have brought in hundreds of millions at the box office. He has received nearly half a million letters from other experiencers who wanted to share their abduction experiences. His nonconsensual, ongoing relationship with alien others forever altered his life and art. KRIPAL is arguably the world’s foremost authority on how art and artists are changed by extraordinary experiences with non-human entities. He is a tenured professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, and is author of many books including Authors of the Impossible, Mutants and Mystics, and Super Natural. SEGMENT ONE: Whitley Strieber recounts his bizarre and traumatic experiences with alien entities. We intercut his harrowing story with B-Roll from the locations where many of the incidents occurred. SEGMENT TWO: Jeffrey Kripal expands further on how Strieber and other artists see their artwork profoundly altered and in uenced through their relationship with non-human intelligences. SEGMENT THREE: Strieber dives deeper into how his creativity and artwork were reshaped by his confounding experiences. He takes us on a tour of his imaginal identity before, during, and after these experiences with alien forces.  
4. SEGMENT FOUR: We compare Strieber’s story with that of legendary artist JIMI HENDRIX. Hendrix and his band were stuck in a snow storm so bad they feared for their lives. Then, an acorn-shaped craft descended from the sky and landed near their vehicle. A tall being emerged, oated over toward their vehicle, and radiated heat, warming all the people in the car, and melting the snow in the area. It saved their lives and led them home. Hendrix reported telepathic communication with the entity. LEON HENDRIX, Jimi’s brother and a musician and artist himself, appears in the segment to discuss UFO enounters he had shared with Jimi and to talk about brother’s long-standing fascination with UFOs. SEGMENT FIVE: We intercut between Strieber and Kripal, exploring various interpretations for what may be behind these events. Also bigger questions such as;   • Can and should artists seek these types of experiences? • Are there tools for protecting ones self when these paranormal partnerships form? • How much can human artists know about non-human consciousness? • What might be the goal or bene t to the alien entity in these relationships? Sample Episode con’t
5. The Team Stuart Evan Davis, creator and showrunner, is a contemporary musician, writer, director, artist, and television personality who has recounted his own paranormal experiences in the audio documentary Man Meets Mantis and on radio shows such as Coast to Coast. As a musician, he has released twenty albums of original music. Stuart wrote, directed, and hosted the national TV series Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll, which aired for two seasons on AXS TV in North America. His family starred in House of Davis, a doc series written and directed by Stuart and produced by Conscious Life in London, and a comedy show of his was recently picked up for development by Guilty Humor Productions. A practicing Zen Buddhist, Stuart currently makes a living as a screenwriter and director in Boulder, Colorado. Meagen Gibson is an award winning journalist, television producer and director. She has produced lms, commercials and major broadcast network television, including Emmy winning programs The Voice and Who Do You Think You Are? with Shed Media, Mark Burnett Productions, One Three Media, Pilgrim Films and Television and The Institute, and most recently completed How I Created A Cult, which is being sold through TCB Media. Siona van Dijk is the founder and CEO of 5-HT2A Productions, a former Executive Director at Gaiam (now Gaia TV), and former CEO of Zaadz, Inc, a social media platform for cultural creatives. She prides herself on a commitment to protecting investor interests.    
6. The Team Benjamin Wolf, director of photography, began his career on the highly successful PBS series West Virginia. After moving to New York City in the late 1990’s, Benjamin continued working in non- ction with lms such as African American Lives and Losing It while also expanding into more narrative and commercial projects. Today he has over a dozen award winning features and shorts to his credit, including Pater Familias, Talking to Stan, and It’s About Ugliness. After establishing the look as DP for 25 episodes of the cinematic ghost show Paranormal State on A&E, Benjamin began directing the series for the next 35 episodes. Potential editors include Damon Brewster, Eric Sievering, Nicholas Siapkaris, and Kaylyn Thomal.all industry veterans with experience in the paranormal genre.  
7. The Opportunity The producers are seeking $100k to shoot a pilot episode of ALIENS & ARTISTS. Aliens & Artists, LLC will assign senior status to the investor’s stake in the company. In return for Investor’s cash contribution of $100,000 USD toward the production and completion of the Aliens & Artists TV pilot episode, upon sale or licensing of the TV series for broadcast, investors shall receive a 30% return above their principle contribution of $100,000 This initial return of principle plus pro t shall constitute $130,000 USD. After the initial return, Investor shall retain 50% ownership in the series through their 50% holdings in Aliens & Artists, LLC. This 50% ownership in Aliens & Artists, LLC entitles Investor to 50% of the pro ts of the series, for the life of the series, in all territories of the world, on all platforms of broadcast.
8. Additional Episodes Star of the movie Alien, YAPHET KOTTO recounts never-before shared details of his direct encounters with aliens and UFOs. He relates how the extraordinary experiences have shaped his life as an artist. It all began when he was just a child and encountered a non-human entity in his home with an elongated head and enormous eyes. He’s been seeing anomalous things ever since, including a multiple- witness sighting of a “UFO as big as Yankee Stadium turned upside down. The thing blotted out the entire sky,” says Kotto. “I really don’t care whether anyone thinks I’m delusional,” the actor declares. “My delusion is over.” We also review the mind-blowing facts about the king of rock ’n roll, ELVIS PRESLEY. He reported life-long interaction with alien beings, and experienced multiple-witness sightings in his life. When he was born the house he was in became engulfed in blue light. At ve years old, he said he was contacted by an alien intelligence that told him he originated from a planet in the Orion constellation. It foretold his fame, and other details of his life. Elvis and his entire entourage encountered a cigar-shaped mother ship which knocked his security guard unconscious. Elvis’s own account of these events is preserved in hours of voice recordings made by his request.
9. Additional Episodes Christina ENGELHARDT tells the astonishing, crazy story of how Federico FELLINI enlisted her in a years-long interaction with aliens who sent them on a series of bizarre, exhausting missions which hugely impacted both of their careers as artists. For years Fellini was plagued by direct demands and instructions from extraterrestrials seeking to direct his art and the lives of those around him. It was in turns inspiring, confounding, and tormenting. We also take a look at LUPE FIASCO’s profound experience from 1993. The artist woke up at 7:00am, shocked to nd himself surrounded by a “blue electricity”. Unable to move, he called to his sleeping cousin, but his cousin did not respond. Fiasco then remembers looking out the window and seeing a black disc y down from the sky, hover, then take off out of sight.
10. Additional Episodes Truly one of the most bewildering stories in the artist / alien dynamic, THE MOODY BLUES had an abduction experience that involved the entire band. They were completely sober when the event occurred. The entire band was in one vehicle on the way home from a show when they encountered a UFO. They pulled over, and all sound went silent in a classic ‘high strangeness’ detail. Suddenly no animals, no traffic could be heard. They were mesmerized by the craft, and felt as though they were in an altered reality. The UFO landed near their vehicle. Drummer Graeme Charles Edge reported he was a changed man after the incident. The entire band had three hours of missing time. The event changed the direction of the band’s art to a decidedly ‘cosmic’ in uence. Additionally, New Jersey Painter and subject of the lm Love and Saucers, DAVID HUGGINS says he lost his virginity to an alien woman. He claims dozens of children with non-human entities, and has depicted his experiences in hundreds of paintings.
11. Additional Episodes JULIENA OKEH is a Japanese artist and author of One Life, Many Worlds : My Journey Through the Heavens and Hells of Extraterrestrial Worlds. As a young girl in post-World War II Japan, non- human beings gured powerfully in her life and led her down an unimaginable path. It was a rough passage. The con ict between her paranormal experiences and her rational family’s disbelief led Juliena to attempt suicide at age seventeen. She was returned to this world by her alien companions. Also, from his Manhattan window, JOHN LENNON and his lover, photographer MAY PENG, watched a Lear-jet sized object at a distance of one hundred feet. It oated slowly by his apartment. He said it was so close he could have thrown something and hit it. He was not on drugs at the time. He shouted “Stop, take me with you!” Lennon also claimed four Mantis-like creatures had come to him in the night. Not a dream. Not on drugs.
12. Additional Episodes SANTANA credits the alien entity Metatron with the transformation of his art and spiritual practice. Metatron was initially channeled in a meditation session, then began communicating with Santana directly. Santana reports that Metatron guided him through the Grammy-winning Supernatural recording process. “It’s an enormous peace, the few times I have felt the presence in the room,” he says. “I feel lit up. I’m not Carlos anymore, I’m not bound to DNA anymore. It’s beyond sex, it’s beyond anything that this world could give you a buzz.” Metatron told Santana he would make a new album and be on the radio again. He would connect an audience with some of the spiritual information he now had. We also take a look back at INGO SWAN. The ‘Cosmic’ artist is known for being the pioneer along with Russel Targ and Harold Puhoff, of Remote Viewing. He worked closely on secret government programs and claimed to remote view aliens on the far side of the moon, as well as secret bases on Earth. He painted visionary, ‘cosmic art’ largely informed by his work with aliens and their spiritual impact on humanity.
13. Additional Episodes RAUL SEIXAS, arguably the most famous Brazilian musician to ever live, was another artist who claimed UFO contact. Seixas passed away in 2006 but his friend PAULO COEHLO, author of The Alchemist and a UFO experiencer in his own right, wrote the lyrics on at least one of his albums and is available for a segment. Seixas’s song S.O.S. was in uenced by his experiences of being contacted by aliens and taken onboard a craft. SUN RA, the American Jazz composer and experimental musician, has a fascinating story, in part because it predates all mainstream reports of UFO phenomenon. In 1936 he claimed that while in meditation a bright light appeared around him and that: "My whole body changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up... I wasn't in human form... I landed on a planet that I identi ed as Saturn... they teleported me and I was down on [a] stage with them. They wanted to talk with me. They had one little antenna on each ear. A little antenna over each eye. They talked to me. They told me to stop [attending college] because there was going to be great trouble in schools... the world was going into complete chaos... I would speak [through music], and the world would listen. That's what they told me." Ra dropped out of college and went on to record over one- hundred full-length albums, making him one of the most proli c artists of the 20th century.
14. Additional Episodes KE$HA said the UFO sightings she had one night in Joshua Tree were the inspiration for her new album Rainbow. She has spoken at length about her relationship with extraterrestrials– going so far as to get a UFO tattoo on her wrist-- and regularly posts about alien abductions. NICK JONAS, of the Jonas Brothers, had a UFO sighting that changed his life at fourteen. He has been “obsessed” by UFO phenomenon ever since. DAVID HACKNEY, lead guitarist and singer of the band DEATH, claimed visionary contact with UFO / alien entities. The story of Death is both fascinating and heartbreaking-- they were one of the pioneers of punk music, though as a group of African Americans from Detroit (and Hackney's insistence on the name of the band) had a difficult time landing a record deal. Hackney later became an addict and eventually died of alcoholism. His brothers / bandmates attribute his depression to the failure of the vision obtained through his contact; today their music is recognized as ahead of its time.  
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