Swap meet outside the Wayne Theatre, Bicknell. Reception, the Diablo restaurant, Torrey.Ĩ a.m. Opening gala and film, "The Day The Earth Stood Still," Wayne Theatre, Bicknell.ĩ:30 p.m. For information about lodging in Wayne County, call 1-80.ħ p.m. "I've been rejected from a lot of film festivals," he said.įor more information about the event, call the festival's Salt Lake office at 322-1652. This is Harris' first effort at organizing a film festival, but he does have some experience. If he doesn't, we're going to give him the award every year until he does." "His first name was Wayne, that was a big part of it," Harris said. After exhaustive study, the mythical Waynes Award panel decided the honor will go to Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton. But it won't go to a filmmaker participating in the festival. Like any other film festival, the Bicknell event will offer its own "prestigious" award - the Waynes Award. Harris hopes several stars from the industry will show up, including Stefene Russell, featured in Harris' film "Plan 10 From Outer Space," and Russian filmmaker Evgeny Yufit. with a swap meet where festival-goers can "swap anything you want, preferably wives," said Harris, who later that day will lead a guided tour of the Butch Cassidy Monster Museum in nearby Hanksville.Īmong those expected to be on the UFO panel Saturday evening: Mildred Biesele, state director for the Mutual UFO Network, and Walter Hart, a visual effects producer whose work has appeared in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." That's seven right there," Harris said.Īt Friday night's reception, Bob Moss of Salt Lake City will sing original songs about UFOs. Harris expects somewhere between 15 and 300 people to attend the festival.
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Tickets are $25 for the entire festival, $10 per night for the movie and reception or $5 for individual movie tickets. The festival is partially funded by the Utah Travel Council, which contributed $2,000, and the Wayne County Travel Council, which donated $500. Some of the featured bugs may have come from outer space, however, Harris acknowledged. Next year, the festival's theme will be "big bug movies" - sci-fi flicks featuring large insects. "There's a great place called Luna Mesa, which is a wonderful Mexican restaurant out in the middle of nowhere and they're always seeing flying saucers around there, too."īut Bicknell's moment in the UFO tourism spotlight will be short-lived. "They actually do see a lot of flying saucers down there," Harris said. The Aquarius Plateau, the 7,100-foot plane where Bicknell is located, has a reputation among some locals for being a site of unusual aerial phenomena, according to Harris and James Anderson, owner of the theater. The Wayne Theatre was built in 1947 - coincidentally, the same year a flying disc allegedly crashed in the desert north of Roswell.
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"There's plenty of free parking," said Harris, a Salt Lake City filmmaker who shot portions of his 1991 film "Rubin and Ed" in the desert surrounding Bicknell.
The festival will feature two sci-fi classics, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Forbidden Planet," and several UFO-oriented short films, including Paul Vester's "Abductees." There will be a pinto bean pie giveaway, post-movie parties both nights and a panel of "experts" who will discuss UFOs and filmmaking. "We really see this as a celebration of small, hometown theaters and as a tribute to their contributions and to the community's cultural vibrancy," said Smith, one of the originators of the Sundance Film Festival and the director of producer services for the Utah Film Commission. They just want to have a good time and show off the historic Wayne Theatre, where the festival will be held. "There's not too many dollars here."įestival co-founders Trent Harris and Lory Smith aren't out to make big bucks. "If you can generate tourist dollars in Bicknell, you're doing pretty good," Mayor Sherwood Albrecht said. And that's just fine with town officials.
The theme for the inaugural event is "UFOria," which means the town's two restaurants and 59 motel rooms could be filled with UFO and sci-fi enthusiasts. The festival is billed by its promoters as "the largest international film festival in southern Utah" and "the smallest international film festival in the world." Well, not exactly.But Bicknell and its 355 residents are bracing themselves for an invasion of movie buffs for the first Bicknell International Film Festival, July 26-27. The tiny town of Bicknell is poised to become the first Utah community to capitalize on UFO mania and take its rightful spot alongside such paranormal tourist traps as Roswell, N.M., and Rachel, Nev.
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