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By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com
A group of comedians make a hybrid documentary about chasing aliens in Dreamland: A Storming Area 51 Story, a staged, goofy movie with Blair Witch Project production vibes. It all started in September 2019, when a Facebook meme encourage alien hunters to storm the Top Secret military base in the Nevada desert. This gave director, co-writer and star Brian Moreno the idea to grab a camera crew, hit the road from Los Angeles, and drive an r.v. out to tiny town of Rachel to capture the event. The result is this film.
Moreno mixes fiction with reality, combining interviews with real UFO aficionados, actual local news coverage, and cinema vérité footage of the event with a couple of funny subplot...