Trip to Roswell

TRIP TO ROSWELL

Originally conceived of as a feature length film, Trip To Roswell has been a work in progress for several years for Swerve Pictures. A twenty minute preview version of the film was completed in 2001 and has screened at a few select events.

Geoff has developed the characters and ideas from Trip To Roswell into an exciting longer project.

We are very excited by the prospect of presenting the continuing adventures of Frank, Mingo, Dr. Fortunato, Buckler and Mun-Ki on television or in a theatre in the near future...as soon as we know more, we'll let you know right here!

Written, directed, and animated by Geoff Marslett
Produced by Melanie West and Tammy Arnstein

Featuring artwork by Benjamin Bays, Chris Fairbanks, Katie Nott, Christina de los Santos, Carlos Martinez, Heather Coffey, Aaron Hillis, Jake Toy, and Geoff Marslett.

Featuring the voices of Victoria Williams, Howe Gelb, Richard Buckner, Jon Dee Graham, Joe West, Richie Gibbs, Caroline Herring, and T.J. McFarland.

Featuring music by Calexico, James Kochalka Superstar, Joe West and the Sinners, Howe Gelb, Dave Schneider, Rob Schwimmer, and Jeff Lewis.

Deep in the Heart of Texas in the year 2020 AD, the suburbs have spread like weeds across the hill country. Everyone lives in a suburban rancho style stucco house with a red tiled roof. They all park their Ford Lemmings next to their Toyota Replica, and absolutely everyone surfs the Internet incessantly. Frank is your average kid in this near dark future until his parents get him the latest in elective medical implants, the locotron. This device is supposed to allow him to access URL's just by thinking about the site-but Frank is special. He still practices the forgotten art of reading books, and the extra input transforms his implant into a sort of time machine that pulls him into whenever he's reading about. The US Senate Chambers in 1856, Pangia during the fall of the dinosaurs, Paris, in 1969…eventually stranding a twenty five year old "damaged" Frank in Roswell, New Mexico during a 1947 flying saucer crash.

Frank teams up with a talking monkey and a beautiful scientist in a race across 40's New Mexico to get to the space crash in Roswell before an Dr. Fortunato and his robot do. All the while, St. Gene, the newly appointed patron saint of time travel is learning the ropes of his new post as he observes Frank's temporal pioneering. As a stranger out of time Frank gets a closer look at a moment in history when science, cover ups, lies, monkeys, and robots changed the world. Can they stop the crash? Will he get back to his own time? Will mankind's future be forever changed?

This story is filled with ironic second looks at glossed over history. The characters are brought to life by a team of varied artist/animators, distinctive voices (including TJ MacFarland, Richard Buckner, Howe Gelb, Joe West, Victoria Williams and Jon Dee Graham), and an incredible soundtrack (including Calexico, Joe West and the Sinners, Jeff Lewis and James Kochalka Superstar).

AWARDS:
A twenty-five minute preview won the Best Animation Award at CinemaTexas Short Film Festival in Austin Texas in September 2001.

Trip To Roswell was also the recipient of a Texas Filmmakers Production Fund Grant in 2001 and now again in 2004 to continue production as a feature film.

CURRENT PRODUCTION STATUS:
With some new resources and great script, Trip To Roswell is on the front burner again. Throughout the latter half of 2005 there will be some new updates on the project!

We are currently in production on this project.
We are actively pursuing further financing in order to complete it or partnerships to distribute or produce the finished project
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Please check back here for possible upcoming festival screenings of a ten minute preview.

For investment opportunities on this project please contact us.

info@swervepictures.com