Above: clip from WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS

WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS (2023)

WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS is a feature documentary that unveils the true story of The Unarius Academy of Science, a long-running extraterrestrial-channeling, self-healing spiritual school in El Cajon, California, whose students in the late 1970s became a wildly prolific filmmaking and art collective under the direction of outlandish spiritual leader and visionary filmmaker Ruth E. Norman, AKA “Archangel Uriel.”

Director: Jodi Wille (The Source Family)

Producer: Caryn Capotosto (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Little Richard: I Am Everything)

Exec. Producers: XTR (Bryn Mooser, Kathryn Everett), Diorama Media (Matt Perniciaro), Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Josh Braun (Submarine), Thalia Mavros (The Front), Rob Ganger, SpectreVision (Lawrence Ingle, Daniel Noah & Elijah Wood)

Sales agents: Submarine Entertainment/Submarine Deluxe
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THE SOURCE FAMILY (2012, 98 mins.)

The Source Family was a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. Their outlandish style, popular health food restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and the unconventional behavior of their spiritual leader, Father Yod, caused controversy with local authorities. More >>

Directors: Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos

Wall Street Journal “…a strange and beautiful parable about the rise, fall and surprisingly influential afterlife of a 60’s love cult.”

The New York Times Style Magazine “Such a pure expression of an archetypal 1970s psychedelic subculture that it feels like an ornate and elaborate invention.

Vice “…outrageously spaced-out drama…”

Badass Digest “…mind-blowing in the extreme.”

“We Are Not Alone” (2016, 11 mins.)

“We Are Not Alone” is a glimpse of the epic story of Unarius and the group’s exuberant, radically benevolent leader Ruth E. Norman, aka Archangel Uriel. Uriel took her ambitious collective of students on a quest to explore the mysteries of the universe and achieve personal transformation by producing a film library of wildly imaginative psychodramas. Prized by collectors for years, they are some of the most mind-blowing examples of outsider cinema.