First World (2007)

Director:

Adam Starr

Writer:

Mark Lund (writer)

Release Date:

21 February 2009 (UK)

Genre:

Short | Action | Drama | History | Sci-Fi | War

Tagline:

The Revelation of Mankind

Plot:

In the early 1960's NASA discovered a vast and advanced civilization on the Moon with their first space probes...

Plot Keywords:

Moon | Space | Soviet Union | NASA | John F Kennedy

Cast

Angelina Spicer	...	Secretary of State Elisabeth Seward
Jeffrey Phillips	...	President Robert Anderson
Zebulun Huling	...	Cedric
Lindy Nettleton	...	Prime Minister Allison Colby
Mark Lund	...	Steven Johnson
Marianne Phinney	...	Susan Anderson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Anthony Coppola	...	Secret Service Agent (as Michael Coppola)
Gregg Creeden	...	Chief of Staff
Steven Dennis	...	Secret Service Agent
Dan Fontaine	...	Secret Service Agent
Cynthia Grenier	...	Woman on Beach
Tara Groccia	...	Anchor
John F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jeremy Lamprey	...	Secret Service Agent
Kristi Lynn	...	Aide to the Prime Minister (as Kristi Drake)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive sound)
Ken Rondeau	...	Secret Service Agent
Brandon Stumpf	...	Secret Service Agent
Darren Tow	...	Secret Service Agent
Brittany Wilkinson	...	Lyndsay Seward

Runtime:

USA:25 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

Zone 5 Pictures

Trivia:

When Elisabeth is in her apartment with Cedric and starts to say "but sometimes painful things like this happen....", she is recounting President Ronald Reagan's speech after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Thus when Cedric responds, "A Challenge indeed," he understands what she is saying.

Quotes:

President Robert Anderson: The infiltration into our way of life is nothing less than unprecedented. But the real threat I believe is those that already know.
Susan Anderson: Bob what on Earth are you talking about?
President Robert Anderson: [cell phone rings] Nothing on Earth. Excuse me.

Thought-provoking

In the years bereft of any truly stand-out epics, we are forced to look harder and harder for the smaller gems-in-the-rough. First World is just such a gem. Somewhere between Close Encounters and Stargate, First World doesn't overwhelm you, it sort of sneaks up on you. I screened it first at ApolloCon 2007 (and we'll be showing it again this year), and enjoyed it very much, as did our audience. It's not an action-packed laser-fest, it's a thought-provoking what-if in an alternate universe. If you're looking for oozing aliens and screaming space battles, this is not what you want. If, on the other hand, you want to think about "what's out there" (and just how close "out there" might really be" catch a screening of First World.