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• Actors: Rende Coward, Stanton Friedman, Ross Gabrick, Wes Halula, Budd Hopkins
• Directors: Timothy B. Johnson
• Producers: Roger Nygard, Aki Komine, Hiroshi Sano, Joel Soisson, Michael Leahy
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Synapse Films
• DVD Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004YA1M
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #92,444 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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In 1947, Rancher William ^SMac^T Brazel discovered what looked like a crashed alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico. After reporting his find to Air Force Intelligence officer Jessie Marcel at the Roswell air base, the wreckage was reportedly flown to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Some say it still exists there in Hangar 18^Eothers say it^Rs now at Area 51 in Nevada. Is this crash a figment of overactive imaginations? The U.S. Government isn^Rt talking about it. But, lots and lots of people are...

Did you know that a UFO sighting occurs somewhere every three minutes? If you have ever questioned whether real life is stranger than fiction, put your doubts behind you as the filmmakers who brought you the comedy hit Trekkies take on Roswell, New Mexico, the town famous for extra-terrestrial encounters and government cover ups.

Richard Kronfeld lives in Minnesota and has dreamed for years of traveling to Roswell, New Mexico to research alien abductions and, maybe, even contact an alien intelligence himself. All his friends have moved on and accomplished things in their lives and Kronfeld sees this trip as a way for him to take action for once in his life. The cameras follow Kronfeld as he makes his pilgrimage to the shrine called Roswell. Spend six days in a rented Coachman with two dogs, a film crew, UFO experts and an overdose of alien abductees. Documenting the fanatic-like following that has sprung up around reported extra-terrestrial encounters, Six Days In Roswell is a record of one man^Rs hilarious journey in search of the unknown and a journey in search of himself. This is the perfect DVD addition to any science-fiction fan^Rs video library. Fans of Fox^Rs The X-Files and the WB^Rs Roswell will certainly enjoy this sci-fi comedy hit!

Synapse^Rs DVD of Six Days In Roswell was one of the most critically acclaimed releases of 2000 and the winner of the DVD Association^Rs 2000 DVD Video Excellence Award! Listed on over six TOP TEN DVD Lists of 2000, this dual-layer DVD is loaded with added value and Special Features!

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22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Six Days in My World, September 30, 2000

By	George Hollo (Denton, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL

Produced and Edited by Roger Nygard Directed by Timothy B. Johnson Starring Richard Kronfeld and hundreds of other UFO Enthusiasts, including a rather large Joshua contingent.

Website: http://www.Roswell6.com Coming to Video and DVD in October 2000

Did you know that a UFO sighting occurs somewhere on the planet every three minutes? Hundreds of thousands of unexplained sightings have been reported all around the world, many of which were documented or photographed. 4 million Americans believe they have been abducted. 71% of Americans believe the government knows more than it is telling us about UFOs. Millions of people, including US President Jimmy Carter have claimed they've seen UFOs.

SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL is a documentary about the fanatic-like following that has sprung up around the many UFO sightings and the reported extra-terrestrial encounters. But specifically, the film is the story of one man's search for answers.

Richard Kronfeld lives in Minnesota and has dreamed for years of traveling to Roswell, New Mexico to research alien abductions, and maybe even contact an alien intelligence himself. All his friends have moved on and accomplished things in their lives, and Kronfeld sees this trip as a way for him to take action for once in his life. The cameras follow Kronfeld as he makes his pilgrimage to the shrine called Roswell.

Kronfeld and the film crew arrive in Roswell early the morning of July 1, 1997. Kronfeld's adventure begins with the simple task of finding a room. Unfortunately every hotel within a 50 mile radius is booked. Eventually Kronfeld locates a Roswell resident who agrees to rent out his motor home.

With lodging finally secured, Kronfeld sets out to find some answers. He asks people about their alien beliefs, their UFO sightings, their unexplained abductions, and how these things affect their lives. Kronfeld and the filmmakers speak with hundreds of people, including the famous and infamous figures in the UFO world.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Roger Nygard worked with Tim Johnson on TREKKIES, a documentary about the fans of "Star Trek." Nygard was directing TREKKIES in 1996 and needed somebody to shoot simultaneously at a convention he could not attend. Although Johnson had been shooting and producing industrial videos for ten years at Lifetouch Video Creations in Minneapolis, he had never picked up a film camera. Taking a chance, Tim bought a cheap, wind-up, Russian 16mm camera (a Krasnogorsk, costing about $350 new) and shot several rolls. The footage was terrific, and Nygard sent Johnson to cover other "Star Trek" events.

In January of 1997 as Nygard was nearing completion on TREKKIES, Johnson suggested they film the Roswell UFO Encounter, a celebration planned for the 50th Anniversary of the alleged crash of an alien space ship in 1947. Tim discovered the existence of the event through Richard Kronfeld, one of the featured interviewees in TREKKIES, whom Tim had filmed. In addition to being a Trek fan, Kronfeld is an avid UFO enthusiast, and he was planning to make the pilgrimage to Roswell, to the largest UFO convention in history.

Nygard's response to the idea was, "I'm sure there will be a lot of Trekkies in Roswell, but I'll bet that subject could be a whole film in itself." Johnson agreed, and set out to raise the money to finance the shoot. Johnson called all the rich people he knew (a total of three), pitched the idea, and raised just enough of a budget to cover the trip. With seed money in place, Nygard raised enough additional funding to complete the film.

Every film needs a story, and the filmmakers hit on the idea of focusing the documentary on Richard Kronfeld and his trip to Roswell. "We created a back-story for Rich and his character, a character that is just a subdued exaggeration of who Rich really is," says Nygard. "I discovered in TREKKIES that people open up to you if they feel you are one of them." So the filmmakers set out to create a UFO enthusiast character for Rich, to give them a framework within which to draw out the maximum humor from their subject matter.

After the shoot, Nygard began assembling the footage, The story began to take shape in the form of chapters separated chronologically and thematically. To tie it all together, the filmmakers asked Kronfeld to narrate the film with journal passages. The result is the record of one man's hilarious journey in search of the unknown, and a journey in search of himself.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Six Days In Roswell = BIG FUN, February 14, 2001

By	Brandon Short (Lynchburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews

I truly enjoyed this documentary. I had to stop the movie at times because I was laughing so hard! The makers of "Trekkies" bring you this hilarious film about mild mannered Richard Kronfeld and his quest to learn more about alien abduction by attending the 50th anniv celebration in Roswell, New Mexico.

In his spare time Kronfeld builds Star Trek props and fashions them from household items. The one scene of him dressed as Star Trek's "Captain Pike" and being pulled behind a lawn mower in this hometown's annual "Raspberry Festival" is worth renting this film alone.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Captain Pike part is funny., June 1, 2006

By	Michael L. White "impossiblefunky" (Westland, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Roswell, New Mexico is a nice city with a Walmart and a terrific Mexican restaurant. Roswell also plays host to one of the cheesiest museum-cum-tourist attractions I've seen west of Irish Hills, MI. The better part of the exhibits has re-creations and imaginings of what alien entities or spaceships look like. I guess the price was right (free) but I had hoped for more "historical data" about the Roswell crash and documented sightings and encounters. Instead, the closest one gets to the "secrets of Area 51" are some pictures of "no trespassing" signs.

The most fun to be had at the museum wasn't from the stuff inside but from the people. After browsing around the gift shop, I checked out the museum's library. It was an odd, hushed atmosphere inside; quieter than any library I'd been in before. Stranger still was the handful of people sitting around the lone table. I felt that I had walked into the middle of something. After I jotted down some information about a video on Nikolai Tesla (See CdC #11), I made my way out. Just as I reached the doorway, I heard the woman at the table say to her compatriots in a hushed, stern voice, "It was not a bird!" They were quick to comfort her, "We know, honey, we know!" I had had a close encounter with someone who had had a close encounter!

When I heard about the film SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL, I was afraid that it was some horrid TV movie based on the WB Network show, "Roswell." Luckily, that's not the case. Timothy B. Johnson's documentary features Rich Kronfeld, a sappy Minnesotan seeking a close encounter of the third kind. In fact, he's hoping to be abducted by aliens. Perhaps among them, he'll feel more at home.

Kronfeld takes a trip down to the Roswell U.F.O. Encounter '97, hoping to garner some tips to better meet aliens. As expected, Kronfeld meets some odd folks that make for some entertaining interviews. Johnson's film plays well for a while but, as time goes on, I got the feeling that Kronfeld was more than the audience's foil and, rather, a fictional protagonist.

In an era of rampant mockumentaries, it's difficult to determine what's real and what's not, especially when dealing with this potentially outrageous subject matter. A peek at the film's web site reveals that Kronfeld is far from fictional but, apart from his name and "Star Trek" peccadilloes, his mainstay is comedy. By employing Kronfeld as a hapless interviewer, the creators of SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL do themselves a disservice. There's no need to buttress such inherently interesting subject matter with Kronfeld's hijinks.

Available as both an 81- and 54-minute version (I recommend the shorter), SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL is an attractive, entertaining work.