One town, two ways to tell it.

Synopsis

A town that watches the sky, and a filmmaker who came to watch with it.

Capilla del Monte is a small town in the sierras of Córdoba, Argentina, at the foot of Cerro Uritorco. In January 1986 a burnt patch appeared on a hill near the town. A boy said he saw a red light from his window. The story went from a local radio to the national news, and the town became "UFO country".

Forty years on, the town lives by the sky. Healers, guides and retreat leaders came for the energy and stayed. A woman remembers a teacher who took small groups into the hills at night in the 1980s. A woman who grew up in the town tells of a silent triangle over her head at 14. A guide counted lights going into the mountain as a child. Nobody agrees on the details. A journalist who believes says it is hard to separate what people want to be real from the myth.

Leesa Rowland, an actress and producer from New York, came to film these people. On her first night, on Uritorco, she says she saw the lights herself. On a later night she stood on the hills with a crowd and filmed a light. The crowd asked if it was a satellite, a car or an ambulance. Then they watched a light fall slowly onto the mountain and disappear.

The film keeps the camera with the people and lets the viewer decide.

Status

In development, with principal footage shot.

Pending Status wording pending confirmation by VP Media.