Itsy tries to learn about her space-obsessed neighbor, Calvin in director Jake Van Wagoner's filmed-in-Utah comedy "Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Left Out," an official selection of the Kids section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.Jake Van Wagoner grew up on movies like “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” and “The Goonies” — coming-of-age stories that, as he put it, didn’t talk down to kids and didn’t pander to adults.
Wagoner is a veteran director of “Studio C,” the BYUtv sketch comedy series — and Kaleidoscope Pictures, the company behind “Studio C,” is one of the production companies making the movie. That’s also where Wagoner previously worked with producer Micah W. Merrill, cinematographer Jeremy Prusso, editor Whitney Houser, production designer Ashley Cook, and other crew members.
Before becoming a director, Van Wagoner said, he worked as a unit production manager, production assistant and other jobs on shooting sets — and built relationships by working on other people’s projects. The production filmed all over Utah — from tiny Wallsburg to Midway and Heber. The more intense outdoor scenes were shot at Wasatch Mountain State Park, near Midway. The crew even hit Palmyra, a small town between Spanish Fork and Springville.
“UFO,” Van Wagoner said, felt like it had been written for the movie. The cinematographer, Prusso, had worked on a few of the band’s music videos, so they looked over the band’s songs for one they might use, and happened upon “UFO” on the day it was released.
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