A buzzy UFO documentary has landed distribution.
The Age of Disclosure has earned a limited theatrical run in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to quality for Oscar season and an exclusive VOD streaming release on Prime Video. The theatrical and VOD date is Nov. 21, and the film is now available for pre-order.
The documentary caused a stir and plenty of debate when it premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March. Its trailer received more than 22 million cross-platform views, which is said to be a record for a documentary. A new trailer for the project (below) was released Thursday.
The Age of Disclosure, by filmmaker Dan Farah, features on-record interviews with 34 current and former senior members of the U.S. government, military and intelligence community with direct knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena. The film contends there has been an 80-year cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war among major nations to reverse engineer UFO technology. The film comes amid a series of headline-making bipartisan Congressional hearings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) calling for transparency about what the government might know about non-human intelligent life.
Ever since SXSW, Joe Rogan has been a vocal supporter of the project gaining distribution, repeatedly urging streamers to pick up the film. “Amazing documentary, I really hope that gets released somewhere big,” Rogan has said. “Very well done. They think this documentary is going to break the dam. It’s pretty intense.” The Hollywood Reporter‘s review was more skeptical. (“The Age of Disclosure tackles its topic with utmost certainty and sincerity, its interview subjects treating everything they say like it’s established fact, not requiring corroboration or confirmation,” critic Daniel Fienberg wrote.)
Some of the officials interviewed include Secretary of State Marco Rubio (who says in the trailer that, when it comes to UFOs, “even presidents are operating on a need-to-know basis”), New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds and General Jim Clapper (who was a U.S. Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama).
Back in March, Farah discussed making the film in detail with THR, noting, “My goal was to only interview people who had direct knowledge of the UAP topic as a result of their work for the U.S. government, and who would share what they can legally disclose … There are people who want the topic to continue to be kept from the public entirely. So I went to great lengths to make this documentary in secret over the last two-and-a-half years … there are these fundamental facts — like that we’re not alone in the universe — that everyone feels like the public has the right to know, and it’s also in our best interest to make known so that there’s no longer this antiquated, unjust stigma that is making our country fall behind in how seriously this topic is taken.”
From the official description: “The film was granted unprecedented access and support from senior members of the U.S. government, military and intelligence community. Everyone interviewed in the film has direct knowledge of UAP as a result of their work for the U.S. government. The film exposes the profound impact the situation has on the future of humanity, while providing a look behind the scenes with those at the forefront of the bipartisan disclosure effort.”
Farah’s producing credits include Ready Player One, which likewise scored a SXSW Film Festival premiere at the Paramount in 2018. The Age of Disclosure is a Farah Films production, in association with Born Ready Films. Produced and directed by Farah, executive producers are Colin Frederick, Andrew Farah and Shara Senderoff.
