EXCLUSIVE : Kat Cunning ( Rap Sh!t ), McCabe Slye ( Fear Street ), Connor Paolo ( The Last Stop in Yuma County ) and Eddie Martinez ( Night Swim ) are set to topline Star People , an independently financed sci-fi drama marking the first narrative feature from writer-director Adam Finberg ( The Business of Recovery ), which has wrapped production in and around the Phoenix area. Also in the cast are Martinez’s daughter Adriana Aluna Martinez (Max’s Duster ), who here makes her feature debut, and Bradley Fisher ( Beau Is Afraid ). Related Stories Casting Mark Walhberg & Paul Walter Hauser To Star In Amazon MGM Action Comedy ‘Balls Up’ From Peter Farrelly Casting Odessa Young Joins Jeremy Allen White In Bruce Springsteen Pic ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Inspired by The Phoenix Lights of 1997, the largest mass UFO sighting in U.
S. history, which saw assorted unidentified flying objects observed in the skies over the southwestern U.S.
, Star People tells the story of a photographer who receives a tip that could finally shed light on her childhood UFO sighting, though a deadly heatwave and unexpected guests threaten to derail her obsessive search for answers. The film is produced by Wall Fly’s Josh Shader ( Winter Spring Summer or Fall ) and cast by Kendra Clark and Helen Geier of ClarkGeier Casting. An actor and singer seen in two seasons of the Max comedy Rap Sh!t , Cunning has also been seen on Netflix’s Trinkets and HBO’s The Deuce , as well as in films like Marry .