“Experiencer” Official Trailer
Watch Experiencer now: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/experiencer
As public interest in government disclosure, whistleblowers, and official statements reaches an all-time high, most films focus on institutions and authority figures. Experiencer takes a different approach by focusing on the past 80 years of experiencer stories that continue to this day. Long before congressional hearings and media attention made the topic mainstream, people were already living with encounters that changed their lives forever.
Experiencer is a feature-length documentary that explores one of the most overlooked aspects of the UFO and UAP conversation: the people who have actually lived it…
About the film
At the heart of the film is Eric Mitchell, whose close encounters with unexplained phenomena led to years of fear, isolation, and personal upheaval. Through firsthand testimony, archival footage, animation, and visual storytelling, Experiencer examines what happens after an encounter and the lasting psychological, emotional, and social impact it can have. This is not a film about proving whether UFOs are real. It is about what it means to live with something that cannot be explained and cannot be forgotten.
Experiencer was filmed over several years beginning in 2020 and was independently produced and funded by three people. Ben Jinkins and Joe Strelsky, hosts of the UFO Garage Podcast in Austin Texas, teamed up with Austin Texas filmmaker Nicco Renna to create a grounded and respectful documentary that treats experiencers as human beings rather than spectacle. The film is directed and produced by Nicco Renna, Ben Jinkins, and Joe Strelsky.
The documentary features Eric Mitchell along with Melinda Leslie, Jim Goodall, Lorien Fenton, and Erin Montgomery, alongside additional experiencers and voices from the community.
Two weeks after Experiencer was released on Vimeo, the heavily funded and widely promoted documentary The Age of Disclosure premiered on Amazon. While that film successfully brought government insiders and whistleblowers into the mainstream conversation, many viewers were left with unanswered questions. Experiencer exists to explore what comes next. Instead of focusing on official narratives, it looks at the human side of the phenomenon and the people who have been living with these experiences for decades.
Early festival feedback and online reviews have praised Experiencer for its technical quality, emotional honesty, and respectful approach. Viewers and reviewers have noted the film’s ability to take a controversial subject and present it in a way that feels grounded, human, and accessible without sensationalism.
At its core, Experiencer is about connection, resilience, and the message that those who have had these experiences are not alone. While the public conversation around UFOs continues to evolve, the lives of experiencers remain largely misunderstood. This film exists to help change that.
You can watch or rent Experiencer here:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/experiencer
Reviews
“Okay, this one’s going to make some people go, “Really, Warren? UFOs?” and my answer is: yes, really — because it’s not actually about UFOs, it’s about people who had something happen and still have to go to work on Monday.
Technically, it’s impressive — they throw the whole toolkit at it: archival, news, interviews, vérité, animation, even some VFX to help visualize stuff you obviously can’t film. And it all works together. No sloppy seams.
The reason it belongs here is because it takes a “niche” topic and makes it human and accessible. Centering Eric Mitchell gives us an emotional throughline, and the film respects the experiencer community instead of mocking or sensationalizing them. That’s a hard balance to pull off.”
– Warren Workman
Review Source: https://warrenworkman.com/10-dont-miss-biographical-docs/