MIFS: Where did the idea for the film come from?
Two places. The seed came from the idea I had to challenge myself to write a story that took place entirely in one location. The concept was that of a person sitting alone in his room, observing some kind of global event that was taking place exclusively by what they could see out of there window or what the saw on tv or the internet. Which is realistically I think how the majority of the population would experience it.  At the time I was also greatly disturbed by the fact that we are a nation at war for seven years, and no body seems to pay any attention. Some how the two thoughts melded and an alien visitation that happened seven years before the start of the movie became an allegory for the Iraq war. Sometimes important things happen and are forgotten before they are finished, that's kind of the theme.