Moby joins Welcome Space Brothers as co-executive producer

By AI, Created 1:48 PM UTC, May 18, 2026, /AGP/ – Moby and his production company Little Walnut have signed on as co-executive producers of Welcome Space Brothers, a documentary about the Unarius Academy of Science that is heading into a nationwide theatrical tour this summer. The film has already premiered at Beyond Fest and picked up festival awards in Chicago and Oregon.

Why it matters: - Moby’s involvement adds a high-profile name to a documentary about a little-known spiritual school and self-healing community. - Welcome Space Brothers is moving from the festival circuit to a nationwide theatrical tour this summer. - The film’s expanding profile may help bring a niche subject to a broader audience.

What happened: - Moby and Little Walnut joined Welcome Space Brothers as co-executive producers. - The feature documentary centers on The Unarius Academy of Science. - The film premiered at Beyond Fest, which marked the festival’s first nonfiction world premiere. - Welcome Space Brothers played additional festivals across the country. - The film won the Special Jury Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. - The film also won Best Historical Documentary at the Oregon Independent Film Festival. - The film is presented by XTR, Diorama, SpectreVision and A Museum & Crane in association with Little Walnut and The Front. - The nationwide theatrical tour is scheduled for this summer.

The details: - Welcome Space Brothers explores The Unarius Academy of Science, an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school and self-healing community founded in the 1970s in El Cajon, California. - The community became a prolific filmmaking collective under Ruth E. Norman, who also used the name “Archangel Uriel.” - Moby said he became interested in cult history after moving to Los Angeles and that his earlier connection to filmmaker Jodi Wille led him to support the project. - Moby is widely known for 1990s and early 2000s electronic music that blended techno, ambient, rock and gospel. - Moby’s 1999 album Play helped push electronic music into the mainstream, including tracks such as “Porcelain,” “Natural Blues” and “Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?” - Moby and Lindsay Hicks co-founded Little Walnut, an independent production company focused on scripted and documentary film and television. - Little Walnut has backed projects with distinctive creative voices and activist or socially relevant themes. - Recent Little Walnut festival premieres include The Incomer at Sundance 2026 and Eternal Return at TIFF 2025. - Jodi Wille directs the film. - Wille is known for The Source Family and for curating exhibitions on outsider artists and alternative spiritual communities. - Wille recently curated “Utopia Now! Three Centuries of Sexuality in American Cults and Communes,” now on view at Museum of Sex Miami through November 2026. - Wille has been presenting and documenting The Unarius Academy of Science since 2014. - Caryn Capotosto and Jodi Wille produced the documentary. - The executive producers include Bryn Mooser, Kathryn Everett, Tony Hsieh, Andy Hsieh and Lauren Cioffi for XTR; Matthew Perniciaro, Jimmy Goodmon and Kelsey Oluk for Diorama; Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Lawrence Inglee for SpectreVision; Josh Braun, Ben Braun, Dan Braun and Matt Burke for Submarine; and Jack Pearkes, Nion McEvoy, Leslie Berriman, Thalia Mavros, Robert Ganger, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. - Moby and Lindsay Hicks are co-executive producers. - SpectreVision, run by Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, has backed genre-bending films including Mandy, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Color Out of Space.

Between the lines: - The project blends cult-history fascination, outsider-art documentation and festival-driven credibility. - Moby’s credit signals a continued push by documentary backers to pair niche subjects with recognizable creative names. - Jodi Wille’s long-term documentation of Unarius suggests the film is built on years of access and archival attention.

What’s next: - Welcome Space Brothers is headed to a nationwide theatrical tour this summer. - The film’s festival momentum and new co-executive producer attachment could help drive awareness ahead of the rollout. - Additional audience and critical response will likely shape the film’s broader visibility after theaters.