Jasdip Sagar, right, talks to Mark Silcox, ‘Uncle Shady’ from TV’s Man Like Mobeen comedy-drama

SOHO film-maker Jasdip Sagar is putting the finishing touches to his latest work – Reel Encounters.

The philosophical movie, questioning whether there is a “mysterious force that connects us all”, stars Bhasker Patel (Emmerdale), Lucy Speed (EastEnders), Andrew Lancel (Coronation Street), Jon Campling (who was in a famous Death-Eater scene in Harry Potter movies), and Mark Silcox (Man Like Mobeen TV show).

It includes interviews with some wonderful characters – including UFO “abductees”, a time-traveller, psychonauts, remote viewers, tantric goddesses, cyber punks and a psychic spy.

“I framed the movie in a way that starts out mocking the UFO believers, but then I start believing a bit.

“These people may sound crazy but they believe what they think. Some are quoting from studies and, in the case of the psychonauts who experiment with drugs like DMT, they are actually things. One guy told me how he saw a huge creature with four legs jump over his car: it was the size of a horse.”

Mr Sagar told how he was given by one interviewee a “UFO detector” that works with infrared beams. Another claimed to be speaking to him from a few hundred years in the future, explaining how advanced societies had solved a key puzzle at the heart of quantum physics, enabling time travel.

Mr Sagar, whose last film Made for Reel won a string of awards and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, works with special effects on high-level TV series and Hollywood blockbusters.

He said: “I am trying to get to a point with the movie where we think about how we are all connected. I mean we are all essentially made of stardust, we were once all entangled. I used to believe that consciousness was an imagined property in the brain. But after making the movie, I’m leaning more towards it being something that exists outside the brain. Something at the end changed my whole paradigm.

“I can’t say too much about it, but it will be a shock for the viewers.

“They are among us…”