Found Footage Festival $10

New York, NY The Found Footage Festival, the popular touring showcase of odd and hilarious clips from found videotapes, is coming to your city. Having played to sold out crowds in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities around the country, the Found Footage Festival curators are looking forward to bringing their brand-new lineup of video clips and live comedy to selected cities in the U.S. in 2009.The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that compiles over an hours worth of footage from videotapes that were found at garage sales and thrift stores, and in warehouses and trash bins throughout the country. Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively 90-minute celebration of all things found.Among the clips in last years show:Highlights from a cable access talent show called Stairway to StardomA collection of exercise videos featuring Marky Mark Wahlberg, O.J. Simpson and a group of rapping pregnant ladiesAn instructional video for a cosmetic device so frightening that it will forever haunt you...The Found Footage Festival has been named a Critics Pick in dozens of publications, including The Onion, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, and on Wired.com. The curators have been featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, G4s Attack of the Show and recently on National Public Radio. The Onion lauded, bank on a big crowd and more than a few laughs at the expense of videotaped others.ABOUT THE CURATORSNick Prueher and Joe Pickett began collecting found videotapes in 1991 after stumbling across a McDonalds training video entitled, Inside and Outside Custodial Duties. Since then, they have compiled an impressive collection of strange, outrageous and profoundly stupid videos. Pickett, a former film technician, and Prueher, a former segment producer at the Late Show with David Letterman, have written for The Onion and recently directed the feature-length documentary, Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival.FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL ACCOLADESNamed a Critics Pick in dozens of publications, including The Onion, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, CitySearch, Flavorpill and The Chicago TribuneThe subject of multi-page features in Punk Planet magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Resonance magazine and on Wired.comFeatured on Jimmy Kimmel Live, G4s Attack of the Show, and National Public Radio