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The Found Footage Festival presents a hilarious best-and-worst-of collection of unbelievable discoveries culled from the dark recesses of the vintage VHS vaults. Founders Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher began their lifelong love affair with strange, outrageous, and profoundly stupid videos in high school when they discovered "Inside and Outside Custodial Duties," a training video featuring a pair of McDonald's employees who take extreme pride in mopping up grease and cleaning toilets. In 2004, they launched the Found Footage Festival, a guided tour of their vast VHS library punctuated by informative, hilarious commentary and original where-are-they-now segments. Since then, they have toured the world presenting the most regrettable moments ever captured on videotape: bizarre exercise and celebrity advice videos, abandoned home movies, inexplicable public access television, and the expletive-laden commercial outtakes of an angry salesman which became the subject of the acclaimed 2009 documentary feature Winnebago Man. Nick and Joe are also the masterminds behind a series of local morning TV show pranks, most recently appearing as a strongman duo called Chop & Steele, whose regimen for staying in shape includes lifting cinder blocks, chopping sticks in half, and crushing wicker baskets. Their hilariously inept appearances lead to what Prueher describes as "a really stupid First Amendment battle," all of which will be revealed at this truly one-of-a-kind show. (Seattle International Film Festival)
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