Found Footage Festival: Cherished Gems

From nose-picking news anchors to piano-playing rabbits, from accident-prone factory workers to speedo-wearing dancers, from rentable friends to butt campers, this sparking collection of Found Footage Festival's most cherished VHS finds has it all! Recorded live at Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Plus, enjoy new where-are-they-now updates on these unsung heroes of the videotape era and exclusive footage from Joe and Nick's courtroom depositions for the Chop & Steele lawsuit.

MATSUMOTO TRIBE

Confident that he’s the next great Japanese thespian, Matsumoto Fighter and his manager roam the streets of Shibuya to promote him. When he finds out that up-andcoming indie director Matsunaga Daishi is holding auditions for his latest film, Matsumoto pulls out all the stops to get in. Director Ninomiya Ken began this project as a Borat-esque mockumentary about the desperate measures aspiring actors take to break into show business. But when Fighter and his manager push the limits of their unsuspecting prey a little too far, fiction and reality begin to overlap in disturbing and surprisingly violent ways. Will Fighter finally get his big break, or will his dreams come crumbling down?

Blood Effects

"Blood Effects" a mockumentary by film maker Kris Black, is a cross between "Paranormal Activity" and Christopher Guest's "Best in Show". Presented as a "movie-within-a-movie", veteran Bruce Reisman produced Black's scathing satire of Hollywood horror movies, where reality ties itself up with fantasy, and the results are both humorous and horrifying.

The Watermelon Woman

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

Kaptin Boom

Toy Vlog Hunt

Just a regular toy vlogger stalking the aisles of your local store as usual, beware.

The Bigfoot Diaries

With a rash of recent Sasquatch sightings in the white mountains of New Hampshire, senior resident Dusty Miller takes it upon himself to unleash 'Operation Nail Bigfoot', a five man expedition team determined to capture video footage, collect hair samples, and search for footprints left by the elusive primate. But as the team soon realizes hunting for Bigfoot isn't everything it's cracked up to be! As things fall apart fast Dusty desperately tries to keep the team together without losing his own mind in the process.

Jaret's 2022 Halloween Special

In October of 2022, two student filmmakers and a viral YouTube and Tik Tok sensation disappeared in the woods near Harrisville RI. This footage was found at the scene.

Jumbotron

After getting on the "dance cam" at a professional sporting event, Drew quickly loses his mind along with his sense of reality.

Bad Ben 7: The Haunted Highway

On the first night of his new job as a driver for the DROPUOFF service, jaded paranormal investigator Tom Riley can’t seem to shake his past, encountering several strange clients over the course of one fateful Halloween.

A Film for Friends

A disillusioned man is filming his farewell letter before committing suicide.

White Meat: Appetizer

What if enslaved people came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people?

Better Than Andy - The Crazy Finn is Here

Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.

Content

Shown through phones, laptops, & webcams, a seemingly polite director stalks and blackmails his actors into living a real-life horror movie.

Hasta que la boda nos separe

Daniel and Maria are about to get married and have a modern wedding on the beach in mind. But their families have other plans for the celebration.

America's Deadliest Home Video

A man videotaping his road trip is taken hostage by three criminals and forced to tape their crime spree, including robberies and murder.

To Be Continued

The short video "influencer" Leopard, who is determined to become popular, faces the dual dilemma of company bankruptcy and payment of compensation. Partners, Gouzi and Monkey, also propose to break up their partnership. The three brothers came to the thriller crew for a special invitation to secretly shoot, intending to do well in the "last vote". Unexpectedly, they captured an exclusive scene of an accident involving the female lead in the production team. The three brothers improvised and continued to secretly shoot, but they didn't expect a series of screams and sharp smiles to intensify.

PT: Urban Legend

Two Social Media influencers are dieing to try the new RED NIGHT challenge. Will they be successful or will they end up a victim of social insecurity?

The Bare Wench Project

Four sorority girls -- Nikki, Chloe, Lori, and Toni -- head out to the mountains to find out the truth about the local legend of the Bare Wench. It isn't long before the gals get lost, run out of food, and begin succumbing to the fear that they're doomed.

And on the 7th Day, God Rocked

A mockumentary about a Christan Battle of the Bands.

Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more.

The Roast of Tom Brady

Offensive lines. Full-contact comedy. Kevin Hart hosts this all-star roast of NFL legend Tom Brady.

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon

Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.

Driver's Ed

A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.

Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.

The Stöned Age

Determined to avoid another night of driving aimlessly around Torrance in the Blue Torpedo, Joe and Hubbs set out on a quest for fine chicks. Their paths soon cross with Tack, from whom they learn about a pair of foreign radical chicks hanging out near the Frankie Avalon place. Over Joe's objections, Hubbs worms Tack out of the deal, and the pair take a slow ride toward their destiny.

2 Minutes of Fame

An up-and-coming stand-up comic moves to L.A. to pursue a film career after video clips of his act make him an online sensation.

George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya!

It's Bad For Ya, Carlin's Emmy nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture.

Me Time

With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.

Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs

In a rowdy stand-up set, Shane Gillis riffs on his girlfriend's Navy SEAL ex, touring George Washington's house and being bullied by an Australian Goth.

Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years

In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.

Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer

Jimmy Carr refutes the idea that you can't joke about anything these days with his edgy takes on gun control, religion, cancel culture and consent.

Mac & Devin Go to High School

A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.

Seriously Single

While her free-living bestie urges her to embrace singlehood, a commitment-craving social media expert can't stop following the life of a former love.

Babes

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

Chris Rock: Selective Outrage

Chris Rock delivers an electric stand-up set on non-racist yoga pants, spoiling his kids, the Kardashians and his thoughts on the Will Smith fiasco.

The Wedding Year

A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.

Clear History

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.