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Found Footage Festival Promo

After a brief lull in November, Portland is turning up the kick drum once again on the holiday events season. The FoundFootage festival is coming to town this weekend and co-hosted Joe Pickett of The Onion and Nick Prueher of Late Show with David Letterman. It should be a good way to spend the weekend. If you go, tell us what Blanch is doing with all those cats. See our full Portland events list here.

Message from Nick Prueher:

We've got a star-studded cast of funny people who helped us out with the show this year (David Cross, David Wain, Kumail Nanjiani), plus the greatest lineup of found videos we've ever assembled.

Found Footage Festival Press Release:

The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will make its triumphant return to Portland in December with a brand-new show.

Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, whose credits include The Onion and the Late Show with David Letterman, are excited to present their never-before-seen lineup of found video clips and live comedy in four big shows at the Laurelhurst Theater on Dec. 4th & 5th (7 & 9:30 p.m. both nights). Tickets are $10 and are available at the box office.

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event showcasing videos found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country.  Curators Pickett and 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 celebration of all things found.

Among the new clips to be featured in the 2009-2010 program:

-A collection of the worst Saturday morning cartoons ever to turn up on VHS
-Highlights from a 1987 video dating reel found by David Cross
-A home movie from a forgettable heavy metal festival in suburban Washington, D.C.
-A brand-new compilation of exercise videos featuring Dolph Lundgren, Milton Berle, and WWF's The Bushwhackers

The Found Footage Festival was founded in New York in 2004 and has gone on to sell out hundreds of shows across the U.S. and Canada, including the HBO Comedy Festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. The festival has been featured on National Public Radio, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and G4 TV's Attack of the Show, and has been named a critic's pick in dozens of publications, including The Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Chicago Tribune.