Joe Pickett

A half troll half barbarian is shrunk to the size of a rat and thrown into present day just to ruin everyone's life.

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.

Founded in 2004, the Festival originated in Wisconsin and Minnesota by Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher and Geoff Haas, childhood friends from Wisconsin. While still in high school, Pickett and Prueher began collecting videos from garage sales, training videos from odd jobs, and copies of tapes from a video production house. The friends would then play selections from this collection for entertainment at parties. In 2004, Pickett and Prueher quit their day jobs to focus on production of their first feature documentary, Dirty Country. They started the touring Found Footage Festival show to fund the production of the documentary. In addition to its regular touring schedule, the Festival has appeared at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Just For Laughs (the Montreal comedy festival), the New York Comedy Festival, the Impakt Festival in the Netherlands, and the Central Standard Film Festival in Minneapolis, MN. The Festival is currently based out of New York City.

In this memorable show recorded live on Good Friday in Brooklyn, New York, Found Footage Festival hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher serve up an eclectic lineup of obscure promotional tapes, industrial videos and found home movies that were never intended for a mass audience.

This years festival includes a pet care public access show, Linda Blair with some really bad advice for all and of course, more full frontal male nudity.

Join curators Joe and Nick on a guided tour through their ever-growing collection of odd, hilarious, and profoundly stupid videos. This edition of the Found Footage Festival features an entertaining lineup of instructional and educational videos, public access footage, and home movies found at thrift stores and rescued from dumpsters across the country. Recorded live at The Heights Theater in Minnesota, Found Footage Festival: Volume 2 is an unabashed celebration of the footage that time forgot.

In their most unsettling compilation to date, Found Footage Festival curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher present their latest and greatest array of VHS wonders. Didgeridoos will be blown, sponges will be rainbowed, opossums will be massaged, and senior citizens will be fed salad. It's all here! Recorded live at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.

Larry Pierce is a family man and factory worker who lives in Middletown, Indiana with his wife Sandy. Outside of his regular nine-to-five job, Pierce has also been writing and recording raunchy country albums since 1994. After being forced to retire from his job after thirty-one years, the 53-year-old Pierce hooks up with the rock group -itis and performs his first concert in front of a live audience.