Festival (The)
- Director: Phil Price
- Writer: Phil Price; Myles Hainsworth; Brandon Milbradt
- Producer: Brandon Milbradt
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A verité-satire, The Festival is an ensemble comedy, told from the perspective of fictional IFC documentarian, Cookie. Cookie's subject: Rufus Marquez, a quixotic young director embarking on his virgin voyage to the prestigious Mountain United Film Festival (MUFF.) The Film is The Unreasonable Truth of Butterflies. The goal is a distribution deal. And the pressure is on. Rufus - unprepared for the excess of schmoozing activities - maneuvers an assortment of pretentious filmmakers, salivating distributors and smile-for-the-camera festival VIPs. The problem is, no one has seen his film - and the more no one sees it, the hotter the buzz becomes. As her bosses close in, Cookie loses her objectivity and Rufus loses his film - literally - as his masterpiece goes missing.
No trailer...there was a trailer but it has since disappeared!
Cast & Characters
Nicolas Wright as Rufus Marquez;
Miranda Handford as Cookie Armstrong;
James A. Woods as Lance Rawly;
Sarah Carlsen as Gigi Wallace;
Rob deLeeuw as Vic Morgenstein;
Jean Nicolai as Sandy Jackson;
David Pryde as Marshall Stack III;
Trevor Hayes as Tony Russ;
Linda Smith as Judy Macon;
Anatoly Zinoviev as Vladimir Petrovitch