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The Found Footage Festival Celebrates Five Years

By Veronica Murtagh in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 3, 2009 10:20PM

If you've never made it to one of The Found Footage Festival's nationwide annual tour stops, then rally your friends and mark your calendars for Friday, December 18 when the festival of unearthed VHS oddities and hilarity stops through Lakeshore Theater for two showings in celebration of the fest's 5th Anniversary. Co-hosts and founders, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett collaborated with comedians David Cross, David Wain and Kumail Nanjiani for this year's program and if the clip above doesn't sell you on The Found Footage Festival, then you probably need to lighten up.

The Found Footage Festival, Friday, December 18, at Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N Broadway, 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $12