Found Footage Festival

Found Footage Festival is a touring film-comedy event that presents odd, hilarious, and obscure VHS tapes and other found videos, curated from thrift stores, garage sales, and archives across North America. Hosted by comedians Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, the festival combines live commentary, storytelling, and themed video segments into a structured show that plays at independent cinemas, theaters, festivals, and occasional special events. This is not a traditional high school festival with a formal application process or student competition component; rather, high school students typically participate as audience members when the show comes to a nearby venue, sometimes as part of a film, media, or comedy club outing (subject to local age restrictions and content suitability). The primary benefits for students interested in film and media are exposure to archival and found-footage culture, an example of how curation and editing can create narrative and comedy, and inspiration for creative projects that repurpose existing media in original ways.