Joe Pickett

Joe Pickett

Starting out as a writer on several late night talk shows, Joe Pickett is now most well known for his Found Footage Festival shows.

Movies for Joe Pickett...

A Life on the Farm
Title: A Life on the Farm
Character: Self
Released: May 25, 2023
Type: Movie
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
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Chop & Steele
Title: Chop & Steele
Character: Self
Released: June 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Follows childhood friends turned professional comedians, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, the founders of the Found Footage Festival. When Nick and Joe book their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks go viral and land them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate. The stress of the lawsuit and pressure to continue their pranks threatens their livelihood and tests their lifelong friendship.
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Found Footage Festival: Holiday Party
Title: Found Footage Festival: Holiday Party
Character: Host
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Joe and Nick from the Found Footage Festival dredge up their all-time greatest holiday hits on VHS in this yuletide celebration.
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The Found Footage Festival: After Dark
Title: The Found Footage Festival: After Dark
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Big news for perverts! Found Footage Festival: After Dark features some of the naughtiest, most unsettling footage we've turned up in our 30 years of collecting, Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, this is a show we hope our parents don't see. You, however, are welcome to give it a whirl!
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Found Footage Festival Volume 9
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 9
Character: Joe Pickett
Released: October 29, 2019
Type: Movie
The FFF celebrates its 15th anniversary with an all-new melange of delightfully awkward VHS footage salvaged from thrift stores by hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher. Regional pre-teen beauty pageants, big-budget Vietnamese karaoke videos, altar boy training tapes, a home movie labelled "bonion sergery," and Pudgie Wudgie the Wondercat all get their place in the sun. Plus, for the first time, Joe and Nick tell the definitive story behind their local morning news prank journey, including the humiliating footage from their legal depositions after getting sued in federal court. It's a cringe-worthy celebration you won't want to miss. Recorded live at The North Door in Austin, TX.
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Found Footage Festival: Cherished Gems
Title: Found Footage Festival: Cherished Gems
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
From nose-picking news anchors to piano-playing rabbits, from accident-prone factory workers to speedo-wearing dancers, from rentable friends to butt campers, this sparking collection of Found Footage Festival's most cherished VHS finds has it all! Recorded live at Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Plus, enjoy new where-are-they-now updates on these unsung heroes of the videotape era and exclusive footage from Joe and Nick's courtroom depositions for the Chop & Steele lawsuit.
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Strange Men
Title: Strange Men
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Joe and Nick are proud to present a new series called Buried Treasures, a guided tour through the VHS finds they've deemed too weird to include in their live show along with hand-picked deep cuts from the Found Footage Festival archives. This first volume, Strange Men, includes dozens of video clips, each with a strange man doing a strange thing. One man jumps around his living room. Another man interviews cheerleaders. There's even a man with a ponytail! There are so many strange men crammed in this collection, you'll think you're at an O.T.B.
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VHS Revolution
Title: VHS Revolution
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
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The Found Footage Festival #8: Brooklyn
Title: The Found Footage Festival #8: Brooklyn
Released: July 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher return with an eighth installment of VHS relics they’ve salvaged from thrift stores, garage sales and garbage cans across the country. Found Footage Festival: Volume 8 highlights include a collection of satanic panic videos from the 80s, a star-studded Desert Storm parade sponsored by Taco Bell, outtakes and on-air bloopers from over ten years of North Dakota local news, and selections from David Letterman's Video Collection, inherited by the Found Footage Festival when Dave retired. Recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn.
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Found Footage Festival Volume 8: Live in Brooklyn
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 8: Live in Brooklyn
Character: Self
Released: March 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher return with an eighth installment of VHS relics they’ve salvaged from thrift stores, garage sales and garbage cans across the country. Found Footage Festival: Volume 8 highlights include a collection of satanic panic videos from the 80s, a star-studded Desert Storm parade sponsored by Taco Bell, outtakes and on-air bloopers from over ten years of North Dakota local news, and selections from David Letterman's Video Collection, inherited by the Found Footage Festival when Dave retired. Recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn.
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The Found Footage Festival #7: Asheville
Title: The Found Footage Festival #7: Asheville
Released: June 17, 2014
Type: Movie
This special 10th anniversary edition of the Found Footage Festival finds curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher in a nostalgic mood, delving deeper--perhaps too deep--into some of their favorite VHS finds from over years. But Volume 7 is also jam packed with newly unearthed treasures, featuring singing rabbis, petulant news anchors, coughing snake handlers, bodybuilding clowns, and two body parts never before seen in the festival! It's a celebration of a decade of Found. Record over and you'll die! Taped live at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Found Footage Festival Volume 7: Live in Asheville
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 7: Live in Asheville
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
This special 10th anniversary edition of the Found Footage Festival finds curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher in a nostalgic mood, delving deeper--perhaps too deep--into some of their favorite VHS finds from over years. But Volume 7 is also jam packed with newly unearthed treasures, featuring singing rabbis, petulant news anchors, coughing snake handlers, bodybuilding clowns, and two body parts never before seen in the festival! It's a celebration of a decade of Found. Record over and you'll die! Taped live at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Found Footage Festival Volume 6: Live in Chicago
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 6: Live in Chicago
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Found Footage Festival Volume 5: Live in Milwaukee
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 5: Live in Milwaukee
Character: Host
Released: December 12, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Winnebago Man
Title: Winnebago Man
Character: Self
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".
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Found Footage Festival Volume 4: Live in Tucson
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 4: Live in Tucson
Character: Host
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Found Footage Festival Volume 3: Live in San Francisco
Title: Found Footage Festival Volume 3: Live in San Francisco
Character: Host
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher present an all-new collection of unintentionally hilarious videos found at thrift stores and garage sales across the country. From pool hustlers to public access TV weirdos, from exercising celebrities to toilet training cats, Found Footage Festival: Volume 3 puts them all on display in a loving tribute to the golden age of VHS. Recorded live at the Red Vic Movie House in San Francisco.
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The Found Footage Festival Volume 2: Live in Minneapolis
Title: The Found Footage Festival Volume 2: Live in Minneapolis
Character: Self - Host
Released: December 6, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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The Found Footage Festival: Volume 2
Title: The Found Footage Festival: Volume 2
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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The Found Footage Festival: Volume 1
Title: The Found Footage Festival: Volume 1
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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 line-up of obscure promotional tapes, industrial videos and found home movies that were never intended for a mass audience.
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The Found Footage Festival Volume 1: Live in Brooklyn
Title: The Found Footage Festival Volume 1: Live in Brooklyn
Character: Host
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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.