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222 E Superior St
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
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Block #3
Our second day of programming begins with a two hour screening block at Zeitgeist.
The Tall Bike Joust The Tall Bike Joust

The Tall Bike Joust

Slightly misguided (but up for anything) people from various walks of life meet in a craft brewery's parking lot to joust on bicycles of double the normal height, raise money for a nonprofit bicycle shop that focuses on urban transportation equity, and to joyously celebrate life in all of its absurdity.

Uniquely blending documentary and scripted elements, this very real tournament is presented by hosts from a SportsCenter-esque studio as though it is a live event of international significance—like the Super Bowl or World Cup—and the jousters hyped as the superheroes they so clearly are.

THE TALL BIKE JOUST originally served as a pilot for SMART PEOPLE BEING STUPID—an unscripted TV/ web series traveling the nation to find intelligent and successful people who engage in random, silly, and seemingly pointless events the general public does not even know exists. But, given the success of this pilot and of the underground sport of tall bicycle jousting, this project also now serves as a pilot for THE TALL BIKE JOUST WORLD CUP—an arced series following five jousters from the pilot as they earn points in tall bicycle jousting tournaments across the southeast and strive to be crowned the year-end champion.
18 minutes
Ruby Ruby

Ruby

When Ruby's father is murdered, her aunt trains her as an assassin to avenge his death.
8 minutes
Frozen Frights: Sweep. Frozen Frights: Sweep.

Frozen Frights: Sweep.

A detective interviews an accident victim who claims his car accident was caused by the ghosts of his grandmother and her lover who stared at him as he drove away.
40 minutes
It's Not You It's Not You

It's Not You

Breaking up is hard to do...with your BFF. Lexi Jones is on a mission to find a new best friend after breaking up with her toxic best friend of 20 years. In her search, she meets a bevy of interesting characters which makes Lexi wonder, if she made the right choice.
5 minutes
Kith & Kin Kith & Kin

Kith & Kin

When the Dumont sisters receive the phone call from their mother, telling them to come home, they can never imagine the darkness that awaits. Upon return, the seemingly innocent family reunion takes a sudden, dark turn as their loyalty and love for one another is put to the ultimate test. Each dealing in their own ways, they must inevitably decide what they are willing to sacrifice for kin.
15 minutes
Doomed To Repeat Doomed To Repeat

Doomed To Repeat

Doomed To Repeat is an actual-play podcast that builds an improvisational horror story using the Ennie award-winning tabletop roleplaying game, Delta Green.

The story centers around six "agents" working for the secret US government conspiracy known as Delta Green. For nearly a century this conspiracy has sacrificed countless agents to fight against very real unnatural horrors. These Eldritch truths must be kept hidden from the world at all costs.

However, when your organization's motto is "Scientia Mors Est" (knowledge is death) the bookkeeping can get messy and the unnatural is never truly understood.

That is, until our agents are assigned by their case officer to a new project known as operational PERENNIAL. The objective is simple; piece together the sordid history of their organization in order to better understand the vectors they face and how to stop them. After all, if we can't learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it.

The submission provided is episode 1 of arc 1 in which the agents investigate a recently deceased retired agent who may hold clues that can help their operation. It is a good example of the strong sound design, the compelling interplay between players, and ratcheting tension consistent throughout the entire show.

Doomed To Repeat has recently completed a second arc and due to popular demand, a third arc is in the works.
150 minutes
How to Hack Birth Control How to Hack Birth Control

How to Hack Birth Control

Pilot Synopsis

‘How to Hack Birth Control’ is a 3-segment pilot of the satire series 'How to Hack' by Sassy Mohen. The pilot focuses on how to navigate and take charge in today’s contraception universe. Told through the sharp wit and perky charm of the narrator Ruth (Xanthe Paige), Birth Control takes a run at ‘not supposed to talk about,’ scenarios and answers all of the questions women truly want to know but are taught to be too afraid to ask.

Filled with tongue-in-cheek graphics and special effects, musical numbers and game shows, each memorable contraceptive milestone is a riotous new discovery. Hailed as, “wickedly funny,” and “charmingly scathing,” by Indie Shorts Magazine, ‘How to Hack Birth Control,’ dishes out invaluable hacks with a merciless sense of humor.

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Season Synopsis

“How to Hack,” looks for optimism within today’s doom and gloom surrounding women’s reproductive rights, dishing out well-researched facts and hacks with merciless humor to help you laugh through the darkness. The episodes take seemingly unrelated characters & circumstances and carefully weave them together to paint a bigger and complete picture. Using sketch comedy, surreal CGI and late-night comedy humor, How to Hack fuses it all together with a sleek modern visual style.

Aiming to shine the cleansing light of satire on today’s challenging topics, ‘How to Hack,’ spotlights everything women were told never to talk about. From birth control, to conception, boobs, infertility and the female orgasm there is no taboo topic ‘How to Hack,’ won’t tear apart and stitch back together with laughter.
27 minutes
Detention Adventure, Season 3 Detention Adventure, Season 3

Detention Adventure, Season 3

Season three finds the Detention gang sent to island school; a remote educational camp in the woods of Ontario that may just be the key to their new mystery. With no cell reception, twenty-four-hour supervision and three other schools to compete against, how will they unravel Lawren Harris’ mystery?
14 minutes
Avocado Toast there series SEASON 2 Avocado Toast there series SEASON 2

Avocado Toast there series SEASON 2

With Molly and Elle’s friendship left hanging in question, we start season 2 with Molly in London, England facing both her heartbreak from ‘The One’ and her new endometriosis/adenomyosis diagnoses. Back in Toronto, Elle has found herself a member of “Community”, a retreat where she went to recoup after a nervous breakdown. What was meant to be a 2-week mental health break is now going on 5 months... and the fact that it is definitely a cult is clear to everyone but Elle. Meanwhile, the ambitious Jordan has been juggling the ad agency he and Elle had started on his own. But when a high-stakes client requires him to go retrieve Elle he finds a very different version of his old workaholic/party-girl friend. In the meantime, Molly returns to Toronto and must learn how to ask for help in order to receive the surgery and support that she needs and Elle feels like everyone who ever loved her in the real world has abandoned her, and turns all of her co-dependant tendencies to “Community”. As Molly and Elle navigate their unseen illnesses and their paths continue to diverge, a permanent friendship-breakup seems inevitable... or could their paths to self-discovery bring them back together?
14 minutes
Mid-to-Late Mid-to-Late

Mid-to-Late

A woman hurtling toward a social media-fueled midlife crisis struggles to live up to the expectations of money, marriage, and babies. She drifts to booze and one night stands to avoid facing her age and her mother's deteriorating mental health.
From the mind of Chicago comic Lindsey Shaw.
8 minutes

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