Special Screening July 17
MSP Film Society, Minnesota Fringe, and Sleeper Cell Films presents the 2021 MSPIFF Audience Choice Winner Hollywood Fringe, a dark comedy about acting, life, and fringe festivals – starring former-Minnesotan Justin Kirk, and produced, written and directed by Minnesota filmmakers Megan Huber and Wyatt McDill. The film also features the music of local favorites John Munson (The New Standards, Semisonic) and Lucy Michelle.
Ticket includes 6pm reception at Pracna, 7:30 film, & talk back with filmmakers.
About the Film
Hollywood Fringe is the story (told in the form of a play) of down-on-their-luck, 40-something, Hollywood non-power couple, Samantha and Travis Sunstrom (Jennifer Prediger, Justin Kirk). Samantha and Travis's long-suffering pet project, "Rainbow Farm" - about young idealists bent on improving the world - has finally been green-lit, but only on the condition that a younger actress takes Samantha's role! This schism seriously strains Samantha and Travis's professional relationship, and their personal one too. As Travis watches "Rainbow Farm" become a hollowed out caricature of their original concept, Samantha decides to revisit a whacked-out experimental theater piece from her youth, called "The Alien Play." On the fringes of Hollywood, everyone's still trying to find their role in life.