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SUMMER SKUNK SCREENING: The King of Kong (Skunk Room)

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Event Hosted by David Farrier!

Director: Seth Gordon | Run Time: 79 min. | Release Year: 2007

Starring: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, & Mark Alpiger

Producers: Ed Cunningham & J. Clay Tweel

Named "Video Game Player of the Century" in 1999, Billy Mitchell sets a record score in "Donkey Kong" that many felt would never be broken. In 2003 Steve Wiebe, who has recently lost his job, learns about the record, sets out to beat it and does. So both men embark on a cross-country battle for inclusion in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records as the supreme king of the electronic game.

Trailer here !

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David Farrier is a New Zealand born journalist and documentary maker currently based in LA. In 2023 he released his latest documentary Mister Organ which was a NY Times’ Critic’s Pick. In 2016 he directed the Sundance feature documentary Tickled, and the followup The Tickle King for HBO. In 2018 he executive produced and hosted 8-part doc Netflix series Dark Tourist. Farrier also writes the Webworm newsletter, and hosts the weekly podcast Flightless Bird

*Doors open at 7:30pm, show starts at 8pm*
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