Festival
2005•18•1h 47m•6.0•Released
DramaComedy
'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
Director
Annie Griffin
Writer
Annie Griffin
Languages
English, Gaelic
Studio
Film4 Productions
Cast
Lyndsey Marshal
Faith Myers
Chris O'Dowd
Tommy O'Dwyer
Daniela Nardini
Joan Gerard
Stephen Mangan
Sean Sullivan
Lucy Punch
Nicky Romanowski
Raquel Cassidy
Petra Loewenberg
Clive Russell
Brother Mike
Amelia Bullmore
Micheline Menzies
Megan Dodds
Dina
Meredith MacNeill
Mary
Jonah Lotan
Rick
Richard Ayoade
Dwight Swan
Duncan Duff
Gordon Menzies
Matthew Holness
Roger - Lighting Man
Jimmy Chisholm
Radio Producer
Production
Company
Film4 Productions
Company
UK Film Council
Producer
Atif Ghani
Producer
Christopher Young
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