Kickstarter: False Profit

~~Pundit~~ Award winning writer and film maker Dan Abrams joins forces with Science Channel’s Josh Zepps and Second City legend Jeff Michalski to film a mockumentary on the causes of the 2008 economic collapse.

Abrams and Zepps are writing with Michalski directing. If ever there was a high percentage chance for funny, this would be it. While I don’t know Abrams and Zepps personally, Jeff Michalski is an amazing director, comedian and friend.

If it looks good to you, please contribute.

And as the world crumbles, everyone is asking one question: “Who’s to blame?” Eugene Kramer was a simple Iowa farm boy who brought his folksy wisdom to Wall Street at an entry-level trading job in 2004. His sunny moral principles propelled him to the top — and unwittingly inspired his fellow bankers to unleash a global economic catastrophe. And that was just the beginning... From the credit crash to the auto bailout, from the Euro crisis to Occupy Wall Street, Eugene Kramer caused it all. And now it’s up to him to fix it.

False Profit is a hilarious satire told in the sober style of an investigative documentary, through talking-head interviews, mocked-up archival footage, re-enactments, and the visceral live action of a day-in-the-life documentary crew trailing this elusive young titan through the corridors of power. Despite its authoritative tone, it’s a gleefully absurdist farce in the mode of Arrested Development and Best in Show.

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Jason Weisberger is Boing Boing's publisher. He often does what he ought, instead of what he should. On instagram and twitter he is @jlw

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Saw that headline and thought this was going to be an article about Kickstarter. BB is all kinds of confusing today.
- http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios
  
  Same here….still trying to get my head around the post from yesterday about someone raising $3.2 MILLION and they are going to give out comic books and T-shirts. WTF?
  - bkad
    
    Likewise. I thought this was going to be about how kickstarter was somehow corrupt or a scam, which while I didn’t expect it I was certainly prepared to believe.
    - http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios
      
      I’m leaning towards scam. While it’s nice to believe that “internet” culture is somehow cooler and better than the big ole scary world where Goldman Sachs lives, it’s the same planet. People are people are people.
Robert Holmen

I often find that people who describe something as “hilarious” are often wrong.
- http://jimbeach.net mindfu
  
  I agree. Louis CK is the only exception to that rule that I’m aware of.
- http://mattdm.org/ Matthew Miller
  
  My guess is the pitch video here sums it up pretty well: if you think the idea of a guy sitting on the toilet pitching a movie idea to his friend who is in the bathtub and then the director pops out of the toilet is _great comedy_, then this is probaby exactly the movie for you.
  - http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair
    
    It all makes sense if you realize why they went in the bathroom in the first place (to sniff cocaine off the toilet lid)
rprivetera

Before haters gotta hate take over the comments, I’ve had the fortune of taking a few classes with Michalski and his Second City cred is well deserved IMO.
L_Mariachi

The False Profit name has long been in use by a San Francisco-based DJ-art-etc collective. They do a psytrance night at Il Pirata on Wednesdays.