Kayfabe
Cast & Crew
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Director
Michael Raven -
Director
Michael Scullly -
Director
Pete Smith -
Producer
Michael Raven -
Producer
Michael Scullly
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Wendy Thompson
Erin Boyes -
Steve Justice
Michael Roselli -
The Rocket
Pete Smith -
Cam Cunningham
Robert Parent -
Marco Pain
Travis Watters
Synopsis
Genre: Comedy
Over the last several decades, for 20 bucks a night in front of crowds of less than 100, the 'stars' of the Tri-Cities International Championship Wrestling Federation (TCICWF) have been trying to make it to the big time by performing their own campy brand of sports entertainment. In the process, they have inadvertently offended just about everybody in town.And now that the TCICWF is shutting down forever, these colorful, eccentric, clueless, indie wrestlers have one last chance to show the world that they belong in the big leagues.
Latest Updates
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Kayfabe: When wrestling meets Arrested Development
Published on: June 3, 2009
By RANJAN CHHIBBER, Ph.D - SLAM! Wrestling
Ever since Darren Aronofsky's Golden Globe winning The Wrestler, production companies have been rushing to capitalize upon new fiction film and TV projects focusing upon the world of professional wrestling. Some may aim to simply ride off its coat-tails and produce hard-hitting dramas about it, but whether they can achieve the status of Aronofsky's instant classic remains to be seen.
Producers should look no further than a mockumentary about the world of professional wrestling that is a completely unique take on this choreographed sport -- and was filmed and released before Aronofsky's flick. Kayfabe, written and directed by Pete Smith, Michael Raven, and Michael Scully, seems to begin as a typical, yet-another-documentary-on-wrestling, and ends as a film that stays with the viewer for a while because of its low-key wit and cinematic style that shatters its generic form. Focusing upon a fictional indy wrestling company called the TCICWF, we see the trials and tribulations of its less than famous performers who are wrestling their last matches, thanks to an impending bankruptcy. Eerily prescient of the current economic recession, the film will resonate with anyone whose companies or businesses are in the same state.
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Kayfabe airing on Super Channel
Published on: February 12, 2008
Kayfabe will be screening on Super Channel throughout the month of March.
Check the listings to make sure you don't miss it!
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Kayfabe picks up Best Audience Award
Published on: October 9, 2007
Screening this past Saturday at the Eugene International Film Festival Kayfabe co-won the Best Audience Award, sharing the prize with 'Last Stop for Paul'. This is the third award Kayfabe has picked up on the festival circuit after winning 'Best Mockumentary' and 'Best Comedy' at the Lakedance International Film Festival. For more information on the Eugene International Film Festival, click here.
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