DREW FRIEDMAN: VERMEER OF THE BORSCHT BELT
$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Aero Theatre | Panel discussion with artist and illustrator Drew Friedman, filmmaker Kevin Dougherty, screenwriter Scott Alexander, actor Steven Weber, comedian/podcaster Dana Gould, cartoonist KAZ, film historian Leonard Maltin, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff and author Merrill Markoe. Moderated by Larry Karaszewski.
Book signing with Drew Friedman for his book, Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy, prior to the screening at 6:30pm at the Aero Theatre, in partnership with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop.
- RELEASED IN: 2024
- DIRECTED BY: Kevin Dougherty
ABOUT THE FILM:
For years, artist Drew Friedman has chronicled a strange, alternate universe populated by forgotten Hollywood stars, old Jewish comedians and liver-spotted elevator operators. DREW FRIEDMAN: VERMEER OF THE BORSCHT BELT is an in-depth documentary tracing artist Friedman’s evolution from underground comics to the cover of The New Yorker. The film, directed by Kevin Dougherty, features interviews with Friedman’s friends and colleagues, including Gilbert Gottfried, Patton Oswalt, Richard Kind, Mike Judge, KAZ, Leonard Maltin, Marc Maron, Merrill Markoe, R. Crumb and many others.
FORMAT: DCP
