THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

FRYDOC, the Fryup Documentary Film Festival, awards its annual Purple Wolf for the best short documentary made within, or inspired by, parish boundaries. Fryup: where truth is stranger than fiction.

SHORTLIST:

…NOW FUCK OFF: Uses interviews and found footage to tell the story of the ill-fated US tour by Fryup band the Punk Pirates, which lasted just two minutes before they were arrested and deported. (60 mins)

TRUE BLUE: Follows a day in the life of a Fryup woman who has spent the last two decades going about her business whilst painted and dressed as a smurf (30 mins)

LITTLE KINGDOM: A group of midgets set sail for the remote Fryup island of Alviss, with an ambitious plan to proclaim it the world’s first Diminutive Republic. (60 mins)

FIRE IN YOUR EYES: Charts attempts by locals and visitors alike to conquer the world’s hottest curry, the Frindaloo, at the Fryup Mahal. (24 mins)

FINDING LEVI: As curators prepare the first exhibition of his work, Finding Levi recounts the life of Levi Presley, who left behind hundreds of Polaroids and unprocessed negatives of his friends’ escapades in the Fryup forest when he died in 1996 at the age of just twenty-two. (58 mins)

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