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Sunflower Hour

Year 2011
Runtime 90 mins
Language English
North American Premiere

Director/Writer Aaron Houston in Attendance!

Don’t believe the children’s television industry has a dark side? It’s time to wake up and smell the sesame. As Aaron Houston’s mockumentary SUNFLOWER HOUR gleefully shows, it takes a certain sort to spend their day with their hand up a puppet’s backside – and they’re probably not the type you want spending time with your kids.

In Houston’s raunchy comedy, four contestants are vying for a spot on a popular children’s program. There’s Leslie (Edmonton’s Patrick Gilmore), the cheerfully homophobic and deeply closeted son of a minister; the conspicuously Irish Shamus (Ben Cotton); nihilistic teenager Satan’s Spawn (Kacey Rohl); and David, who seems well-adjusted considering his family’s less-than-supportive approach to his puppeteering. With only one position open, these four misfits will go to great lengths to prove they’re cut from the right felt.

A THIS IS SPINAL TAP for the SESAME STREET set, SUNFLOWER HOUR – produced by Calgary ex-pat Aisla Webster – comes across like BEING ELMO’s evil twin. Deliciously tasteless and consistently hilarious, it’ll change the way you see the wholesome world of kid’s shows forever.

Countries

Canada
Festivals
Karlovy Vary 2011
Director
Aaron Houston
Producer
Aaron Houston, Aisla Webster
Screenwriter
Aaron Houston
Cinematographer
Steve Deneault
Editor
Greg Ng
Cast
Patrick Gilmore
Amitai Marmorstein
Ben Cotton