Presented by the Twin Cities Film Fest
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Screenings from 11 am - 11 pm // Complete schedule below
$15 Advance General Admission for each Individual Screening
$50 All-Day Pass (includes admission to all six films plus an invitation to an EXCLUSIVE mix & mingle reception with Roger Nygard & other VIPs on Friday, June 24 from 5-7 pm hosted by the Twin Cities Film Fest. Purchase an All-Day Pass and we will send your invitation with all the details!)
Free DVD copy of The Nature of Existence (2010) to the first 400 people through the doors
Come dressed as a Trekkie or Alien and get a free bag of popcorn!
Bring your copies of Nygard’s books Cut to the Monkey and The Truth About Marriage, or movie DVDs and Blu-Rays ready to be autographed! (A limited number will be available for purchase on-site.)
All Ages
Ticket Purchases are Final and Non-Refundable
Join us for a day-long retrospective celebrating the work of acclaimed Hollywood comedy filmmaker Roger Nygard! Enjoy six iconic films, each introduced by Roger Nygard himself. Cosplay is strongly encouraged!
Five of the six films will be presented on 35mm!
Show Schedule & Individual Ticket Links
11 am: High Strung (1992, 35mm, 93 min) // Trailer | Buy Ticket
1 pm: Trekkies (1999, 35mm, 86 min) // Trailer | Buy Ticket
3 pm: Six Days in Roswell (2000, 35mm, 82 min) // Trailer | Buy Ticket
5 pm: The Nature of Existence (2010, 35mm, 94 min) // Trailer | Buy Ticket
7 pm: The Truth About Marriage (2020, DCP, 82 min) // Trailer | Buy Ticket
9 pm: Suckers (2003, 35mm, 87 min) // Trailer | Buy Ticket
An acclaimed Hollywood writer, producer, director and editor — Roger Nygard is perhaps best known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the Universe. His other award-winning films include the car salesman cult-classic Suckers; a profile of UFO fanatics in Six Days in Roswell; the documentary The Nature of Existence, which untangles the world’s philosophies, religions and belief systems; and in an attempt to tackle a subject even more explicable than existence itself, Nygard created The Truth About Marriage. The film was accompanied by a book of the same name, which gets to the bottom of why relationships are so darn hard. Nygard’s first foray into film-making, the cult fave High Strung, features Jim Carrey, Fred Willard, and a cameo appearance by a very young Kirsten Dunst.
Nygard has directed numerous television series including The Office and The Bernie Mac Show. His work as an editor includes Emmy-nominated episodes of Who Is America?, Veep, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
A Minneapolis native, Nygard recently published his second book, Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor’s Behind-The-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies, featuring pearls of wisdom (quips?) from comedy luminaries such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Larry David.
