For Your Consideration: Hundreds of Beavers For Year End Lists and Awards Categories
Following Critical Acclaim and Sold Out Shows on North American Theatrical Tour
Recent Reviews:
"You’d do well to satisfy your craving for knockabout lunacy by checking out Hundreds of Beavers, as visionary as any indie in many a moon, and a dam site (ahem) more fun." -- Los Angeles Times
"Every moment is lovingly crafted, every joke is precise. Rarely since the early days of cinema worshipped by Cheslik and Tews has such love, care, and attention gone into such preposterous buffoonery." -- The Wee Review
"A marvel of slapstick invention that in terms of pure unbridled creativity puts most big-screen comedies to shame." -- The Daily Beast
"What gives Hundreds Of Beavers its special quality is the mixture of no-budget, seemingly haphazard gonzo energy and the well-tooled jokes that can only come from rigorous planning and effervescent ingenuity." -- Time Out
"Part Guy Maddin, part Chuck Jones -- a constant delight." -- Alonso Duralde
"It’s an absolute riot, one that may come with a low price tag but manages to deliver some utterly genius slapstick with the limited resources that it has, which also makes it one of the most unlikely success stories in recent comedy history." -- Film Feeder
Hundreds of Beavers is currently available across all digital & VOD platforms. The self-distributed theatrical run began in January 2024 across the United States and Canada and continued through the April digital debut. Hundreds of Beavers has continued screening all year in response to audience demand, returning to multiple cities for repeat engagements.
An encore theatrical tour will launch in December, followed by the debut of a 35mm print in select theaters. A special edition Blu-ray release will bow before 2025.
Confirmed December theatrical markets include, but are not limited to: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco, Austin, Las Vegas, Miami, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee.
Reuniting the team that brought Lake Michigan Monster to audiences in 2019, Hundreds of Beavers stars Ryland Brickson Cole Tews as the intrepid hero of this frostbitten inventive epic, co-written by Tews and Mike Cheslik making his feature directorial debut.
Hundreds of Beavers made its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in 2022 and has gone on to critical and audience acclaim as a return to physical comedy and a real life 8-bit video game, Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Hundreds of Beavers earned critical acclaim at festivals around the globe, including Fantaspoa, the Fantasia International Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, Popcorn Frights, the Sydney Underground Film Festival and FilmQuest.
The filmmakers have taken home a number of awards including Best Narrative Feature at the Kansas City Film Festival International, the Oxford Film Festival, the Capital City Film Festival, and the Wyoming International Film Festival. Cheslik took home Best Director at Wyoming and the Phoenix Film Festival, as well as Best Comedy Feature at Midwest Weirdfest. At Mexico City's Morbido Film Festival, Hundreds of Beavers won the coveted Bronze Skull Award. Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival awarded the film the Bronze Audience Award for Best International Feature.
With no major offers from distributors, the filmmakers decided to self-release the film, led by producer Kurt Ravenwood, starting with the "Great Lakes Roadshow" in early 2024: a 14- day tour of the Midwest which sold out most screens, including a 700+ audience at the Music Box in Chicago. The show hearkened back to early vaudeville, with Mike Cheslik roasting the audience and the movie's star/producer/co-writer Ryland Tews body-slamming beavers. The New York Times picked up the story, and from there Hundreds of Beavers became an unexpected cult hit in cinemas across the country, earning new fans and rave reviews along the way.
The filmmakers partnered with FilmHub for transactional video on demand via Amazon and Apple beginning in April 2024. They also brokered a partnership with Fandor for subscription streaming. A special edition Blu-ray with hours of bonus features will be released before the end of 2024.
Synopsis: In the early 1800’s, Jean Kayak, a drunken applejack salesman, finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and forest creatures - all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes – Kayak develops increasingly complex traps in order to win the hand of a mischievous lover. When he discovers that the Beavers have formed their own secret society, he must infiltrate their lair to uncover their secrets and win the day.
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