'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
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Lyndsey Marshal
Faith Myers
Chris O'Dowd
Tommy O'Dwyer
Daniela Nardini
Joan Gerard
Stephen Mangan
Sean Sullivan
Lucy Punch
Nicky Romanowski
Raquel Cassidy
Petra Loewenberg
Clive Russell
Brother Mike
Amelia Bullmore
Micheline Menzies
Megan Dodds
Dina
Meredith MacNeill
Mary
Jonah Lotan
Rick
Richard Ayoade
Dwight Swan
Duncan Duff
Gordon Menzies
Matthew Holness
Roger - Lighting Man
Jimmy Chisholm
Radio Producer
Annie Griffin
Director, Writer
Robert Jones
Executive Producer
Caroline Leddy
Executive Producer
Roger Shannon
Executive Producer
Christopher Young
Producer
Atif Ghani
Producer
Danny Cohen
Director of Photography
Jim Sutherland
Original Music Composer
William Webb
Editor
Gill Horn
Costume Design
Tom Sayer
Production Design
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