Promotional clip from the short film CI: A TEDD Talkumentary
LOGLINE
Real-life entrepreneur Michael Fertik plays a tech startup superstar attempting to top his past success with a masterful TEDD Talk, recorded for posterity by a documentary film crew in this satirical rockumentary short.
SYNOPSIS
Michael Fertik plays "Michael Fertik," a Silicon Valley start-up superstar attempting to top his past success with a game-changing TEDD Talk, recorded for posterity by a documentary film crew. Fertik’s revelatory TEDD talk explains the concept of CI or counterintuition, a simple trick that promises to help anyone unleash their inner innovator and disrupt their conventional lives. Fertik’s stupefying talk is interwoven with intimate, Errol Morris-style interviews of Fertik and his real-life investors, David Cowan and Mike Maples, and remote interviews with fans attending TEDD’s annual once in a lifetime event.
FILM STILLS
FILM FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Premiere
Napa Valley Film Festival
Napa, CA
Best Lounge Short
Best Shorts Online
Web Awards
Award of Excellence
New York Comedy Short Film Festival
New York, NY
New York Premiere
Chicago Comedy Film Festival
Chicago, IL
Midwestern Premiere
DC Independent Film Festival
Washington, D.C.
D.C. Premiere
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
Best Comedic Shorts
Cincinnati Film Festival
Cincinnati, OH
Ohio Premiere
New Hampshire Film Festival
Portsmouth, NH
New England Premiere
Top Shorts
Online festival
Special Screening
Hudson Valley Comedy Festival
Saugerties, NY
Toronto Film Week
Toronto, Canada
Canadian Premiere
Venice Film Week
Venice , Italy
Italian Premiere
Tenerife International Film Awards - Berlin
Berlin , Germany
German Premiere
Nominated - Festival Jury Prize, Nominated - Best Comedy Short
Soo Film Festival
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Upper Peninsula Premiere
Maverick Movie Awards
Online Awards
Nominated Best Screenplay - Short Film