‘Theater Camp’ Gets Snatched Up at Sundance Film Festival By Searchlight Pictures

Searchlight Pictures has acquired Theater Camp, after it’s Sundance Film Festival showing.

Theater Camp, is the mockumentary-style comedy from Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin. The film is an ensemble comedy, which screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at Sundance. It’s set in an upstate New York theater camp where the eccentric staff is trying to keep the camp afloat with the help of the owner’s crypto-bro son.

Gordon and Lieberman directed the feature, which stars Gordon, Platt, Galvin, Ayo Edebiri, Patti Harrison and Amy Sedaris, among others. you can see a fun interview between the two above, from IMDB’s lounge at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

“The raucous and resounding audience reception to Theater Camp is a testament to the charm, the wit and the joy of what Molly and Nick and the entire filmmaking team have created,” added Searchlight Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. “We cannot wait to bring this inspiring and hilarious film to audiences in theaters around the world.”