The official trailer for David Farrier's film Tickled has been released ahead of its New Zealand premiere at Auckland's Civic Theatre next month.
Tickled starts as an investigation into competitive endurance tickling, but as Farrier faces fierce resistance on his quest for answers, he and co-director Dylan Reeve head to the USA in an attempt to get to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
The film premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival to generally positive reviews before heading to the Berlin Film Festival and the True/False Film Festival.
"The story of Tickled is a story that seems to keep on giving," says Farrier.
"Since screening at Sundance all sorts of strange things have happened including police removing two people from a screening in Missouri because they were apparently private detectives trying to record the film. It's strange to think that all this stemmed from a simple request for an interview about a strange sport called competitive endurance tickling."
Following its New Zealand Film Festival Autumn Events Series screenings in Auckland and Wellington, Tickled will be released in cinemas nationwide on May 26.
Watch the trailer.
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