Limo Ride (2016)
Indecency. Intoxication. Possession. Trespassing. Kidnapping. Assault.
Welcome in the New Year with the greatest bar story ever told.
After hiring a last minute limousine service, a rag-tag bunch of hard partiers embark on their New Year's tradition – running naked into the Gulf of Mexico – only to find themselves 24 hours later kidnapped, stripped, stranded, and left for dead. A fast-paced visual feature narrated by the ten Southern raconteurs who actually lived it takes you on a hilarious ride about getting lost, getting found and getting hammered along the way.
Production Notes
2016 / USA / Feature Length / Color
From audio interviews they conducted with the original participants, Gideon Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater cut a “radio edit” of the full story, incorporating the region’s tradition of field recording oral histories. Using this as narration, they then storyboarded and created animatics for the entire film.
With these assets they raised independent financing and set out with a budget in the five-figure range, executing 3 separate one-week shoots over the course of 3 months with dozens of cast, crew, and over 200 extras to recreate the crimes at their original scenes.
The resulting collision of memory and recreation captures the participants' knack for exaggeration and discovers insightful contradictions, all while building a modern myth that falls not just into the South’s tradition of oral history, but into the mythological traditions of any barroom, any campfire, any time, everywhere.
Besides handling all aspects of the production from start to finish, they successfully crowdfunded the resources needed to independently distribute the film, embarking on a fundraising and promotional tour of Alabama bars and breweries in the film’s original limousine.
The finished film played over a dozen film festivals both in the U.S. and abroad, earning numerous awards, screened theatrically in over 30 cities nationwide and was made available to rent, buy or stream through iTunes, Amazon, VHX, as well as on DVD and Blu-Ray.
