2025 Sarasota Film Festival
André Is an Idiot
Documentary Feature
Screenings
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Saturday, April 12 at 1:00 PM EDT
Ends 2:30 PM EDT
📍New College of Florida/Sainer Pavilion
About This Screening
PLEASE NOTE A DATE/TIME CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT - IT'S LISTED ON 4/8 IN THE FILM GUIDE BUT IS NOW on 4/12.
About this film
André is a brilliant idiot who is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor. After all, if he’s going to die, he reckons, he’s going to enjoy dying as much as he possibly can.This intimate, offbeat portrait follows the three years Ricciardi, an innovative, out-of-the-box advertising creative director, spent living with colonic cancer: both a candid treatment diary and a fresh, close-up character study of an unusual personality colored by his peculiar and unyielding look at life.
In Documentary Competition
US Documentary Audience Award Winner, Sundance Film Festival
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award Winner US Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
Credits
- Director
- Tony Benna
- Producer
- André Ricciardi, Tory Tunnell, Joshua Altman, Stelio Kitrilakis, Ben Cotner
- Executive Producer
- Jessica Harrop, Nicole Stott, Emily Osborne, Marissa Torres Ericson, Joby Harold, Lee Einhorn, Greg Boustead
- Co-Producer
- Bud Johnston
- Cinematographer
- Ethan Indorf
- Editor
- Tony Benna, Parker Laramie
- Cast
- André Ricciardi
Premiere: Florida
