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Alex Koll is a San Francisco based Funnyman and Entertainmenter of variable power and speed. In 2009 he performed in the "New Faces" showcase at the prestigious Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, garnering a "Best of New Faces" nod. He appears on Comedy Central's "Live At Gotham" 2009 season, and has also performed at the SXSW, Vancouver, The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF SketchFest and the Bentzen Ball. As a filmmaker, Alex has created award-winning videos for IFC.com, SuperDeluxe.com, Revision3, and Rooftop Comedy. Alex is also the two-time winner of the San Francisco Regional Air Guitar Championship; No kidding. He is currently flightless and unable to lay eggs.

Matt Koff is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer in New York City. nHe is the winner of Time Out NY's 2011 Joke of the Year. He has written for the Onion News Network and Michael Ian Black's WitStream. He co-wrote and co-voiced the webseries, 9 AM Meeting, which won "Best Animated Pilot" at the 2010 New York Television Festival. He has also written for The Newlywed Game on GSN, Onion SportsDome on Comedy Central, "Plot Summary" on Cinemax, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. He recently won an arm-wrestling match against his 8-year-old nephew.

Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that showcases footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Nick Prueher and Joe Picket have been hard at work to compile the oddest and most hilarious videos that are sure to put you in the mood for love.

Molly Knefel is a stand-up comic, writer, and actor living in Brooklyn. With her brother John, she produces a live show/ web series called John and Molly Get Along. It can be found on Youtube and has been featured in the New York Times, the Apiary, and Punchline Magazine. Molly and her brother are co-hosts on Radio Dispatch, a twice-weekly internet radio show. She has performed at the Bell House, Upright Citizens Brigade, the PIT, the Brooklyn Lyceum, and on such alt-comedy mainstays as Comedy As a Second Language and Lasers in the Jungle, and regularly at Le Poisson Rouge in the Village. Her writing and other comedy videos have been featured on Gawker, Jezebel, and Splitsider.

With her throaty vibrato and lushly orchestrated pop songs, Nicole Atkins made her debut in 2006, bringing to mind a blend of Roy Orbison, Loretta Lynn, and Jenny Lewis. She was raised in Neptune, NJ, and relocated to North Carolina during her late teens to study illustration at UNC Charlotte. After befriending members of the Avett Brothers and logging several years with the alt-country band Los Parasols, Atkins briefly returned to the tri-state area, where a series of open-mike performances in Manhattan's East Village helped her hone a sound that was more indebted to pop music than her work with Los Parasols.
Atkins spent the following years traveling between North Carolina and the Northeast, eventually settling in New Jersey at her parents' house. Performances in New York City helped her attract attention from several local musicians, and Atkins began piecing together a backing band comprised of guitarist Dave Hollinghurst, bassist John Flaughter, drummer Dan Mintzer, and keyboardist Daniel Chen. Operating under the name Nicole Atkins & the Sea, the band secured a residency at Piano's -- a popular nightspot in the Lower East Side -- and struck a deal with Columbia Records on the strength of Atkins' demo recordings and impressive performances. Atkins released the Bleeding DiamondsEP in 2006, and the group decamped to Sweden later that year to work on a full-length album. Featuring the songwriter's self-professed "pop-noir" sound, Neptune City arrived in late 2007, followed by an EP of cover material in 2008.

The release of her 2011 album Mondo Amore found Atkins exploring her dark side, drawing upon her recent breakups (from her original label, her original band, and longtime boyfriend Paul Ritchie) and a love of '60s psychedelic rock for fuel.