The world's cheapest film festival attracts the cheapest filmmakers... and a few geniuses. But will anything be left when the crowds are done SNACKING?

SYNOPSIS:

Perched on a dry lake in historic Bitter Leaf, California, the Raccoon Village Family Resort is a shadow of its former glory. Then in breezes that shaman of showmen JACK HICKS with a lightning tongue and a bizarre proposal to resuscitate Raccoon Village by holding The Bitter Leaf Film Festival (formerly "The Blazing Hills Film Festival" until the fire). The rules: each entry must not have cost more than $500 to film.

Suddenly the cut-rate spa overflows with cut-rate glitterati cutting deals, ducking photogs, and talking big-big- big. Meet LUIS CRISTAL, Eurotrash auteur of the film "Black" which is just that -- no picture, almost no sound. Just black. And MITCHELL STARCH, whose "Abbot and Costello Meet Alien" is sure to be the hit of the festival... as long as he can take care of a few legal matters first such as permission to use "Abbott and Costello" and "Alien" footage. And RUDOLFO FINNINI, whose next project is a Punk-Rasta version of Lewis Carroll's tale entitled "Alice With Attitude."

Meanwhile BRAD, the hapless owner of Raccoon Village, is desperate to steal his pretty Activities Director and now Festival Manager CAROLYN from the slacker-and-stoned clutches of JASON, the official Dude Who Runs The Boat Trips.

So a war for art of sorts is underway. But will anything be left of Raccoon Village once all the geniuses are through snacking?