Short // Comedy

Two Wizards, One Staff

Two wizards, a young African-American apprentice and an older white Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, bump into each other while walking their dogs.

Was listening to one of my favorite history podcasts, Timesuck, one day and caught an episode profiling the KKK. The host (Dan Cummins) was working through the “management hierarchy” of the organization, specifically the grand wizard position, and went off on a tangent about the absurdity of calling oneself a wizard unless you can actually cast some goddamn spells. I found myself randomly laughing at that notion and the idea of someone calling one of these people out about it for weeks after the fact. I wrote and produced this film exploring exactly that, and how absurd racism is on the whole, with an aim at coping with it the best way I know how — laughing at the idiocy of it with others.

– Josh Folan

Amazon Prime Video
Year

2020

Release

May 15, 2020 (Minneapolis St. Paul Int'l Film Festival)

Runtime

7 Min

Starring

Vincent Washington, Michael St. Pierre, Miyagi, Bow Wow

Director

Josh Folan

Writer

Josh Folan

Producer

Josh Folan

Festivals

2020 Minneapolis St. Paul Int'l, 2020 Flickers' Rhode Island Int'l (Semi-Finalist), 2020 Kansas Int'l, 2020 SF Indie Shorts (Best U.S. Comedy), 2020 Lake County, 2020 Marina del Rey, 2021 Omaha