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Darkon
Darkon
	Promotional poster for Darkon
Directed by	Luke Meyer,; Andrew Neel
Produced by	Tom Davis,; Ethan Palmer,; Christopher Kikis,; Thoma Kikis,; Nicholas Levis,; Cherise Wolas,; Alan Zelenetz
Starring	Skip Lipman,; Daniel McCarthur,; Rebecca Thurmond,; Kenyon Wells,; Andrew Mattingly
Cinematography	Karl F. Schroder,; Hillary Spera
Edited by	Brad Turner
Music by	Jonah Rapino
Distributed by	Independent Film Channel (TV)
Release date	2006
Running time	89 Minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

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Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers. The film was directed by Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer.

A LARPer, from the feature documentary, Darkon.

Darkon premiered and won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 2006 South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Darkon is an official selection playing at Hot Docs, Maryland Film Festival, Silverdocs, LA Film Festival, Britdoc and Melbourne International Film Festival.

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 The film was produced by [[Ovie Entertainment]] and [[SeeThink Productions]].
-The strangest type of black comedy, the desire to laugh at the people featured in the movie fades quickly, and the desire to pity them takes over. The documentary focuses on a group of socially mal-adjusted misfits who use the world of pretend as an escape from their self-described tedious, boring, or otherwise miserable lives.
-It cleverly points out how escape through fantasy can only serve to make real life problems worse, as several of the major characters have massive real life problems they ignore in favor or pretending to be someone else.
-The viewer is left not knowing if he should laugh at the over done seriousness put towards a game of pretend, or cry over the sea of isolation, loneliness, and misery that surrounds the major characters.