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Don Verdean is an offbeat comedy written and directed by Jared Hess (Nacho Libre, Napolean Dynamite). The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and stars Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Bibb, Will Forte, and Danny McBride.

Hired by an ambitious small-town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self-proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy from the filmmaking team behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.

“My good friend and one of the producers on this film, Jason Hatfield, turned me on to the world of Biblical archeology,” explains director and co-writer Jared Hess. “He sent me articles and links to videos with some leaders in the field who all had different claims. I thought it was a fascinating and potentially humorous world to have things go wrong in. A lot of these people don’t have the proper academic credentials, but what they do have is passion. They believe very strongly in certain things because of their faith. A lot of them say they know how to locate the Ark of the Covenant or something legendary like that. They just never seem to have any photos or video or any evidence.”

Don Verdean is rated PG.