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    Interview…’Supercon’ Director Zak Knutson on Celebrity and the Limits of Comedy

    Fil​​mmaker, documentarian, and pop-culture aficionado, Zak Knutson’s newest endeavor is the convention-based comedy, Supercon. It’s a movie featuring four less-than-famous personalities who, so fed up with the titular convention’s greedy promoters, attempt to emulate a robbery perpetrated (successfully) by other geekcentric convention goers. Let’s just hope lighting can strike twice, for their sake. Knutsen co-wrote and directs the feature, and easily draws on his deep knowledge of fan culture (and can claim being good friends with Kevin Smith for more than a decade). As such, this was right up his alley. Enjoy the highlights of our time with Zak. GoSeeTalk: The film starts off with the text, “based on a…