Our friends at Laughing Squid have shared filmmaker Steve Bustin's new documentary on SantaCon, tracing how a small San Francisco art prank snowballed into an international, booze-fueled holiday ritual.

The documentary, which was was directed by Seth Porges of Class Action Park and How To Rob a Bank, takes the audience back the early days of Santacon with footage by Scott Beale (Portland 1996, Los Angeles 1997 and New York City 1998), Chuck Cirino (San Francisco 1995 and Los Angeles 1997), Harrod Blank (New York City 1998) and others who were there from the very beginning.

The documentary also features interviews with the event's founder Rob Schmidt, Laughing Squid partner John Law, Marci MacFarlane, Chuck Palahniuk, and the late, greatly missed Chris Radcliffe, as well as many others in

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