There’s a handful of unique filmmakers who are proud to call Portland their home: Gus Van Sant, Todd Haynes, and Kelly Reichardt, to name a few. Now the Rose City can add another name to this illustrious list: Skweezy Jibbs, known for his viral persona and stunts, with his pandemic-era efforts to secure two weeks’ worth of Wendy’s chicken nuggets for free being one of the most well known.

His feature debut, Skweezy Jibbs Makes a Movie , sold out its Nov. 1 premiere at the Hollywood Theatre in six hours. Due to popular demand, the meta movie will show in Ashland, Salem, Seattle and Vancouver, Wash. The showing at Kiggins Theatre on Nov. 19 is also sold out, as is the Clinton Street Theater’s showing on Nov. 28.

For the uninitiated, Skweezy Jibbs is the comedic persona of Tim Savage. A

See Full Page