The Beaver Trilogy

Name: The Beaver Trilogy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-07-25
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Cast: Sean Penn, Crispin Glover, Richard LeVon Griffiths

<div style="text-align: center;"><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>Join us on Saturday, July 25th at 4pm for one a the strangest, funniest, most moving cult films ever made: The Beaver Trilogy is coming to Festival Theaters FOR FREE! </b></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>This free screening will include a live Q&A with legendary filmmaker Trent Harris, moderated by film critic and scholar Esther Schwartz.</b></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">What begins as a documentary about a small-town Utah talent show transforms into something entirely unique. Inspired by a drag performer known as "Groovin' Gary", Harris revisits the story twice more—first with Sean Penn, then Crispin Glover—creating a singular work about performance, identity, artistic obsession, and the universal desire to be seen.</span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!!</span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Enjoy live drag performances in the lobby before and after the screening!</span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="futura-pt, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Presented by Festival Theaters and the LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert<b> </b></span></font></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/T7Apw2S/TheBeaverTrilogy?source_id=358db5f7-ac3c-48fc-ad9d-8d0155d1e943&source_type=em&c=i0-KbzXjbOConXM9AZ5r0cNEieuW-Kqe2Wm9xFuu_99ysRWWVz0gcA==">Sign Up Here </a></b></div>DocumentaryPT1H23M2026-07-25

Sean Penn

Crispin Glover

Richard LeVon Griffiths

Trent Harris

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