Galifianakis comedy Visioneers makes festival rounds

The 9-5 grind is not kind to any of us, but it's probably hardest on George Winsterhammerman (played by Zach Galifianakis, profiled in the Sept. issue of Paste), the subject of the new movie Visioneers. He faces the familiar drags of long hours at work and a disillusioned family at home, but also a less common problem: spontaneous combustion.

His co-workers, it seems, are blowing up from stress, and since he appears on his way to a similar fate, his time to work through his existential crisis could be running out. We told you about the movie in its infancy, but recently it was announced that Visioneers (a true indie flick that still lacks a distributor) will screen at the Atlantic, Woodstock and Austin film festivals in the fall. The movie’s hopes for commercial attention have grown a little brighter.

“Rather than bite the big one and put on suits, we started writing a script about what might happen to us if we did in fact bite the big one and put on suits,” Jared and Brandon Drake, the brothers behind the movie, wrote on The Huffington Post. “The result of our efforts was the screenplay for Visioneers, which is why the story is so personal to us.”

The modest comedy's dark spin on the familiar bored-at-work genre of indie films has already won over audiences at CineVegas and the Seattle International Film Festival, and with its new gigs, beginning at the Atlantic Film Festival next month, its exposure keeps growing. The Atlantic fest, based in Nova Scotia, will screen the movie Sept. 12, and tickets are on sale now. In the meantime, close your office door and enjoy the trailer below: