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Please join FilmBuff at the Tribeca Cinemas for an event screening of The Dungeon Masters. Producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte will lead a Q&A following the screening.

An evil drow elf is displaced by Hurricane Katrina. A sanitation worker lures friends into a “Sphere of Annihilation.” A failed super-villain starts a cable-access show involving ninjas, puppets and a cooking segment. These are the characters, real and imagined, of Keven McAlester’s documentary The Dungeon Masters. Against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the storied role-playing game, and its various descendants.

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FilmBuff Fact: Director Keven McAlester's previous documentary was the Independent Spirit Award-nominated feature, You're Gonna Miss Me.

FilmBuff Fact: The film's poster won a special jury prize at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival, the first time such a prize was ever awarded.

FilmBuff Fact: The NYC post-punk trio, Blonde Redhead, composed the film's soundtrack, generating buzz amongst New Yorkers for the screening.