I, Curmudgeon is a 2004 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Alan Zweig

Alan Zweig

Alan Zweig is a Toronto documentary filmmaker known for often using film to explore his own life.In his 2000 film Vinyl, Zweig explores what drives people to become record collectors...

 about curmudgeons, himself included.

Self-declared curmudgeons interviewed in the film also include Harvey Pekar

Harvey Pekar

Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...

, Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz

-Life:Born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey, Lebowitz is best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...

, Mark Eitzel

Mark Eitzel

Mark Eitzel is a musician, best known as a songwriter and lead singer of the San Francisco band American Music Club.-History:Eitzel spent his formative years in a military family living in Okinawa, Taiwan, Ohio and the United Kingdom. He moved to America in 1979.He started making music while he was...

, Cintra Wilson

Cintra Wilson

Cintra Wilson is an American writer, performer and cultural critic. Declared as "the Dorothy Parker of the cyber age", she is best known for her commentary on popular culture which is often humorous and irreverent in tone. She currently contributes to the New York Times for its "" series and is...

, Bruce La Bruce, Andy Rooney and Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson

Scott Thompson is a Canadian television actor and comedian, best known for his time as a member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.-Personal life:...

.

The film was shot with a camcorder

Camcorder

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, with Zweig using a mirror to record his own experiences.

Film festivals

The film was selected to the 2004 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and received a Silver Hugo at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

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. It also received an honorary mention at the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival

Brooklyn Underground Film Festival

The Brooklyn Underground Film Festival was an annual showcase of typically low-budget, under-distributed or amateur videos and metavideos. The festival was initially held in DUMBO, Brooklyn and later moved to Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The festival ran from 2002-2007.The...

, in 2005.