Andrew Patterson

sweet.

Andrew Patterson's The Rivals of Amaziah King.

One of my most anticipated movies of the summer.

It...

Yeah.

It went, it went to a f- Like, uh, I had a, so, uh, like to tease a future episode, my, my, uh, friend and, uh, like terrific film critic, uh, Nadine Whitney, has, uh, provided me an interview she did with the director, Andrew Patterson, um, who, um, uh, who came to Australia for the Melbourne F- Film Festival last year to show Amzar.

And that's where she met him, and he introduced the film.

And they said it was, like, completely raucous and rapturous reception at the fest, and it just never came out in theaters.

Which is kind of a mouthful of a title Um, but it is a film that debuted at South by Southwest last year, but just had a, a limited theatrical release a couple months ago, and is on premium VOD now.

It is by Andrew Patterson.

It's his second film.

His first film was The Vast of Night-

We, we have a very smart board of banjo.

Uh, uh, our banjo director is, uh, very smart.

And every year, this room gets a little bit smaller because we keep adding-

Yes

... more members.

But behind you, you can see some of our greats, uh, that have been inducted here, from Don Vappie, who's an amazing four-string player, to Sonny Osborne, who I mentioned.

Our executive director even got inducted-

Oh, wow

and Amziah is spelled A-M-Z-I-A-H.

The Rivals of Amziah King is a 2025 American neo-Western black comedy film, written and directed by Andrew Patterson, according to Wikipedia, and produced by Black Bear Pictures and Hay Day Films.

It stars Matthew McConaughey, Kurt Russell, hello, Angelina Lookingglass, amazing, Scott Shepard, Rob Morgan, and Tony Revolori.

They continue to say here it had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Festival on March 10, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 14, 2026.