We’re really happy to present this extremely rare motion picture in Boise. You may have read about this semi-legendary, shot-for-shot re-creation of Raiders of the Lost Ark in Vanity Fair, or seen it mentioned on tv – but copyright laws severely limit the opportunities to actually see the work.

Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolos started shooting their Indy Adventure in 1982 (at the dawn of the video age) when they were simply three 12 year-olds from Mississippi – who didn’t have a clue what they were getting themselves into. Their production wrapped in 1989, and was shelved and forgotten until 2003 when Eli (Hostel) Roth screened a bootleg copy in the middle of the night in Austin, Texas. The rest is history.

Their ingenuity is astonishing: watch for the rolling boulder, a submarine, live snakes, the heart-thudding truck sequence, the melting face, the same copy of a 1936 Life magazine that was used in the original, and everywhere flames, flames and more flames. They did a few inventive substitutions: puppy for monkey, boat for plane – but they did get access to a submarine! What makes it all the more amazing is that there was no reference copy of the original for the kids to watch. Eventually they obtained an audiotape of the film, and based their adaptation on the audio and their memories of the film. This is a truly inspirational film. Bring the kids!