In the late 2000s , around the time he was directing the short film , '' Marcel the Shell with Shoes On , '' Camp was digging through clips on the user-generated content platform YouTube when he stumbled across over 100 hours of home video footage documenting the life of an unknown American family and uploaded to the internet between 2008 and 2015 . He was initially hesitant to turn it into a documentary because of the effort and time required to cut the footage down to feature length . The film world-premiered at Hot Docs in May 2016 . The premiere was controversial , with arguments breaking out during post-screening Q&A s between the director and members of the audience as well as amongst the audience members themselves . The film has been selected to screen at BAMcinemaFest at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Sheffield International Documentary Festival ( SIDF ) in the United Kingdom
Sheffield International Documentary Festival ( SIDF )
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Fraud (film)