Not A Tad Bad Flim Co: how do you sum it all up?

Not A Tad Bad (NATB) is a group of friends from the South Shore of Massachusetts, hailing from Kingston and Pembroke. The troupe has managed to produce dozens of short movies as well as feature-length projects, affectionately called flims.

Starting in the latter days of their high school years, NATB was spearheaded by Kevin James & Joe Botsch along with their desire to make inane, larger than life humor. Along with Mike Eidlin, TJ O’Brien, Brendan Killion, Ché Salazar, Paul Butler, and countless others, the band of friends collaborated on making spoofs of movie conventions and cliches ranging from fighting off the undead to winning the war against the machines. Countless conversations would end with one joke stemming into the plot of the next epic to be made.

The team also touched on the themes of friendship and camaraderie, often giving a distant subtext to a lot of their face-value stories. The fruit of the flim making labor came two fold for the most part- with each movie finished there was a premier to be had. This was how Flim Fest was born, an annual gala showcasing off Not A Tad Bad’s best work (or whatever they had laying around on DVD). Many afternoons would be spent conversing over the next party and movie, plotting out the most finite of details, despite the projection screen often being a bedsheet. After years of showcasing their movies Flim Fest opened its arms to other local film makers, becoming much more than a party in someone’s back yard. The movie making community on the South Shore now had an identity and a venue. Flim Fest has grown in breadth & variety of content every year since, adopting more and more artists across a great deal of mediums including music, animations, photography, and more.

Not A Tad Bad Flim Co. serves as an example of what friends can do when they work together, with the team’s good humor and spirit apparent in every field of every frame of video they’ve shot. The flims were started during a time where all of the guys were discovering a lot about themselves, and the movies continued during that journey. Each movie can be seen as a silly shlock fest for most, but they also serve as a testament of the dog days of high school and college time wasted with friends alike.

Flim: it’s supposed to be spelled that way.