Summary: Fetish or sport? That’s what New Zealand TV journalist David Farrier wondered when he came across online videos of athletic young men in sports uniforms being tickled. The videos were billed as “Competitive Endurance Tickling.” Farrier reached out to the American video producer Jane O’Brien Media for an interview. They replied with a stream of threatening an homophobic emails. That only intrigued Farrier more. He teamed up with co-director Dylan Reeve to travel to America to investigate who is behind Jane O’Brien Media. Their quest resulted in one of the strangest documentaries of the year, “Tickled.” On this episode of Pure Nonfiction, Farrier and Reeve describe what they learned standing up to a litigious bully. The film is being released in the U.S. by Magnolia Pictures and HBO Documentaries.<br> <br> On Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/davidfarrier" target="_blank">@davidfarrier</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/DylanReeve" target="_blank">@DylanReeve</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/TickledMovie" target="_blank">@TickledMovie</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/thompowers" target="_blank">@thompowers</a><br> <a href="http://tickledmovie.com/" target="_blank">http://tickledmovie.com/</a><br> Pure Nonfiction is sponsored by <a href="http://www.docclub.com/" target="_blank">Sundance Now Doc Club</a>.<br>
