Director Christopher Guest’s new comedy Mascots will debut globally on Netflix on Oct. 13, EW can exclusively reveal. Co-written by Guest and Jim Piddock (Family Tree), the film concerns a group of sports mascots competing to win the “Gold Fluffy” at the annual World Mascot Association Championships.

“The thing that interested me initially was, here you have these people working very hard, some better than others, and yet no one sees them,” says Guest, whose previous directing credits include 1999’s Best in Show and 2003’s A Mighty Wind. “They go home and they think of themselves as performers, but they are invisible.”