Between headaches at home and the needy men at her job, a bartender thinks there isn’t much else that could muck up her day… and she’s very, very wrong.
Maisie has just about had it with mothering all the men in her personal life, and the dynamic at her bartending job isn’t much better. Today, all that pent-up frustration is going to make a mess of things. Welcome to Gunk, a scathing, visceral, and super fun indictment of the state of gender politics — with plenty of goopy practical effects to go along with it.
It’s going to be a goopy, gunky riot…with your help! Contribute to our production so we bring Gunk to the world!
If you do decide to contribute, please mark it with the note “GUNK” so we know to thank you in the credits!
Maisie has just about had it with mothering all the men in her personal life, and the dynamic at her bartending job isn’t much better. Today, all that pent-up frustration is going to make a mess of things. Welcome to Gunk, a scathing, visceral, and super fun indictment of the state of gender politics — with plenty of goopy practical effects to go along with it.
It’s going to be a goopy, gunky riot…with your help! Contribute to our production so we bring Gunk to the world!
If you do decide to contribute, please mark it with the note “GUNK” so we know to thank you in the credits!
ABOUT GUNK
Gunk was born out of two disparate feelings: first, a love of body horror from The Blob to The Fly to The Substance. Second, a dread about the regressive forces in contemporary culture that threaten to drag all of us backwards, starting with women.
My debut short, Howard, premiered at this year’s L.A. International Shorts Festival and continues to be screened on the festival circuit. In addition to getting plenty of positive attention from viewers, it was also a blast to make. When my partner and producer Heeseung Kim started toying with a story idea about a woman performing at work while dealing with a crisis, we both immediately got excited about bringing it to life alongside our friend and co-producer Cleo Handler.
My debut short, Howard, premiered at this year’s L.A. International Shorts Festival and continues to be screened on the festival circuit. In addition to getting plenty of positive attention from viewers, it was also a blast to make. When my partner and producer Heeseung Kim started toying with a story idea about a woman performing at work while dealing with a crisis, we both immediately got excited about bringing it to life alongside our friend and co-producer Cleo Handler.
THE CAST
MALIN BARR AS MAISIE
Malin is a Swedish actor, writer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her recent credits include Darkstar Pictures feature Honeydew (Tribeca 2021), Vanishing Angles' The Beta Test (Tribeca 2021), Netflix miniseries The Playlist, and Netflix comedy series Bad Thoughts. |
WOODY FU AS WALT
Woody is an actor and writer based in Los Angeles. He was featured as a New Face of Comedy by Just For Laughs. You may have seen him on ABC, CBS, FX, Max, HULU, Comedy Central, Peacock, and Netflix, sharing the screen with Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Awkwafina, Roy Wood Jr., Molly Shannon, Lisa Kudrow, Amy Schumer, Jack Quaid, and Jon Heder. Coming up, you can see Woody in Vince Gilligan’s highly anticipated AppleTV+ sci-fi series, and recurring in the Amazon show The Runarounds. |
ADDITIONAL CAST: THE MEN
Luis Alarcón, Noah Langer, Austin Bernhardt, Nick Ciarelli, Eric Dargis, Gustav Gavenas, Jay Dockendorf, Michael Hrinishin, & Jarad Kopciak
THE CREW
Writer & Director: Austin Bernhardt
Producers: Heeseung Kim & Cleo Handler
Cinematographer: Nina Ham
1st AD: Katia Koziara
Assistant Camera: Hannah Carpenter
Gaffer: Ryan Alva
Grip: Luis Alarcón
Production Sound Mixer: Bryce Paul Stephens
Key Makeup Artist: Arlene Yvonne Martinez-Black Heart Blood
Makeup Artist: April Fiske
Makeup Artist Assistant: Abigail Qahhat
Production Assistants: Emmy Gyori, Stevie Palmateer, & Michael Hrinishin
Producers: Heeseung Kim & Cleo Handler
Cinematographer: Nina Ham
1st AD: Katia Koziara
Assistant Camera: Hannah Carpenter
Gaffer: Ryan Alva
Grip: Luis Alarcón
Production Sound Mixer: Bryce Paul Stephens
Key Makeup Artist: Arlene Yvonne Martinez-Black Heart Blood
Makeup Artist: April Fiske
Makeup Artist Assistant: Abigail Qahhat
Production Assistants: Emmy Gyori, Stevie Palmateer, & Michael Hrinishin
BEHIND THE SCENES
BTS photography by Luis Alarcón
THANK YOU
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