Next person biography:
Charles Unger began his filmmaking career at the tender age of 12, when he penned a spec script for the TV Anime series, Battle of the Planets. Six years later, after graduating from New York's La Guardia High School of Music and Art, he had already completed several stop-motion animation films inspired by the original Star Wars Trilogy. His third film, The Rebels Strike Back, was featured in the Star Wars documentary The People Vs. George Lucas.
Charlie followed his dream to southern California, graduating from the USC Film School, and soon entered the Motion Picture Editor's Guild. He worked on over twenty films and TV shows as an editor or assistant editor. Charlie directed his first feature film, Mr. Lucke, in the late nineties, which received incredible exposure due to the instant celebrity of its female star, Jerri Manthey of Survivor 2 fame, who also posed for Playboy. Mr. Lucke was profiled on Entertainment Tonight, and E! News Daily, and Entertainment Weekly praised the "slick" style of the film.
It is now available on Amazon, Snagfilms, and Renderyard/You Tube. Charlie returned to editing while working on his second feature, Come Together, and was the main editor on Shatner in Concert and Farrah's Story. The NBC TV documentary about Farrah Fawcett's fight with cancer was the highest-rated prime-time documentary of 2009.
Indican Pictures distributed Charlie's sexy comedy Come Together on DVD, VOD, iTunes, Amazon, etc. His second feature is also available in foreign territories, such as Australia, Germany, the UK, Indonesia, Israel, and Thailand. It was chosen as a Platinum Reel Award Winner at The Nevada Film Festival and received a Silver Ace Award Winner from the Las Vegas Film Festival. The script was selected as a finalist in the Latino Screenplay Competition.
Since then, Charlie has written several more screenplays and directed over twenty music videos and short films. For the past several years, Charlie has been working with his wife Paula on their animated franchise called The Punky Pets. They were official sponsors of the Vans Warped Tour and have exhibited at Comic-con. Their latest animated short, Playing Party Politics, premiered at the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
In addition to making films, Charlie has taught filmmaking at over six colleges and Universities, including SMU, National University, and Mt. San Antonio College. Charlie recently edited a TV Pilot Sitcom, Hostel Chicago, and is now in post-production on his third feature film, My Apocalyptic Thanksgiving. The indie drama follows a Zombie-obsessed, special needs adult, who looks for his natural mother.
