Charles B. Unger

The filmmaking career of Charles Unger began at age 12 when he wrote a spec script for the TV Anime series Battle of the Planets Six years later by the time he graduated as a Fine Art major from New York Citys prestigious La Guardia High School of Music and Art Charlie had completed several stopmotion animation films Charlie graduated from USCs School of CinemaTelevision in the early nineties and was accepted into the Motion Picture Editors Guild shortly afterwards For the next few years he worked on several union features while writing screenplays In the late nineties Charlie wrote and directed a low budget 80minute feature film Mr Lucke Charlies first feature received incredible exposure due to the instant celebrity of its female star Jerri Manthey of Survivor 2 fame who also had posed for Playboy Mr Lucke was profiled on Entertainment Tonight and E News Daily Entertainment Weekly reviewed it and praised the slick style of the film Mr Lucke screened at IFPs 2001 Feature Film Market in NYC and is currently available at Amazoncom for online distribution Later that same year Charlie moved to Texas and taught film production and digital film editing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Rediscovering film and teaching inspired Charlie to write a dramatic comedy about college students for his next project Charlies fifth screenplay Come Together was selected as a FINALIST in the Latino Screenplay Competition While Charlie was finishing postproduction on Come Together he edited Farrahs Story The NBC TV documentary about Farrah Fawcetts fight with cancer was the highestrated primetime documentary of 2009 In November of 2009 Come Together was chosen as a PLATINUM REEL AWARD WINNER at The Nevada Film Festival In June of 2010 Come Together was chosen as a SILVER ACE AWARD WIINNER at the Las Vegas Film Festival On July 20th of 2010 Indican Pictures will release Come Together on DVD Recently Charlie has written two more screenplays and directed The Punky Pets International Icon a short animation film that he and his wife and producing partner Paula are using to launch a TV series