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 City's prestigious La Guardia High School 

of Music and Art, Charlie had completed several stop-motion animation 

films. Charlie graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in the 

early nineties, and was accepted into the Motion Picture Editor's 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, 80-minute feature film, Mr. Lucke.

 Charlie's 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 IFP's 2001

 Feature Film Market in NYC and is currently available at Amazon.com,

 for on-line 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

  Charlie's fifth screenplay; Come Together was selected as a FINALIST in the Latino Screenplay Competition.

 While Charlie was finishing post-production on Come Together, he edited

 Farrah's Story. The NBC TV documentary about Farrah Fawcett's fight 

with cancer was the highest-rated prime-time 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.