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WE’RE FUNK’D
When a crime boss’s empire is threatened by a group of misfits, the city streets of Atlanta become a playground for real monsters in an intersecting tale of violence, morality, transformation, horror and funk. A love letter to 1970s cinema, We’re Funk’d captures the gritty, cinematic aesthetic of the grindhouse and horror sub-genres of the time, highlighting the subversive nature of these genres that was often overshadowed by problematic themes and stereotypes.
Vanessa Ionta Wright
Vanessa Ionta Wright is an Atlanta based filmmaker. She has written & directed several short films including a fully authorized Stephen King adaptation. Her work has been featured in competitions such as the inaugural American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest judged by Francis Ford Coppola, ScreenCraft, Diverse Voices, Shriekfest, Hollyshorts,and Toronto Vanguard to name a few. Vanessa graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Video Production & Film before heading to Los Angeles where she got her start working on music videos as a production assistant. She eventually moved to Atlanta and worked for a commercial production company as an APOC. In 2002, she penned her second feature screenplay, a reimagining of Friday the 13th, and landed herself a face to face meeting with New Line Cinema, reinforcing her belief that with enough hard work, anything is possible.
Vanessa is a lifelong fan of cinema, especially the horror genre. She grew up watching The Twilight Zone and films by Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter and Stephen Spielberg. But, it was a 1992 screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs that inspired her to pursue filmmaking as a career.
She enjoys punctuality, scary movies, a quick wit, sandwiches, the music of Michael Jackson, Halloween & Bacon Jam. She does not enjoy bugs, clowns, perpetual lateness, mean people, oppression, laziness, running more than 3 miles or curved walls.
Tony Reames
Tony is an award-winning writer & director, whose body of work includes short films, music videos and commercials. He has worked with artists like Eric Roberts, Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder, Linnea Quigley, Busta Rhymes, Redman, Arrested Development and Tribe Called Quest, just to name a few. His work has screened on all major networks, as well as film festivals around the world, including London's prestigious FrightFest, Nightmares, Morbido, MonsterFest and countless others. Tony's father was an avid fan of cinema and began Tony's film education at the tender age of nine, introducing him to the cult classics Plan 9 From Outer Space and Motel Hell. Tony was instantly hooked and his passion for film was ignited.
Jenna Kanell
As an action actor, Jenna Kanell has performed while riding motorcycles, stunt driving cars, airborne in harnesses, underwater, with weapons, and in countless fight scenes. She's appeared in shows (including Marvel’s “WandaVision”), and films (including the cult horror hit "Terrifier,” and Universal's "Renfield" starring Nicolas Cage). After Jenna delivered a TEDx Talk on the experience of filmmaking alongside her neurodivergent brother, she went on to write and produce features, and wrote and directed numerous award-winning short projects. These include "Trap Door In The Sun," which just premiered at Vancouver Horror Show, and "Bliss Is Orange," which after a successful festival run landed on Gunpowder and Sky's DUST platform and has since garnered nearly 100k views. She is proudest of teaching her cat to high five.
Christopher G. Moore
Christopher G. Moore is an award-winning filmmaker from North Carolina known for his short films Backward Creep, Gut Punched, Knob Goblins, Disengaged and Foodie. His love for movies and filmmaking came from watching the original Star Wars movies as a kid and being interested in how those films were made. He became enamored with the horror genre by renting every horror movie that dropped on the video rental store shelves back in the 80s as well as by reading about gore effects and horror filmmakers in the pages of Fangoria magazine. The films Evil Dead 2, The Thing, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Silence of the Lambs are a huge inspiration for him as a filmmaker. In 2003 he won $5000 for 3rd place in a nationwide KFC commercial contest. In 2008 he got into his first film festival, the All-American Film Festival, with his John Woo action parody, Hard Stapled. The film ended up winning Best Short Comedy. His award-winning film Foodie was mentioned in a 2012 New Yorker article on cannibal movies. He was co-writer on the hit series Mario Warfare for the YouTube channel Beat Down Boogie. All the episodes together have compiled over 103 million views so far. Outside of filmmaking and screenwriting, he's also a co-host on the Gruesome Magazine podcasts Horror News Radio and Heroes and Droids and he sometimes can be seen on film panels or cosplaying at conventions like Dragon Con.