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...
