Past Featuresd Films

Monkey Junction (NARRATIVE, 34 minutes, 31 seconds)
Dave Monahan

Shawna mops pizza-puke and runs kiddy rides for minimum wage at Monkey Junction—an experience that was bad enough before she figured out she's pregnant. Now she's supposed to get some freak out of the plastic tubes before the day's birthday parties begin. Ern's little daughter is dead and it's pretty much his fault. He can't face himself, his wife, or any of the rest of the world right now. That big tube playground at the amusement park seemed like the perfect plastic womb when he crawled inside; but now there's this snotty teenager yelling at him to get out. Dave Monahan's narrative is an engaging tale of how Shawna and Ern must meet in the middle ground of Monkey Junction .

Filmmaker Profile:  DAVE MONAHAN

Dave Monahan teaches screenwriting and film production at the University ofNorth Carolina at Wilmington. His previous movie, PRIME TIME, won Columbia University's New Line Cinema Award for Most Original Film. ANGELS WATCHING OVER ME, his first film, was a New York region finalist for the student academy award. Before coming to North Carolina, he taught film studies, screenwriting and production at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, Hunter College, and New York University.