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Father to Son
Gary asks his father hardball questions in hopes to share Dad’s wisdom with the world. His father, he finds, has more questions than answers.
In this 8-part interview series, Gary struggles for the attention of his father, who slips into a gambling addiction.
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Nature Hack
With his cameras pawned to cushion his father’s gambling debts, Gary treks into the woods with his Gameboy camera and green hankie to become a park ranger. Along the way, Gary teaches his viewers cool hacks to help them get the most out of nature.
In this 8-part series, Gary faces exhaustion, fever and angry birds, all the while keeping his eyes on the prize. He’s going to become a park ranger.
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The Artist Formerly Known as Lucifer (pilot)
Trapped in the body of a nervous teen, Lucifer discovers the most human remedy for depression: art. He's about to learn he's not very good at it.
The TAFKAL pilot is currently playing in festivals. So far we’ve won Best Series Pilot, Best Indie Filmmaker, and Best Cinematography at Global Film Festival Awards (https://www.gffawards.com/), and are finalists for best series pilot at Oniros Film Awards, Venice Shorts, and Rome Independent Prisma Awards.
Other selections include the Montreal Independent Film Festival, Peak City International Film Festival, the London International Motion Picture Awards, and Out of the Can International Film Festival.
poster design by Alex Wagoner
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Interactive Prom
It's 2020 and Prom is on. For all the high schoolers who couldn't attend their own this year, and for all Internet derelicts to occupy themselves on lonely Saturday nights, Gary is offering an interactive Prom experience with over a hundred short scenarios and 40 possible endings.
Experience Prom like you've never cared to. Go with Gary or browse your options. Can you become Prom King, or will you waste your Prom night in the bathroom?
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Elders React (Parody)
In our nightmare parody of Elders React, lonely host Joey tries to evince emotional reactions out of our strange and uncooperative seniors.
Each of the 9 Elders React videos ramp up in intensity from “Loose Butterscotch” to “Losing Driving Privileges” and “Outliving Their Grandchildren,” as Joey attempts to obtain the ultimate reaction from his 7 begrudging elders.
featuring
Beverly Albertus
Van Barrett
Margie Bingaman
Robin Brecker
Barb Hannevig
Maureen Hobson
Stephen Worcheck
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Gary’s World
An inept vlogger’s search for fame is his undoing.
Meet Gary.
Gary's World is a satirical vlog about a socially inept vlogger named Gary. His devotion to his small audience lead to misadventures around the world where he looks for friends and a place to sleep.
In 2020, I received a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study comedy and hardship around the world, and take Gary and his misadventures from Amsterdam to Melbourne, from Cape Town to Tokyo, Vienna to Barcelona. Because of the covid-19 pandemic, the foundation has granted this year’s fellows a 2-year deferral period during which they can depart for their travels.
Gary also features in many video series and interactive films, such as Interactive Prom, Father to Son, Nature Hack, the Video Game Video Show, Interactive Therapy, and Interactive Wasteland Doctor.
Just for Fun
Gary’s father looks for love in a lonely place: the late 80s.
the Yellow Belly Anthology
An anthology series about nervous people.
Contact me to at TommyCarrollArmstrong@gmail.com to make your directorial entry in the series!
The Video Game Video Show
Gary watches his older brother play video games.
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Kids React
Our nightmare parody of Kids React features lonely host Joey (Liam Worcheck) who tries to elicit reactions and advice from the children.
This 9-part series was produced by Jenna Menapace, Liam Worcheck, and Tommy Armstrong,
Princess Mitchem
featuring
Princess Mitchem
Allie van Pelt
Katelyn Rosandie
David Kennard
Colin Berkey
& Bridie Schwarz
our actors were so convincing that the penultimate episode, Kids React to Cigarettes, was banned from YouTube.
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High Education
Created on a fellowship from Ursinus College, High Education follows Constance Penn (Tommy Armstrong), a neuroscience student with an obsession for homemade study drugs. When he tries a new, unknown ingredient with a set of pills, test subject and humanities student Heidi Wentz (Anika Backelin-Harrison) loses massive sections of her memory. With Constance’s help, Heidi needs to relearn the social conventions of higher education while blending in.
Constance’s professor Sam Doughty (Natalie Sandone) is up for tenure and simultaneously pushed into chairing the department. With an oppressive dean (Robin Brecker) on her neck and a faculty that doesn’t respect her, Doughty must wrangle control of her department, and get to the bottom of Constance’s experiment.
This 16-episode series was filmed on an academic fellowship the summer of 2018 and released in two halves, the autumn of 2019 and the spring of 2020.
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Tune Out
A comedy musical film about depression where college senior Ken starts imagining the people she dislikes breaking into song and dance.
Made with the support of the U-Imagine Center and Will Abele. Tune Out premiered at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, PA.
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Na Hodinu (By the Hour)
A short satire I wrote and assistant directed with a team of students at FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. We shot the film on 16mm and screened it for a panel of professors at FAMU, where it was enjoyed.
