Gratuity

A disgruntled waiter serves up just desserts to his most bitter customers.

  • EK Scarfone
    Director
  • EK Scarfone
    Writer
  • Wyatt Ott
    Writer
  • Brennan Hinkle
    Writer
  • Brandon Van
    Writer
  • EK Scarfone
    Producer
  • Mia Francoso
    Producer
  • Kimmy Latsch
    Producer
  • Nicky Smit
    Producer
  • Eric Josund-Brady
    Producer
  • Bill Johns
    Key Cast
    Z Nation
  • Robert L. Butler, Jr.
    Key Cast
  • Grace Madland
    Key Cast
  • Elana Manasse-Piha
    Key Cast
  • Seth Manzel
    Key Cast
  • Louise Heather
    Key Cast
  • Khoe Munro Tyner
    Key Cast
  • M Louis Ziob
    Cinematography
  • Mia Francoso
    Special Makeup Effects
  • Eric Josund-Brady
    Special Makeup Effects
  • AlexT.S. Brown
    Sound Design
  • Phil Harmonic
    Sound Design
  • Chelsey Henkes
    Sound Design
  • Maria Jose Felix
    Composers
  • Steven Silvers
    Composers
  • Jarryd Elias
    Composers
  • Matthew Alain Boerner
    Composers
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 11 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 30, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    300 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Blackmagic ProRes
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • 72-Hour Horror Film Race
    Atlanta
    United States
    June 7, 2017
    Premiere
    Best Student Film + Top 15 Finalist
  • The American Horrors Film Festival
    Williams Bay, WI
    United States
    October 27, 2017
Director Biography - EK Scarfone

Writer / Director / Producer, E.K. Scarfone was raised in California. She completed the certificate program in Screenwriting at UCLA Extension in 2001, but had to forsake the dream in order to earn a living. After many years as a Digital Strategist, she returned to the dream, currently halfway through an MFA program in Filmmaking and Producing. She started pursuing film race projects outside of school. After earning a Top 15 Finalist laurel on the 72-Hour Horror Film Race, her team’s film “Gratuity” won “Best Student Film.” A few months later, she directed the award-winning mockumentary, “Nawthwest Bounty Hunters.’ for the 48-Hour Film Project, Seattle (2017).

She is currently in preproduction on three short films, including a Sci-Fi/Horror “creature” film (short). Upcoming projects include a Sci-Fi/Horror feature film and a Sci-Fi TV series.

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Director Statement

Gratuity was originally created for the 72-hour Horror Film Festival in April 2017, where it was a Top 15 Finalist and awarded "Best Student Film." We had 72 hours to write, shoot, edit and submit the film.

Contest rules required three elements to be in the film: a key, the action of answering a phone, and the theme of "vengeance."

Of course, no film will come out perfect in 72 hours, so after the contest we went through post again, this time adding a musical score by students of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, and enhanced sound design/audio by student of Seattle Film Institute.