Gratuity – Horror Short Film

Gratuity is going into distribution, and is expected to be streaming on Amazon Video very soon, so look for it!

Gratuity was created, script-to-screen, in one weekend for the 72-Hour Horror Film Race in April, 2017.

For the contest the we were assigned following requirements for the film:
Theme: Vengeance
Prop: Key
Action: Answering a phone

Gratuity was a Top-15 Finalist and winner of “Best Student Film” in the competition. After the film festival premiere, Gratuity went through post production a second time, for ADR, improved sound design, a new original score closer to the character and mood of the piece. The score was created by four 2017 students of Hummie Mann’s Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle.

Since round two of post production,  Gratuity has been circulating at other horror film festivals. So far this year, it has been screened in theaters at: Bleedingham (Runner-up for Best Score, Oct. 2017), Hart D. Fisher’s “The American Horrors” Film Festival, (Finalist, Oct. 2017) The Lost Sanity Film Festival (Nov. 2017), and has been nominated for “Best Humor,” “Best Kill,” and “Best Writing” in the Independent Horror Movie Awards festival (Jan. 2018). Gratuity has also been selected in several online film festivals, such as Frostbite (Finalist, Oct. 2017), Diabolical Horrors, and Spotlight Horror Film Awards (Spotlight Silver Award, Dec. 2017).