A group of oddball telemarketers sell weird infomercial products as they work the late-night hours of the third shift.
Nestled in the forgotten corner of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper, the dysfunctional employees of Baron Solutions confront issues such as inter-office hookups, performance enhancing brownies, selling explicit adult toys and coffee zombies.
A disgruntled stand-up comedian is brought in to entertain and motivate the sales team, but instead roasts everyone in the vein of Glengarry Glen Ross.
During his interview, a military veteran discovers that Baron Solutions is desperate to hire anyone who's willing to work the third shift.
When the office is out of coffee a zombie apocalypse breaks out.
The Sales Manager Alec holds a sales meeting to instill a hunger for larger sales numbers. But the Armenian restaurateur, Sufjan, has them hungering for something else.
Managers Alec and Ruby have conflicting views over whether or not Alister has performance issues.
The human resources manager, Molly, discovers that some of her employees have been mixing work with play.
Wendel seems to have almost anything for anyone in any situation. Almost.
Ian tries help Alister with his nerves, but maybe Willow's the one who can truly offer him guidance.
Jackson, Alister and the rest of the sales team can't seem to sell some unusual products. Wendel, however, is a natural.
MacKenzie's friend, Nichelle, wants to take her out for a night out on the town. However, several of the guys think they've got everything the girls are looking for right there in front of them.
As creator, writer and producer of Third Shift, John is very proud the film has won many awards for best comedy, best screenwriting, and best acting in the Film Festival Circuit. We were also very honored to be a part of 15 film festivals and counting with accolades for Merit and Excellence. John is currently working on Season 2 of Third Shift along with many other comedy screenplays.
I have always loved workplace comedies (Taxi, NewsRadio, The Office, etc.) and I wanted to make a series exploring an office environment never seen on film.
Third Shift is a short form web series where each episode plays out like a comedy sketch. We cast actors adept at improvisation (mostly Second City graduates) giving them outlines and beats for each episode without writing out every single line of dialogue. This gave rise to a lot of wonderful discoveries on set making it a blast to shoot and a labor of love to edit.
Rich Baker and John Gearries Third Shift Interview at Mammoth Film Festival.
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