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.
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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