Ethan Samuel Dunlap

Directing

Ethan Samuel Dunlap

Born

1995-05-01 (31)

Place of birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Ethan Samuel Dunlap is an American independent filmmaker. Born and raised in the South Shore of Massachusetts, Dunlap cut his teeth as a teenager making shorts and no-budget television series while working at SCTV, his hometown's public access TV channel. His first attempt at feature filmmaking was at age 15, when he directed 2011's THOSE GUYS IN THE HALL -- a 60 minute Clerks homage set in his high school. It was only screened for close friends. Still based in New England, Dunlap carved out a niche making regional micro-budget genre films -- shooting his films locally with a regular stable of actors and crew members. His first, 2019's SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND, was an experimental coming-of-age…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

HOP poster
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Brock and Sid used to be pretty good contract killers. Now they're less-good gentleman thieves.

HOP

2019

HOP poster
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Brock and Sid used to be pretty good contract killers. Now they're less-good gentleman thieves.

HOP

2019

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A lost & abandoned feature film by Ethan Samuel Dunlap, who directed it when he was 15. A rough cut was assembled in 2011 and screened to close friends, then shelved permanently when the director deemed it "unwatchable". Plot is believed to be largely a riff on CLERKS but set in a high school.

Those Guys in the Hall

2011

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A lost & abandoned feature film by Ethan Samuel Dunlap, who directed it when he was 15. A rough cut was assembled in 2011 and screened to close friends, then shelved permanently when the director deemed it "unwatchable". Plot is believed to be largely a riff on CLERKS but set in a high school.

Those Guys in the Hall

2011

See You Next Weekend poster
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Seeking one final crack at adolescent glory, Bloom Beesly and his friends walk into what they hope to be the party of the century. What they find is a corpse, a gun, and a very dangerous white bag.

See You Next Weekend

2019

See You Next Weekend poster
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Seeking one final crack at adolescent glory, Bloom Beesly and his friends walk into what they hope to be the party of the century. What they find is a corpse, a gun, and a very dangerous white bag.

See You Next Weekend

2019

Who Goes There? poster
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Two former kid-detectives, now in their late twenties, reunite a decade after their final case ended in tragedy.

Who Goes There?

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Who Goes There? poster
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Two former kid-detectives, now in their late twenties, reunite a decade after their final case ended in tragedy.

Who Goes There?

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A Dime-Sized Hole poster
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An experimental short made out of B-roll footage and nonverbal emotional beats from WHO GOES THERE.

A Dime-Sized Hole

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A Dime-Sized Hole poster
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An experimental short made out of B-roll footage and nonverbal emotional beats from WHO GOES THERE.

A Dime-Sized Hole

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A Beach in New England poster
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29th, 2017: three local teenagers stumble on the aftermath of a grisly crime. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 2017: two people are dead, a boy is in intensive care, and the most notorious narcotics dealer in the South Shore is in custody. 6 YEARS LATER: a novelist, a retired FBI detective, a public-access documentary program, and a survivor try to make sense of it. A director's cut/remix of SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND.

A Beach in New England

2023

A Beach in New England poster
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29th, 2017: three local teenagers stumble on the aftermath of a grisly crime. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 2017: two people are dead, a boy is in intensive care, and the most notorious narcotics dealer in the South Shore is in custody. 6 YEARS LATER: a novelist, a retired FBI detective, a public-access documentary program, and a survivor try to make sense of it. A director's cut/remix of SEE YOU NEXT WEEKEND.

A Beach in New England

2023

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A no-budget student short film directed by high schooler Ethan Dunlap, co-written with star Bobby Whitehouse. Loosely adapted from the Ambrose Bierce story 'The Moonlit Road', Dunlap and Whitehouse proceeded to add a comedic element, slapstick, a chase sequence, an 80s pop soundtrack, and a musical number.

Billy Zabka Saves The Universe

2014

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A no-budget student short film directed by high schooler Ethan Dunlap, co-written with star Bobby Whitehouse. Loosely adapted from the Ambrose Bierce story 'The Moonlit Road', Dunlap and Whitehouse proceeded to add a comedic element, slapstick, a chase sequence, an 80s pop soundtrack, and a musical number.

Billy Zabka Saves The Universe

2014

Goodbye, Old Paint poster
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Three kid detectives leave the sleuth game behind. Until, two days before their high school graduation, they find a body in the woods. The full, uncut, thirty-minute prologue of WHO GOES THERE.

Goodbye, Old Paint

2022

Goodbye, Old Paint poster
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Three kid detectives leave the sleuth game behind. Until, two days before their high school graduation, they find a body in the woods. The full, uncut, thirty-minute prologue of WHO GOES THERE.

Goodbye, Old Paint

2022

Shoot the Moon poster
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In the infancy of the 1960s, a Presidential blunder radically changes the course of the Space Race.

Shoot the Moon

2019

This Film Told Me To. poster
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A charismatic cult leader holds court at a local movie theater.

This Film Told Me To.

2023

This Film Told Me To. poster
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A charismatic cult leader holds court at a local movie theater.

This Film Told Me To.

2023