Prankster’s Ink Buzz

American Retail wins Slamdance Screenwriting Competition!

“Slamdance announced the winners of its 2022 screenplay competition, with the grand prize going to writer Gabriel Malasig for his screenplay titled “American Retail.” The screenplay follows a Black woman as she struggles to supplement her music career through a dead-end retail job at a superstore.”

Filmmaker Highlight: Megan Mead

“Winner of Out on Film’s First Screenplay Competition for their script ‘Magpie’, this Q&A goes a little into Pranksters Ink’s upcoming projects.

Meet Trailblazer Megan Mead and Rachel Malasig

“A bit of the origin story of Pranksters Ink, as well as Rachel Malasig and Megan Mead’s beginnings as storytellers.”

Gone Postal screens at Bay Area Transgender Film Festival

“I thoroughly enjoyed filmmaker Roberto Fatal’s ‘Chaac and Yum,’ where a meetup at a queer bar in San Francisco tells the story of a relationship between two Mayan deities; … and Megan Mead’s hilarious and entertaining ‘Gone Postal,’ a comedy wherein a postal worker suspects a person on a route might be the elusive serial killer described in a podcast.”

Let’s Get Absurdly Serious w/ Rachel & Gabriel Malasig

The filmmaking podcast Scratch Claw Push interviewed members of Pranksters Ink, focusing on our origin story, Gabriel’s slamdance winning script American Retail, as well as Rachel’s experience on big budget productions, and how that experience informs who we run our sets.

American Retail gets top 5 in Road Map Writers x HusselUp Competition

“The winner was chosen from a group of five finalists that also included Eric Rudnick (“Hold You so Tight”), Gabriel Malasig (“American Retail”), Jacobo Fe (“Halsted: Between Pleasure and Pain”) and Gina DeAngeles (“The Knocking at the Marsh”).”