Independent Film Studio · Est. 2021
Strange, handmade films from New York's Capital Region — carried from a small town to festival screens and the Chinese Theatre.
The Slate
Every Monkey Business film is built the same way — locally, stubbornly, with the people next door — and sent out into the world to be seen.
Stephen King · Dollar Baby
After a near-fatal accident, a soon-to-be father becomes certain his childhood nightmare has come back for his family — a cursed, cymbal-clapping toy monkey.
Best Dramatic Short
A renowned illusionist debuts a trick that cannot be explained — and a government agent becomes obsessed with proving it's fake.
Played the Chinese Theatre
Las Hadas de la Sombra
To make her children finish their dinner, a mother spins a folktale about the creature that comes in the night for whatever is left behind — a small lie that grows teeth.
The Studio & Its Founder
Monkey Business Endeavors is an independent film studio in Saratoga Springs, in New York's Capital Region. Since 2021 it has made films the hand-built way — local cast, local crew, real places — proving that festival-caliber work doesn't have to come from Los Angeles.
“Filmmaking is a collaborative art.”
— Spencer Sherry
The studio is the work of Spencer Sherry — a writer, director, producer and editor who got his start by becoming the first person Stephen King ever authorized to adapt The Monkey. What began as a single horror film has grown into a small, restless body of work that swings from cursed-toy dread to Spanish-language fable.
Beyond his own films, Sherry is president of the 518 Film Network and a community outreach and grants coordinator at Saratoga Arts, where much of his energy goes to pulling other local filmmakers up alongside him. He treats the whole endeavor as art first, business second — and it shows.
Recognition
Selections & Awards
In the Press
04 · Connect
Programming a festival, writing about the films, or looking to make something together in the Capital Region? The door's open.
