ABOUT MOOKPARK
FOUNDER - Blair Franklin
Blair Franklin is a Los Angeles-based producer, writer-director, and the founder of Mookpark Entertainment. Over the past two decades, he has built a production career spanning independent film, commercials, music videos, and unscripted television, contributing to series including Orange County Choppers for CMT, Top Shot for History Channel, Cesar Millan’s Dog Nation for National Geographic, Naked & Afraid for Discovery Channel, and Catfish: The TV Show for MTV.
A graduate of UC Santa Barbara’s film studies program, Blair’s work as a filmmaker focuses on psychological horror, dark thrillers, and character-driven genre storytelling. His short films explore tension, vulnerability, obsession, and the darker impulses that shape human behavior.
His early work includes a contemporary adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, created as his senior thesis film at UCSB and reimagined through the lens of social anxiety and mental health.
In San Francisco, he wrote and directed the noir short , A Kiss for Friday, examining the consequences of gendered misjudgment and underestimation. In Los Angeles, he later created the horror short, Forever, a supernatural story centered on intrusion, fear, and emotional vulnerability.
Through Mookpark Entertainment, Blair and a longstanding circle of collaborators continue to create psychologically driven genre stories rooted in obsession, vulnerability, and dread. Mookpark’s latest short film, Tender Objects, completed post-production in April 2026 and is now on the festival circuit, with additional projects already in development.
HOW IT ALL STARTED
Mookpark was born in Isla Vista, CA while Blair was studying film at UC Santa Barbara. Tucked between the university and the sea, Isla Vista was its own fever dream — a beach town alive with chaos, creativity, rebellion, and possibility. In the house Blair shared with his roommates, something took shape that would outlast the parties, the bonfires, and the passing years: a creative identity built for the wicked, the wily, the weary, and those drawn to the dark.
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That house became known as Mookpark — a place of unruly energy, big ideas, and communal invention. It was where friendships were forged, visions were tested, and the first sparks of a lasting creative life were lit. More than a home, Mookpark became a state of mind: a space where the possible and impossible could collide, where dreamers could build their own mythology, and where darkness and imagination could live side by side.
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Mookpark remains the spirit at the center of the work today — a home for strange stories, restless ideas, and the people compelled to chase them. Once Mookpark gets into you, it doesn’t really leave.