Josh Funk is a filmmaker and animator based in Northern California. His work explores the materiality of children’s television and the unsettling undercurrents that often lie beneath fun and entertainment.

Funk uses stop-motion, 2D, and experimental animation techniques across independent films, music videos, stage performances, and feature films. His genre-driven work has screened internationally at festivals such as the SciFi Film Festival (Parramatta, Australia), Another Hole in the Head (San Francisco, CA), Grimmfest (Manchester, UK), Atlanta Underground Film Festival, and FilmQuest (Provo, Utah).

He is best known for his award-winning short films 3 Keys (2018) and The Fuzzies (2021), a horror-comedy that earned 31 nominations and 10 awards, including Best Horror Short at the Astoria Film Festival (Astoria, NY) and Director’s Choice Short at the Chicago Horror Film Festival (Chicago, IL). The Fuzzies was later adapted into a feature film in 2025.

Funk holds an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a BA in Art Studio from California State University, Chico.