‘Chapo Trap House’ Has a Hit Podcast. Now, They Have a Movie
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- ColdFeet Productions — the production company of the Chapo Trap House team — is releasing "Chunks," an anthology comedy of six surreal shorts, premiering July 19 at 8 p.m. ET on Patreon via the platform's new digital ticketing feature.
- Chunks packages left-wing critiques of late-stage capitalism into cable-access-style segments, including an animated healthcare industry takedown by Nick Mullen, a Sartre-flipping afterlife piece with Sandy Honig, and a streaming-poker-gone-wrong short co-written by Nate Fischer.
- Amber A'Lee Frost, co-founder and then co-host of the podcast, moved from New York to L.A. in 2020 and pitched the anthology idea via PowerPoint to her co-hosts and longtime producer Chris Wade, who now co-runs ColdFeet alongside her and Josh Androsky.
- ColdFeet structured each "Chunks" segment to function as a potential standalone pilot, with segment creators retaining ownership — a model Frost likens to "a micro Patreon" where the company provides startup money in exchange for broadcast rights.
- ColdFeet's broader slate includes co-producing "Eephus" (which premiered at Cannes last year), producing Tim Heidecker vehicle "Raccoon" for the festival circuit this fall, and developing a Sony-backed animated adaptation of Matt Bores and Ben Clarkson's comic "Justice Warriors" about a police officer made of poop.
Why it matters: ColdFeet's model gives left-leaning creators ownership over segments designed as future pilots — turning Chapo's niche fanbase into a launchpad that Hollywood's "write it and we'll take 10 percent" approach, as Frost put it, won't.
