EMERGENCY is Scott Prendergast's film production company and www.astateof.com is our online home.

EMERGENCY has produced five short films (see FILMS)Scott Prendergast’s first feature length film, KABLUEY, is currently in pre-production with Whitewater Films, with a tentative start date of 5/1/06.  The KABLUEY project has been chosen to participate in the 2005 Film Independent Los Angeles’ Screenwriter Lab, the 2005 FIND LA’s Producer Lab, the 2006 FIND LA’s Director Lab, the 2005 IFP New York’s Director lab, and the LA Film Fest and Filmmaker Magazine’s 2005 Fast Track Program.

Scott Prendergast's short ANNA IS BEING STALKED played at the Sundance Film Festival 2002 and 30 other film festivals worldwide. The Associated Press said of ANNA: "Pound for pound, this short film may have been the most entertaining seven minutes at Sundance 2002.” The film was picked up by the Sundance Channel and atomfilms.com.

Another Prendergast short, THE DELICIOUS, has played at over 40 film festivals worldwide, was shown on the Sundance Channel, was distributed through HYPNOTIC, and is now available on the premiere edition of WHOLPHIN, the new DVD magazine from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.

Scott Prendergast was also invited to make a short film for Fox Searchlight’s SEARCHLAB program. The film, SARAGOSSA, can be seen on this site.

The film MY LIFE was made for and has shown on MTV. The film GROUP THERAPY was made in association with Anthony Bregman and Good Machine.

Scott Prendergast wrote for MTV's CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH for two years. He was also the host of HBO's BACKPACK program. Prendergast was trained as a comedy improviser and sketch writer at the GROUNDLINGS THEATER in Los Angeles. His one-man, all-improv show, UNman, ran for two years in New York City.

Prendergast was raised in Portland, Oregon, attended Columbia University in New York City, and currently resides nowhere. He is an Eagle Scout, a disgraced MENSA member and heir to the HEATH candy bar legacy (but not the fortune.)

Additionally, Prendergast is living in a state of EMERGENCY.