Drive-Thru Productions
A Drive-Thru film crew shooting around a vintage green RV in the California hills

An independent film team in Los Angeles

We makemovies.

Drive-Thru is home to the team making See You When You Get Home, the shorter films that came before it, and whatever comes next.

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What we're making.

See You When You Get Home is the feature we're finishing now. The shorter films below are part of how we got here.

A vintage green RV speeding onto a Southern California highway Feature · Coming soon

See You When You Get Home

Now Final post-production · Coming soon

A messy, funny, emotional road trip about five friends driving each other to college. One of them is driving everyone crazy.

Explore the feature

Production roll · In motion

Cast and camera crew staging a sunny driveway scene with a boom microphone overhead
Setting the driveway scene.
The cast and crew standing together beside the green RV among tall trees
The whole traveling company.
Crew members playfully posing together beneath the desert mountains
Desert crew, between setups.
Five cast members gathered around the open back of the green RV on a tree-lined road
At the back of the RV.

Short films

The shorter films.

These are short films from the Drive-Thru archive, made before the feature we're finishing now.

A lone figure in a desert landscape beneath the complete title We Met at the End 01

Archive short

We Met at the End

At the edge of the desert, a solitary encounter turns the end of one journey into the beginning of another.

The complete yellow title The Laundry Monster on black 02

Archive short

The Laundry Monster

A young man’s neglected pile of laundry grows into a problem much larger—and stranger—than he expected.

A frightened captive facing his interrogator in a dim room in Waterboarder 03

Archive short

Waterboarder

A Drive-Thru crime short from the company archive.

The complete Happy Pills title surrounded by yellow smiley-face tablets 04

Archive short

Happy Pills

A promise of easy happiness takes an unsettling turn when the cure begins to shape the man taking it.

The complete title The Hostel Killer over a warm, cherry-decorated kitchen 05

Archive short

The Hostel Killer

A Drive-Thru short from the company archive.

Drive-Thru is still becoming whatever it's going to be.

Right now, it means the films we're making and the people helping us make them.

The Drive-Thru team

The See You When You Get Home crew posing together in front of the mountains
A crew member celebrating beneath a pink Southern California sunset

About Drive-Thru

The people behind the films.

Drive-Thru Productions is a film team built around the people making the work.

Each project brings together cast, crew, and collaborators who care about the work and want room to try something new.

Drive-Thru was founded by Jackson Carpinello and Matthew Garbacz, who continue to make films alongside the wider team.

Based
Los Angeles
Making
Features & short films
Now
Finishing SYWYGH

Contact · Take 01

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Cast and crew talking between setups beside production vehicles
Between setups · See You When You Get Home

Short film · From the archive

We Met at the End

2025 · 24:48

At the edge of the desert, a solitary encounter turns the end of one journey into the beginning of another.

Directed by Jackson Carpinello · Written by Matias Herrera · Cinematography by Matthew Garbacz

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