Joel Ashton McCarthy
Canadian film director
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| Intro | Canadian film director | ||
| Places | Canada | ||
| is | Screenwriter Film director Writer | ||
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | ||
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The details
Biography
Joel Ashton McCarthy is a Canadian film director.
Career
McCarthy's debut feature, the documentary Taking My Parents to Burning Man (2014), successfully crowdfunded $10,000 and won multiple awards. In 2016, McCarthy won a Leo Award for directing the Crazy8s short film I Love You So Much It's Killing Them. In 2017, he was nominated for a Gotham Award for his series, Inconceivable, which won $50,000 from Telus Storyhive.
McCarthy later founded and ran the Vancouver 48-hour Run N Gun film competition.
Selected filmography
As director
- Taking My Parents to Burning Man (2014)
- Shooting the Musical (2014)
- I Love You So Much It's Killing Them (2016, for Crazy8s)
- Inconceivable (2016-2017)
- I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021)