Joel Ashton McCarthy is a Canadian film director.

Career

McCarthy's debut feature, the documentary ''

Taking My Parents to Burning Man ''Taking My Parents to Burning Man'' is a 2014 Canadian documentary film directed by Joel Ashton McCarthy and Bryant H. Boesen that follows the latter's adventures with his 60-year-old parents at Burning Man. It provides a behind-the-scenes look a ...

'' (2014), successfully crowdfunded $10,000 and won multiple awards. In 2016, McCarthy won a Leo Award for directing the

Crazy8s Crazy8s is a filmmaking competition and festival held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It provides funding and support to local filmmakers to shoot and edit a short film in eight days. It has been called one of the best platforms f ...

short film ''I Love You So Much It's Killing Them''. In 2017, he was nominated for a

Gotham Award The Gotham Awards () are American film awards, presented annually to the makers of independent films at a ceremony in New York City, the city first nicknamed "Gotham" by native son Washington Irving, in an issue of ''Salmagundi'', published on ...

for his series, ''Inconceivable'', which won $50,000 from

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Storyhive. McCarthy later founded and ran the Vancouver 48-hour Run N Gun film competition.

Selected filmography

As director

*''

'' (2014) *''I Love You So Much It's Killing Them'' (2016, for

) *''Inconceivable'' (2016-2017) *''I Am Alfred Hitchcock'' (2021)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McCarthy, Joel Ashton Film directors from Vancouver Living people Year of birth missing (living people)