Joel Ashton McCarthy

Joel Ashton McCarthy is a Canadian film director.[1][2]

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.[3] In 2017, he was nominated for a Gotham Award for his series, Inconceivable, which won $50,000 from Telus Storyhive.[4]

McCarthy later founded and ran the Vancouver 48-hour Run N Gun film competition.[5]

Selected filmography

As director

References
  1. Furminger, Sabrina. "Five Vancouver indie filmmakers who've got us excited about #BCFilm". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  2. "NIC Talks – Special Guest JOEL ASHTON MCCARTHY!". New Image. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  3. mdoagad. "I Love You So Much It's Killing Them: Joel Ashton McCarthy". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  4. Nair, Roshini. "Vancouver odd couple spins comedic gold out of unexpected pregnancy". CBC. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  5. WANGERSKY, NICK. "Run N Gun 2022 – A night filled with Whopping Scoops of Strange stuff and Whooping Groups of Film folks". Hollywood North Magazine. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
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