Joel Ashton McCarthy explained

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

• 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)

Notes and References

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