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

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

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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

*'' Taking My Parents to Burning Man'' (2014) *''Shooting the Musical'' (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)