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

• 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)