Park Pictures has signed director Tom McCarthy for commercial representation. McCarthy is an Oscar-nominated writer; his filmmaking has also garnered assorted honors.
Previously known primarily for his acting (The Wire,) McCarthy burst onto the filmmaking scene in 2003 as writer/director of his debut feature, The Station Agent, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award and the prestigious Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Additional recognition came from the BAFTA Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Writers Guild Awards, among others.
McCarthy’s next feature The Visitor premiered in 2007 to similar acclaim, winning the award for Best Screenplay from the San Diego Film Critics Society, the Satellite Award for Best Screenplay and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Direction.
After receiving a 2009 Oscar nomination for the screenplay for the Disney Pixar animated feature UP, co-written with Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, McCarthy went on to write and direct the 2011 dramedy Win Win, which won the Humanitas Prize that year for film and television writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way. A Fox Searchlight release, Win Win starred Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan, and went on to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay by the WGA Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards.
In addition to his writing and directing, McCarthy continues his career as an actor with credits in such films as Flags of Our Fathers, Syriana, All the King’s Men, Duplicity and The Lovely Bones. He was also featured on the final season of the hit HBO drama series The Wire.
McCarthy has an ongoing overhead, development and production deal with Odd Lot Entertainment.
SUPERLATIVE Signs Director Claudia Abend For Spots and Branded Content
Latin American director/editor and documentary filmmaker Claudia Abend has joined SUPERLATIVE for her first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content.
Abend's empathetic docu-style POV has garnered several international awards for the documentary films Hit (2008) and The Flower of Life (2018). Her spotmaking credits include such brands as Procter & Gamble, Nestle and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. SUPERLATIVE has already worked with Abend, together producing a new ad campaign for digital agency Tinuiti and The Honest Company, a consumer goods corporation featuring eco-minded products.
“We found Claudia through her poignant documentaries on the festival circuit,” said SUPERLATIVE creative manager Stefan Dezil. “We are excited about her textured narratives, emotional storytelling, and her powerhouse long-form storytelling abilities, currently on her third feature film. As SUPERLATIVE continues to build our brand after premiering our latest films at Sundance and SXSW, Claudia is the kind of multidimensional artist we are excited to partner with on branded content and beyond. Fluent in English and Spanish, her reel shows real prowess with infants, food and skin products, families both young and old. Great visual storytelling and inspirational doc work.”
Abend began her career in her native Uruguay, studying film and editing in college. “My dad would show me films like Citizen Kane,” she said. “I love cinema and became an editor. It was here that I learned all about communicating human emotion.”
From the get-go, Abend hit it big as a documentary director, teaming with Adrianna Loeff on Hit, a movie chronicling pop artists of Uruguayan music. Abend took home a Best Editing... Read More