BIOGRAPHY
AGUSTIN McCARTHY
AGUSTIN McCARTHY (They/Them) is a non-binary New Yorker who writes about people learning to love and laugh while living with catastrophe - both real and imagined.
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Their short films have been showcased at various festivals worldwide, including Telluride where their teen misfit dramedy THE PROM QUEEN was selected for the “Filmmakers of Tomorrow” section. A graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts, Agustin has written a variety of award-winning feature screenplays including PANSY, a queer coming-of-age forbidden love story, which won the IFP Emerging Narrative Screenplay Award and the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition before making it to the Final Round of the Sundance Lab.
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They are currently in post-production on their documentary TRANSCESTORS about an intergenerational "family" of trans and non-binary people who set out on a road trip to search for transgender historical figures whose lives were often hidden yet who paved the way for today’s visible, proud trans community.
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A former choreographer, Agustin is also a yoga and mindfulness instructor who in their spare time can be found in Central Park staring at trees or spinning like a whirling dervish.
FILMOGRAPHY
LOOK AT LUCAS
March 2019
10 minutes
A young boy wants to play with his mother at the beach but first he has to get her off her phone.
UNCLE STEPHANIE
June 2014
18 minutes
A college student shoots a documentary about his colorful uncle, an aspiring transgender cabaret star from New York City, and learns more about his family than he ever wanted to know.
THE PROM QUEEN
September 2000
18 minutes
A punk rock gay kid develops an unlikely crush on a boy from the popular crowd and a secret tryst leads to a prom scene that no one will ever forget.
ZEN PARKING
June 2017
11 minutes
A yoga teacher looking for parking is forced to face his rage when someone steals his spot.
THE RED BOOK (Trailer)
April 2012
Trailer for a novel written by Deborah Copaken Kogan, published by Hyperion Books.
THE BEAR
June 1999
A teenage boy's plan to spend a day at the opera is ruined when his father gives him a rifle for his 18th birthday and forces him to go on a hunting expedition.
IFP MARKET
EMERGING NARRATIVE
SCREENPLAY AWARD
Pansy
True Crime Thriller
IFP
MARKET
PANASONIC DIGITAL
FILMMAKING GRANT
Mohammed & Mary
Dark Comedy
Telluride
Film
Festival
FILMMAKER OF TOMORROW
Prom Queen
Short Film