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BIOGRAPHY

AGUSTIN McCARTHY
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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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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ZEN PARKING
June 2017

11 minutes

A yoga teacher looking for parking is forced to face his rage when someone steals his spot.

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THE RED BOOK (Trailer)
April 2012

Trailer for a novel written by Deborah Copaken Kogan, published by Hyperion Books.

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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

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