Jeff McCarty

Born in Chicago, Jeff McCarty has been a passionate disciple of cinema since the age of four, graduating from the USC School of Cinema-Television before writing, producing, and directing The Ballad of PonyBoy, a feature film which McCarty based on his own experiences as a traveling door-to-door salesman in East L.A. The film has been an audience favorite at many U.S. film festivals, receiving exceptional praise from many respected filmmakers and journalists including Allison Anders (Mi Vida Loca, Gas Food Lodging), Nancy Montuori Stein (Stealing Innocence, All Ages Night) and Angela Shelton (Searching for Angela Shelton). In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Jeff McCarty spent the past twelve years running Technicolor's Film Restoration Department, where he personally supervised the restoration of many classic films, including Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Big Parade, and Mr. Hulot's Holiday. He has regularly instructed and taught film restoration to students from such respected institutions like the George Eastman House. McCarty is developing a feature-length documentary entitled Bread and Circuses, a film about the legendary psychedelic rock band from Brazil, Os Mutantes. His pitch for the project to ITVS at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival was selected as the audience favorite, and was featured as the cover story in The Missoulian. In preparation for the film, McCarty was asked to direct a short film about Os Mutantes for WGBH (PBS Affiliate in Boston) entitled Os Mutantes and the Garden of Notes, which was narrated by indie rock sensation, Devendra Banhart, as directing the production of an EPK about the band for Anti-Records. McCarty's rock 'n roll-themed films are a staple of Allison Anders's extraordinarily popular Don't Knock the Rock Festival in Los Angeles, with his newest piece, Parallelograms, (a short film about legendary dentist-turned-folksinger Linda Perhacs) which premiered in 2010.