Siobhan McCarthy

Award winning film and web series producer, S. Siobhan McCarthy, is the CEO and Executive Producer of blyssful Productions and red trike media inc. She is the co-creator, Executive Producer and Showrunner of the web series Parked, which is currently on the festival circuit. Parked received funding from the BC Film + Media Interactive Fund, the IPF and Creative BC, and was a part of the CFC Media Lab's ideaBOOST Affiliate Program. Parked has screened at numerous prestigious web festivals and has been nominated for Best Comedy, Best Canadian Series, Best Actor and Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. Peter DeLuise won Best Director for her Series at the Vancouver Webfest 2015. Parked has gone viral on three separate platforms. Down Here, her first feature film that she produced, premiered at the 2013 Whistler Film Festival and had its theatrical debut in April 2015. As an innovative, transdisciplinary artist and educator, Siobhan also produced WAM, BC's first international disability media festival through Kickstart Disability Arts when she was the Co-Artistic Director. Whilst she was there, she Executive Produced five short films including WILL, that won the Golden Sheaf at the 2013 Yorkton Film Festival and PATIENCE AND ABSURDITY, which represented Canada at the Paralympics Games in London in 2012. Siobhan has been the Production Manager of the Vancouver International Film Festival Forum for over a decade. She has a slate of film, television, and web properties in development. In 2014 she was chosen as a Bell Media National Fellow and won the WIFT Banff Scholarship. In 2015 McCarthy was invited to join the CMPA Berlinale EFM Delegation, where she pitched her slate of films to industry stakeholders. In May Siobhan is attending Cannes March du Film's Producer's Network to pitch red trike's slate and to represent, The Twisted Slipper in the Cannes Court de Metrage McCarthy moonlights as an educator, actor, writer and director for hire as well as creating digital strategies and acting as a social media community manager for various broadcast properties which include; W Network's "The Cupcake Girls"- Seasons 2&3, HGTV's "Urban Suburban"- Seasons 1&2, OWN's "Murder She Solved True Crime"- Seasons 2&3 and Food Network's "Family Cook Off" McCarthy is represented by Kim Barsanti at Muse Artist Management.