Claire McCarthy

Claire McCarthy

Birth : , Sydney

History

Claire McCarthy is a Sydney based writer, director, producer and visual artist, and has been making internationally acclaimed short films and documentaries for over a decade. A directing graduate of the Australian Film TV and Radio School (2001), Claire has written, directed and produced a number of documentaries and short films in Australia, India, Germany and Mexico including Australian Film Commission fully funded short film Skin (2006), The Find (2006), City Edge (2005), Starbaby (2002), Panopticon (2001), Square Space (2000) and Tinsel (1999). Her first feature film Cross Life debuted at the Sydney International Film Festival (2007) and release is expected in late 2007. Her documentary film Sisters in Calcutta (filmed on location in India) will broadcast on ABC television in late 2007. The Waiting City, Claire's next feature film, is in development through the Australian Film Commission's IndiVision program.

Profile

Claire McCarthy

Movies

The Colour Room
The Colour Room
Director
A pioneering ceramic artist Clarice Cliff roares to prominence in the 1920s while working in Britain’s Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry.
Ophelia
Ophelia
Director
Ophelia comes of age as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and her singular spirit captures Hamlet's affections. As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, Ophelia finds herself trapped between true love and controlling her own destiny.
The Turning
The Turning
Director
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
The Waiting City
The Waiting City
Producer
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
The Waiting City
The Waiting City
Writer
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
The Waiting City
The Waiting City
Director
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
Cross Life
Cross Life
Writer
Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights of Sydney's red light district, Kings Cross.
Cross Life
Cross Life
Director
Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights of Sydney's red light district, Kings Cross.
Skin
Skin
Writer
Robert tries to rekindle a relationship with his teenage daughters Emma and Zoe on their last holiday together before the divorce. He slowly begins to realize that not only has he lost access to all that he loves, but Emma, his youngest, maybe affected in a personal and destructive way.
Skin
Skin
Director
Robert tries to rekindle a relationship with his teenage daughters Emma and Zoe on their last holiday together before the divorce. He slowly begins to realize that not only has he lost access to all that he loves, but Emma, his youngest, maybe affected in a personal and destructive way.
The Burning Season
The Burning Season
Director
A scientist brings her teenage daughter to a remote region of Madagascar, where her determination to save endangered lemurs puts their relationship and safety at risk.
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Screenplay
Set during the early 1900s in South Dakota, Rachel and Isaac Dupree, an African American couple, raise their family on an isolated ranch in the Badlands.
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Director
Set during the early 1900s in South Dakota, Rachel and Isaac Dupree, an African American couple, raise their family on an isolated ranch in the Badlands.