Jul 13, 20233 min read
Looking Forward to Hindsight
How do you make sense of your life when other people are listening? One of the fun/exciting/deeply challenging parts of being a...
Mar 13, 20236 min read
I'd Like to Thank The Academy (Museum)
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Oscars I would be lying if I said that I never thought about winning an Academy Award....
May 6, 20225 min read
“The awful thing about life is this…”
Film school and California culture were a shock to my system. My first semester in the SF State Cinema Department was thrilling. Moving...
Apr 11, 20224 min read
Art Imitates Life, or Vice-versa
Memories of teenage movie making and its consequences. The sickening crunch of glass and plastic replays in my head as I step onto the...
Feb 24, 20224 min read
1968: A Personal Odyssey
How astronauts real and fictitious launched my life and career. The year 1968 has a lot of… history. It was a pivotal, dramatic year in...
Jan 27, 20223 min read
Our Lady of Exalted Exhibition
Religious experiences come in many places. Going to the movies was my church. The year that I arrived in San Francisco, one of its most...
Nov 1, 20212 min read
Arrivederci, Hollywood
It's time for a career reboot. I moved to California to go to film school and never looked back. (I did make the curious choice of moving...
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Room for Collaboration
As a producer-director who struggles a bit with screenwriting, I envy those writing rooms on series television. The writing is often so...
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Making the Most of Quarantine
After a relatively busy year in 2019, it was doubly frustrating (professionally speaking) to face 2020 in lockdown and video chats...
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The Story is Still Being Written
Michael McCartney is a lucky man and he knows it. An actor, director and instructor (at the New York Film Academy), Michael wrote and...
