The Brave Man (Movie)

Producer, Director, Writer (www.mccarthycommunication.com)

Joe is president of McCarthy Communications, Inc., a company that supports the communications efforts of businesses and not-for-profit organizations. His clients have included IBM, AT&T, Xerox, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont, The Big Apple Circus, Association FranÁois-Xavier Bagnod, and the Major League Baseball Players Association. He has served as an executive with other communications companies including Edelman Public Relations (as a senior vice president) and as a partner in The Glyn Group. During his early career he worked with Amram Nowak Associates, Steeg Productions, and David Sawyer's company, DHS Productions.

Joe discovered film in 1967 at the University of Washington. A friend animated a Campbell's soup can across a window-sill, and Joe was hooked. He and two others organized the first film program at the UW as an independent study. He wrote reviews for the local underground paper. He and the publisher organized a film festival on campus, and his first documentary was accepted in the first Bellevue Film festival and was shown on the local NBC affiliate. At NYU Film School he focused on documentary and dramatic projects. Since entering the business professionally, he has written five feature scripts that have yet to be produced.

He and his wife, Pamela Maffei McCarthy, live in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, with their son and daughter.

Narrator, General William Alexander/Lord Stirling

Broadway: Aida, The King and I. National Tour: M. Butterfly. Off Broadway: Hapgood, Death and the King's Horseman (Lincoln Center Theater), Aristocrats, Prin (MTC), Spread Eagle (WPA), A Fool's Errand (NYTW), K (AJT). Regional: Paper Mill, Actors Theater of Louisville, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, McCarter. TV: "Law & Order," "Follow the River," "The Mabinogi." Film: Everything's Jake, The Eden Myth, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole.

Director of Photography

Since the beginning of his career as a Director of Photography, Chuck has shot for both the big and the little screen, most recently a lot of super 16 for HD distribution and blowup. He works, primarily, in the documentary style. He has shot long-form documentaries and low-budget dramatic films for theatrical release, public television, ABC, NBC, CBS, and cable. His national commercial clients have included Ford, Sears, IBM, DuPont, Sony, the YMCA. He has shot industrial and corporate films and tapes for DuPont, Ciba-Geigy, Bristol Myers Squibb, Trinity Church, Andersen Consulting and many others.

Four of his films have been nominated for Academy Awards. One won - Woodstock. Five TV shows have won Emmys. Chuck has personally been nominated for Emmy Awards in cinematography nine times and has won four.

He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Tribeca with his wife, Carla Bauer, and two children. He was born in Brooklyn.

Editor

Jesse has been working in the film and television industry for over twenty years. Jesse's collaboration with Joe McCarthy started in 1986 and has continued ever since. His career highlights include producing and editing political commercials for the 1988 presidential campaign, producing and editing promos for CBS, editing a CBS national television special, editing PBS news features, and producing and editing corporate documentaries for AT&T. Jesse works independently from his office on 18th St. in Manhattan and lives with his wife and daughter in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Sound Design

Brooklyn-born Matt Kaplowitz is widely regarded for his award-winning sound design, original compositions, and final audio mixes for all media, from radio to the Internet, for television and Broadway, CDs and CD-ROMs.

Matt's sound design and audio-mixing clients are legion and include BMG/RCA Records, Disney, Sony Music, HBO, ESPN, and the currently-running interactive pay-per-view version of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, produced by Liberty/Livewire. Most recently he mixed Hollywood, DC, a feature-length documentary, which premiered on Bravo!, Elton John Live At Madison Square Garden — One Night Only and Roger Waters — In The Flesh for Sony. Some recent spots include HBO, AT&T Cable, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Brother, HIP, Elizabeth Arden, and Timberland.

As sound producer/music director for Broadway Television Network, Matt developed Broadway Surround , a sound-mixing format designed to bring the live listening experience to the 5.1 surround-sound home theater environment.

His awards include a Grammy, an Emmy, a 2001 Emmy nomination, the 2001 New York International. Film & TV Festival gold medal for television sound design, the Peabody and Cable Ace awards, and numerous Clio, Monitor, Action for Children's Television, Cindy, Chicago and Houston Film Festivals, Questar, Intercom, and New York International Film & TV Festival awards for composition, sound mixing, and sound design.

Map Designer and Artist

For The Brave Man, Matteo hand-drew and painted the maps used to indicate the positions of the British and American armies in the Gowanus Valley. He also painted the landscapes depicting the Gowanus Valley, the Old Stone House (called the Vechte House in the film) and the picture of the village of Brooklyn in the 1770s.

Matteo was born in Milan in 1968. He graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a degree in architecture and moved to New York in 1995, where he now lives and works as an architect and illustrator. Matteo worked at Richard Meier & Partners for three and a half years. Among other projects, he worked on the Church of the Year 2000 in Rome. His work as an illustrator has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Travel & Leisure, CondÈ Nast Traveler, and by Rizzoli, Callaway Editions, and Farrar Straus & Giroux, among others. Since 1998 he has been a regular collaborator (illustrator) for the Italian national newspaper La Stampa. His accordion-format book Manhattan Unfurled was published by Random House in 2001.