Eric McGinty(I)

Eric McGinty's first feature, Wallabout, won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2015 Bushwick Film Festival and the Best Personal Narrative Award at the 2014 Manhattan Film Festival. In 2016, Wallabout played for a month at the venerable Paris art house, Cinéma Saint-André des Arts, where the esteemed film magazine, Positif, gave it 4 stars. Eric's previous credits include the short films The Mitten, and TransMission 1998, a documentary featuring painter Luke Gray. Based in Brooklyn, Eric grew up in a bicultural environment, having been raised in Paris and Washington, D.C. by a French mother and an American father. As a first assistant director, Eric often collaborated with French directors who were shooting films in the US, including Cédric Klapisch, Luc Besson, Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano, and Rachid Bouchareb. He began his career in Paris working as an actor and stage manager in theater and dance. He attended the Sorbonne and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he concentrated his studies in film and literature.