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Tom Musca
Tom Musca[1] (born 1951) is an American writer and filmmaker, who first came to attention as the writer and producer of Stand and Deliver in 1988. The film's star, Edward James Olmos, was nominated for an Oscar for his performance. Stand and Deliver received six Independent Spirit Awards including Best Picture and Best Screenplay honors for Musca.[2] The film is preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.[3] Musca has gone on to write, produce and direct for film, television and the theatre, and is head of the MFA Screenwriting track at the University of Miami School of Communications.
Musca has written and produced films including Tortilla Soup starring Hector Elizondo, and Money for Nothing with John Cusack, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Benicio del Toro. Most recently, he wrote, produced and directed [4]Chateau Vato, a rags to riches comedy set in Miami starring Paul Rodriguez and Elpidia Carillo[5]. Currently he is completing post-production on Dying To Direct, a short film based on one of his short stories and is in pre-production on Aguadilla.
Musca has collaborated with Jay Abramowitz on a comedic novel about the downward arc of an aging Hollywood television writer published in 2019 entitled Formerly Cool
Education
BA Rutgers - 1973
MFA UCLA - 1981
Career
Filmography
Little Nikita (story) 1988
Stand and Deliver (writer/producer) 1988
Race (writer/director) 1988
Money for Nothing (writer/producer) 1993
Flight of Fancy aka Facing Fear (writer/producer/second unit director) 2000
Tortilla Soup (writer) 2001
Bad Hurt (co-producer) 2015
Pray For Rain (associate producer) 2016
Make Love Great Again (producer, additional writing, actor) 2018
Chateau Vato (writer/director/producer) 2020
Amaraica (producer) 2021
Playing Through (script consultant)
Dying to Direct (writer/director) in post-production
Television
Gotta Kick It Up! (writer) 2001
You Again? - Executive Story Editor (1986)
- Good Neighbors (writer)
- Personals (writer)
- ^ "Author Profile - Tom Musca". www.dramaticpublishing.com. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ^ "Stand and Deliver - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards - NYTimes.com". web.archive.org. 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ^ "2011 National Film Registry More Than a Box of Chocolates". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ^ "Associate professor writes, produces, directs HBO film". news.miami.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-18.
- ^ Abravanel, Lesley (February 7, 2019). ""Wait isn't that Paul Rodriguez? Apparently some directors still make movies in Miami."". The Miami Herald. p. 1. Retrieved October 18, 2022.