Tom Quinn
Directing
Biography
Tom Quinn is a writer and director based outside Philadelphia. His debut, THE NEW YEAR PARADE, was nominated for a Gotham Award as well as an Independent Spirit Award in the John Cassavetes Award category. Tom was listed as one of the “25 Faces of Independent Film” by FILMMAKER MAGAZINE and one of the “Ten Young Writer-Directors to Watch,” by MOVIEMAKER. Quinn has participated in the TIFF Talent Lab, The Biennale College, IFP No Borders, and the Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab. His most recent film, COLEWELL, received a Kenneth Rainin foundation grant from the San Francisco Film Society. COLEWELL was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards: the John Cassavetes Award and Best Female Lead, for Karen Allen. Tom previously worked as a visual effects producer on films including SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED and SAFE. Tom is the program director for Film & Television Production at Drexel University.
Known For
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
The Fly
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
Safe
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
The Virgin Suicides
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
Chernobyl Diaries
Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Pushing Tin
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Stanley & Iris
In tiny Colewell, Pennsylvania, the residents gather at the post office for mail and gossip, while the days pass quiet and serene. That is until news comes that the office is to close, and beloved clerk Nora is left to fight for her job and reflect on the choices she has made that kept her in Colewell for so many years.
Colewell
Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder takes place.
Philo Vance's Secret Mission
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
The New Year Parade
A father takes his two young songs to the working class neighborhood where he grew up to buy bicycles.