Joshua Locy
Art
Biography
Josh Locy is a director, writer, and production designer whose work spans award-winning films, acclaimed television, and some of the most memorable campaigns in contemporary advertising. He was a writer on The Righteous Gemstones for HBO, part of his long-standing creative collaboration with director David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. Originally from central Virginia, Josh studied literature and played college basketball before moving to Los Angeles to build a career in film. He cut his teeth an an art director, where he helped shape the visual identity of iconic commercials, including Tom Kuntz’s Old Spice “Smell Like a Man” campaign. His work with David Gordon Green continued through features such as Prince Avalanche and Manglehorn, deepening his storytelling instincts and sensitivity to tone, atmosphere, and character. In 2016 he wrote and directed his debut feature Hunter Gatherer, which premiered at SxSW, won a Special Jury Prize, and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. He has also been a MacDowell fellow. Most recently, he co-wrote and directed the short film Potato Potato, which has screened internationally, making audiences groan, laugh, and guffaw.
Known For
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
Camp X-Ray
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s an ex-con who, 40 years ago, gave up the woman of his dreams for a big ‘job’. After a dramatic effort to start over, Manglehorn faces a terrifying moment and is unmasked as a guy with a very, very dark past.
Manglehorn
Fred Figglehorn is in love with Judy, who lives next door. But Kevin, the local bully, prevents Fred from seeing Judy until she moves out of town. So, Fred embarks on a quest to find her in the hope that his feelings will be reciprocated.
FRED: The Movie
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Prince Avalanche
After a three-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find that she and his family have done what they always wanted to do — forget he exists.
Hunter Gatherer
When Cynthia writes a letter to her unborn baby about her hopes for the future, the baby writes back.
Potato Potato
Luke and Brie are indeed, on a first date. At turns exhilarating and frustrating, the night will take them from a dive bar to a house party to the streets of Highland Park. Throughout the evening, earnest Luke does his best to defend his big night from a who’s who of interlopers as he tries to decipher what he views as the many mixed signals from gregarious Brie. As the pair’s developing relationship inches from flirtation towards something more substantive, the evening’s myriad distractions will melt away leaving only snowballing misunderstandings mixed with electric moments of connection, each with the potential to be either the igniting spark or the crushing end of their young relationship.