“I’m always on the lookout for interesting characters that suggest a world,” says John Carney, the director behind music-driven films like Once and Sing Street.
Having dedicated himself to being a cinematic chronicler of music and the people who make it, Carney has carved out a unique in-between space as a storyteller. A self-professed “failed band guy,” he picked up a camera and focused it on his onetime creative passion. Carney is a musician’s filmmaker; a bard for the bards.
After breaking out with indie Once, a movie about an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant pianist recording music together that landed an Oscar for best original song, he made movies about the second chances made possible by music (Begin Again), the triumph and torment of first bands (Sing Street) and the therapeutic prospects of a guitar (Flora and Son). Now, he is heading back to theaters with
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