Filmmaker Tom Quinn cares about how people get by, how they work hard to make life better, how it’s often a struggle to do that and how, in a state of quiet transcendence, life is born of those challenges. “I’m definitely interested in making working class films and basically being a working class filmmaker,” Quinn says. “It’s what I’ve always wanted, in the same way that my dad was a carpenter and a craftsperson but also made things that were artistic and beautiful.”
In the second part of our interview with the filmmaker, recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, we continue to explore the making of Quinn’s Slamdance lauded The New Year Parade. Over the course of three years, Quinn, along with everyman crew member Mark Doyle and a dedicated cast, rehearsed, improv’d, studied and finally lived inside the world of a family in the midst of breakdown.
Here Quinn speaks about shooting in Philadel...
