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Tom Musca (born 1951) is an American filmmaker and professor.




Biography


Musca received a BA from Rutgers University in 1973 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981.
Musca's best known work was as the writer and producer of Stand and Deliver in 1988. The film was nominated for seven Independent Spirit Awards and won six, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay honors for Musca. Additionally, Edward James Olmos, was nominated for an Oscar and an Academy Award for his role in the film. Stand and Deliver is preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.
He has gone on to write, produce and direct for film, television and the theater. Musca was a co-writer and producer for Money for Nothing with John Cusack, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Benicio del Toro and Tortilla Soup starring Hector Elizondo and Raquel Welch. He wrote and directed Melting Pot aka Race starring Paul Rodriguez and was a writer for Gotta Kick It Up! starring America Ferrara.
Since 2010 Musca has been the head of the MFA Screenwriting track and Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Miami School of Communication. In 2020 he wrote, produced and directed Chateau Vato, a rags to riches comedy set in Miami. On March 9, 2023, he premiered Dying To Direct, a short film based on one of his short stories at the 40th Annual Miami Film Festival, which he wrote, produced and co-directed.




Filmography


Little Nikita (story) 1988
Stand and Deliver (writer/producer) 1988
Money for Nothing (writer/producer) 1993
Melting Pot (film) aka Race (writer/director) 1998
Flight of Fancy aka Facing Fear (writer/producer/second unit director) 2000
Tortilla Soup (writer, producer) 2001
Gotta Kick it Up! Writer (2001)
Make Love Great Again (producer, additional writing, actor) 2018
Chateau Vato (writer/director/producer) 2020
Amaraica (producer) 2021
Dying to Direct(writer, director, producer) 2023




References






External links


Tom Musca at IMDb

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• Skenario Terbaik (Independent Spirit Award)
• Stand and Deliver
• Gotta Kick It Up!
• Tom Musca
• Stand and Deliver
• Money for Nothing (1993 film)
• Tortilla Soup
• Noel Quiñones
• Flight of Fancy (film)
• Gotta Kick It Up!
• Ramón Menéndez
• Musca (disambiguation)
• Stan Ridgway