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Joseph Andrew McLean | |
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Born | Glasgow, Scotland | 30 November 1979
Education | St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Glasgow |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow and University of California |
Occupation | Producer |
Years active | 2011–present |
Website | http://www.josephandrewmclean.com and http://www.partickularfilms.com |
Joseph Andrew McLean (born 30 November 1979) is a Scottish film and TV producer. He has produced over 60 episodes of the TV drama River City for BBC Studios He has also produced commercials, documentaries, music videos and short films in the UK and USA.
He founded the Glasgow-based production company Partickular Films and is also the founder of Partick Film Festival. [1]
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McLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Anne (née Wason), and Alistair McLean. He has three older siblings Alyson, James and Lynn.
He attended St. Peter's Primary in Partick and St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Jordanhill.
Born on St. Andrew's Day, he is named after Scotland's Patron Saint.
He had a love of film from a young age and was an avid cinema goer, frequenting the local Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane and the Salon Cinema in Hillhead.
In 2013 he graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Master of Arts (Scotland) in English Literature and Politics.
Joseph studied screenwriting at the University of California and University of Strathclyde.
McLean made a number of short films during his time at the University of California and University of Glasgow.
His first feature film script Utopia, loosely based on the events surrounding Jim Jones, the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 909 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana was voted runner-up at the 20th Anniversary University of California, Irvine Screenwriting Festival in 2012.
After leaving university, McLean founded his own production company Partickular Films which specialises in commercials, documentaries, films and music videos. [2]
In 2013, he released the short film Sectarian Secret Police about a Partick Thistle supporter who is kidnaped by a special police unit who demand he disowns his favourite football team in favour of Rangers or Celtic. The film screened at numerous film festivals throughout the UK, including Screentest: The National Student Film Festival in London and the Loch Ness film festival. [3]
In the same year he also directed the music video Nothing on Earth for the band Casual Sex, the music video was showcased by SXSW [4] and featured in The Daily Record [5] and The Skinny. [6]
In 2014, McLean wrote a pilot for a TV series called 2014 which revolved around the organisers for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [7]
McLean was commissioned to write a script for an animated film as part of Deep Roots, Kilmarnock's major Homecoming Scotland event in 2014, charting the history of Dean Castle and the Boyd family, who were lords of Kilmarnock for over 400 years. [8] The 10-minute animation was screened onto the side of the castle to an audience of over 1400 local school children.
His short film Nomad about the Scottish Independence Referendum was inspired by a scene from The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty. The film was screened at the Shorts on Tap Beyond Scotland event at 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London. [9]
McLean's short film Car Sick (2023) has screened at festivals in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Ireland.
He is a member of BAFTA Scotland.
Film | Year | Director | Role | Project | |
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Behind The Lines | 1997 | Gillies MacKinnon | Actor | Feature Film | |
The Perils of Smoking | 2011 | Actor | Short Film | ||
The Decoy Bride | 2011 | Sheree Folkson | Actor | Feature Film | |
First Impressions | 2011 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Short Film | |
Mausam | 2011 | Pankaj Kapur | Actor | Feature Film | |
The Cookie Monster (USA) | 2012 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Short Film | |
Utopia: The Temple of Paradise (USA) | 2012 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Short Film | |
Sectarian Secret Police | 2013 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Short Film | |
Loch Fyne | 2014 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Documentary | |
Locavore: Pigs in the Park | 2014 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Documentary | |
Deep Roots | 2014 | Screenwriter | Animated Film | ||
Nomad | 2014 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Short Film | |
Glasgow Fish Market | 2014 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Documentary | |
Cows, Cash & Cover-ups: Investigating vCJD | 2017 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Documentary | |
Outlaw King | 2018 | David Mackenzie | Assistant to Executive Producer | Feature Film | |
Slingshot | 2018 | Robin Haig | Associate Producer | Short Film | |
Get Duked! | 2019 | Ninian Doff | Associate Producer | Feature Film | |
Our Ladies | 2019 | Michael Caton-Jones | Assistant to Director | Feature Film | |
The Small Hand | 2019 | Justin Molotnikov | Production Coordinator | TV Film | |
Then Came You | 2019 | Adriana Trigiani | Production Assistant | Feature Film | |
Zebra Girl | 2021 | Stephanie Zari | Production Coordinator | Feature Film | |
Go Home | 2021 | Razan Madhoon | Associate Producer | Short Film | |
Unders | 2021 | Bert Dijkstra | Associate Producer | Short Film | |
Car Sick | 2023 | David Hayman Jr | Producer | Short Film |
TV Show | Year | Director | Role | Project |
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Take The High Road | 1996 | Actor | STV | |
River City | 2011 | Actor | BBC Studios | |
2014 | 2014 | Joseph Andrew Mclean | Producer / Director | Partickular Films |
Not Safe for Work | 2014 | Production Assistant | Channel 4 | |
Lovesick | 2014 | Production Assistant | Channel 4 | |
CNN | 2016 | Producer | CNN | |
Antiques Road Trip | 2017 | Researcher | STV | |
The People's History Show | 2017 | Researcher | STV | |
Succession | 2019 | Production Assistant | HBO | |
The Nest (British TV series) | 2020 | Production Assistant | BBC Scotland | |
River City | 2019–2021 | Production Management | BBC Studios | |
River City | 2021–2024 | Producer | BBC Studios |
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