Pat Cassidy
Pat Cassidy | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 28, 1985 Neptune, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, Talent manager |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Musical career | |
Pat Cassidy (born August 28, 1985) is an American independent film producer and music manager based in Austin, Texas.
He began his career in the entertainment business in 2001, starting a small punk and ska record label in his hometown of Herndon, Virginia.[1] He produced the 2009 short horror film, Lullaby, striking a distribution deal with Fearnet.[2] He produced the psychological horror-thriller film, House Hunting, which premiered at the 2012 Virginia Film Festival.[3] He produced The Texas Chain Saw Massacre inspired script Butcher Boys for writer-producer Kim Henkel, the film premiered at the 2012 Fantasia Festival in Montreal.[4] In 2013 he produced the indie-thriller, Two Step, for director Alex Johnson, the film premiered at the SXSW film festival to positive reviews from Variety[5] and Indiewire.[6]
Cassidy currently manages the Austin, Texas-based Indie pop band Wild Child,[7][8] as well as Whiskey Shivers, Ben Kweller, and Holiday Mountain.
References
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20140728050801/http://www.geocities.ws/pgurecords/. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Former Student's Film Attracts FEARnet". breezejmu.org. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Virginia Film Festival: A conversation with House-Hunting writer-director Eric Hurt". Charlottesville Podcasting Network. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Boneboys". Fantasiafestival.com. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Advertisement". Variety. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Drew Taylor (11 March 2014). "SXSW Review: Deeply Human And Quietly Unsettling Thriller - The Playlist". The Playlist. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Wild Child - 'The Runaround' (album premiere)". PopMatters. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "How J. Sider became a go-to guy for Beyonce, Justin Timberlake". Upstart Business Journal. 6 April 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.