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Tom Musca first gained recognition as the producer and writer of Stand and Deliver. The acclaimed Warner Bros. film, starring Edward James Olmos, received an Oscar nomination and won six Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. It is also preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.
In recent years, Musca has become one of Miami's most active film producers, writing and directing Chateau Vato, which premiered on HBO and earned Elpidia Carrillo the Best Actress award at the 2021 Barcelona Film Festival. He also produced Amaraica, which won Best U.S. Feature at the 2020 NY Latino Film Festival and is available on HBO through fall 2023. His prior immigration drama, Make Love Great Again, was also licensed to HBO. Musca's latest projects include Cognac & Croquetas, awarded Best Original Screenplay at the 2020 UFVA competition, and Aguadilla, an erotic thriller, both set to be produced in partnership with MOVIEMEX.
Musca has written roles for a diverse range of Hollywood actors, such as John Cusack, Andy Garcia, James Gandolfini, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Benicio del Toro, Raquel Welch, Sidney Poitier, Lou Diamond Phillips, Hector Elizondo, River Phoenix, CCH Pounder, Cliff Robertson, Estelle Harris, Michael Madsen, and America Ferrera, among others.
His other produced screen credits include the Imagen Award-winning Tortilla Soup; Hollywood Pictures' Money For Nothing; Disney Channel's Gotta Kick It Up!; Columbia Pictures' Little Nikita; Showtime's Flight of Fancy; Netflix's Bad Hurt; and HBO's Race.
Musca's debut comedic novel, Formerly Cool, co-written with Jay Abramowitz, is used as assigned reading in college courses. He has served as the Moseley Fellow for Creative Writing at Pomona College, guest lectured at the Sundance Institute, NYU, USC, and AFI, and led MPAA producing and screenwriting workshops across four continents. Currently, he is the head of the MFA screenwriting program at the University of Miami, where he received the Robert and Christine Staub Faculty Excellence Award in 2014.
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