JOE CARNAHAN returned to the director’s chair with Smokin’ Aces following his critically acclaimed cop drama Narc, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002 and earned him a Best Director Independent Spirit Award nomination. His first feature film was Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, which he wrote, directed and starred in. Financed with his own monies, it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998.

Carnahan has also written and directed the innovative short internet film The Hire: Ticker, starring Clive Owen, Don Cheadle and F. Murray Abraham.

Carnahan’s writing career includes screenplays for Pride and Glory, a police drama currently set to be released starring Colin Farrell and Edward Norton, as well as adaptations of Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo and James Ellroy’s White Jazz, which will go into production at the end of this year with George Clooney producing and playing the lead role. He is currently writing Remarkable Fellows, which will star Jason Bateman and is slated for production late next year.

For the small screen, Carnahan directed and executive produced Faceless, a crime drama pilot for 20th Century Fox Television and has recently finished writing a pilot for NBC entitled The Double.

Carnahan is a native of Sacramento, California.

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