JOFFRE MCCLUNG
Writer - Producer - Director

BEST WISHES marks Ms. McClung's feature film debut. After working in New York as an actress and producer in the theatre, she returned to her native Texas in the mid-nineties and threw herself into learning everything she could about film making.

Over the next four years, she worked on various shorts, always doing a multiple of jobs including producing, acting, asst. editing, casting, costuming, hair & makeup, boom and even the perils of craft services.

One of the shorts, TI-BOY'S WIFE (directed by Richard Lormand) which she co-produced and starred in, went on to win several awards including Grand Jury Prize at Lille France and the Best Actress award at Festival Du Court De Villeurbanne.

She eventually jumped into the deep end and wrote, produced and directed her first short OUT OF THE BLUE. It was this experience that finally convinced her that while she still had much to learn, she had to tell her own stories.

By the time, she had returned to New York in 1998 she had completed two screenplays CIRCLES (a story about struggling actors and second chances in New York) and ON THE SHOW (a story of three 1950's women whose lives are changed when the circus comes town). McClung decided during the summer of 2001 that in order to get funding for her circus film she would make a short film set in the same period to show investors. What she got instead was her first feature film BEST WISHES. Much like her character Peggy, McClung's wish came true in way she never expected.