Our Story
The Film Foundry was formed in by Joy Lusco Kecken and Scott Kecken, shortly after the pair met at Towson University. Their first collaboration, Louisville, starred Emmy award-winner Andre Braugher. It was screened at over 30 film festivals and won over 10 awards, including best short at the New York Independent International Film Festival. After receiving grants from the Maryland Arts Council and the Maryland Humanities Council, they began their feature-length documentary, We Are Arabbers, about Baltimore's horse-and-wagon produce vendors. While in post-production on the documentary, they completed another short narrative film, Woman Hollering Creek. They made their television directing debut for HBO's "The Wire".
Shooting We Are Arabbers
Joy Lusco Kecken
Joy Kecken is currently a Co-Executive Producer on Freeform's soon-to-be-released series, Motherland. She has also written and directed for the critically acclaimed HBO series, The Wire. She was a supervising producer on the second season of Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger and a consulting producer on the award-winning feature documentary, The Biggest Little Farm, that has made a historic round of appearances at Telluride, TIFF, Sundance and Berlin. Both projects will have their premieres this Spring.
Joy’s scripts as a writer-producer on BET’s anthology hip-hop series, Tales, obtained the greenlight that put the popular first season into production. She has also received two WGA commendations for her contributions to television, which include her episodes for Homicide: Life on the Street.
Her script for All-In was honored by the WGA for the Feature Access Project Award and received mention in IndieWire from executive producer Christina Sibul.
Joy’s additional projects have been optioned by Lifetime, E1 and the BBC Scotland. Her shorts and feature documentary screened at over 30 film festivals and appeared on Showtime and BET.
Scott Kecken
Scott Kecken is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, director, producer through his company The Film Foundry. Scott directed during the last season of the critically acclaimed show, “The Wire” on HBO.
His debut short Louisville won 11 awards including Best Short at the New York Independent International Film Festival and aired on BET, PBS, Aspire and Showtime. As director and producer on Woman Hollering Creek, the film won Best Maryland Film at the Annapolis Film Festival. Scott’s feature documentary We Are Arabbers, was funded by major grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and Maryland Humanities Council to document the African American folk culture of the remaining horse-and-wagon produce hucksters in Baltimore.
Through the roots of his visual anthropologist lens, Scott continues to develop diverse, socially redeeming narratives and documentaries; The Park, a limited series set in Berkeley during the late 1960’s, and 13 Meals, a documentary series that reveals the intersection of food, culture, and place. Scott just completed writing his debut feature, Gentrify, a dark comedy that answers the question, “What would you do for cheap rent?”
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