MEET THE FILM TEAM

  • Producer, Director, Writer

    Stephen Soucy is a film director at Modernist |Film and produces theater via Stephen Soucy Productions. MERCHANT IVORY, is his first feature-length documentary. MERCHANT IVORY will be released theatrically, domestically and worldwide, by Cohen Media Group. Other film work includes the short animated film, RICH ATMOSPHERE: THE MUSIC OF MERCHANT IVORY FILMS, and the short narrative films, A GIFTED AMATEUR and SLANT. Stephen is co-lead producer of the Broadway-bound, Romy and Michele The Musical and lead producer of the Off-Broadway-bound, MAURICE stage play. Film projects in development include: the short film, REGGIE ROSE, adapted from a story by David Ebershoff, and ORIENTATION, an original feature screenplay.

  • Editor, Writer, Producer

    Jon Hart is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker with a specialty in profiles of artists and designers, including work for Sotheby’s and the New York Public Library with the production company Surrender Pictures. In 2018, he directed On Location with James Ivory, part of a series of architecture-related films for PBS, Design in Mind.

  • Composer

    Ryan Homsey is a versatile, award-winning American composer, equally at home writing for instrumental and choral ensembles, theater, dance, and film. His background in classical, electroacoustic, and popular music draws inspiration from his history as a professional ballet dancer. His works have been performed by JACK Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Access Contemporary Music, and ensemble mise-en at such venues as the Taipei Cultural Center, the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, HERE Arts, and National Sawdust. Ryan holds a B.M. from SUNY Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music—where he subsequently taught for fifteen years—and a M.M. from New York University. www.ryanhomsey.com

  • Post Production Supervisor & Sound Mixer

    Adam Scott is an audio producer from New York. He writes music and works as a sound designer for Paramount and ShiftWave. He also regularly collaborates with the Santa Barbara Center for Arts and Technology developing generative audio software for multimedia exhibitions. www.transcodeandrender.com

  • Music Supervisor

    Originally from Texas with a background in classical piano, Joe Guthrie began supervising music for film and television in Los Angeles in 1999. He has since supervised music for over 200 episodes of TV on networks including FOX, ABC, WB and CW as well as feature films for studios such as Touchstone, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Sundance and Warner Brothers. Recent work includes the series, Filthy Rich, starring Kim Cattrall (Fox/2020) and the feature film, Breaking News in Yuba County, with Allison Janney (MGM/2021). Upcoming documentaries include A Case for Love (2023) and Merchant Ivory (2023).