The Team
Director | Producer
Alison Crouse is a filmmaker and photographer living in Philadelphia Her work encompasses still and moving image, relying on the unique properties of each to explore the intersections of time and motion, observation and reflection, and character and history.
Her narrative short, A Song of Fishes screened at the Woodstock Film Festival, Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Iris Prize, Mix Brasil, and the GAZE – Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. It was distributed by Indie Media Entertainment. Her photographic series, Devastation Portraits, captured performances of despair staged in public spaces, and has been featured in ICPConcerned: Global Images for a Global Crisis, BuzzFeed, Metro.uk, the NPR Picture Show, and InVivo magazine. Tag Sale, her newest documentary short, will have its North American premiere at DOC NYC. Alison received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her MFA from Temple University.
Alison Crouse
Director of Photography
Tom Quinn is a Gotham and Independent Spirit Award nominee for his debut film, THE NEW YEAR PARADE, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance and screened at festivals and venues including SXSW and MOMA. Tom was listed one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by FILMMAKER MAGAZINE and one of the Ten Young Writer-Directors to Watch by MOVIEMAKER. He was a VFX producer on films including LAWLESS, SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, and THE CHERNOBYL DIARIES. His most recent film, COLEWELL, was developed with support from the Biennale College, IFP, the San Francisco Film Society, and The Sundance Institute before premiering at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film received two Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best Lead Actress for Karen Allen (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK). Tom is an associate professor in the Film & Television program at Drexel University.
Tom Quinn
Editor
Marc D’Agostino (he/him) is an independent filmmaker based in Philadelphia. He recently produced the Netflix documentary The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel, which was among the streamer's top ten films worldwide in its first two weeks on the platform.He produced the four part series Bug Out (2022) for Amazon Studios. He wrote, directed, and edited the pilot for The Source, a sci-fi web series which won Best Drama at the Independent Television Festival and at LATVFestival, where it also won the Fest’s Grand Prize and was developed at Lionsgate. He directed the social-advocacy documentary, Lift the Mask: Portraits of Life with Mental Illness, which won Mental Health America’s Media Award in 2020. As an editor, he cut Ben Kalina’s Shored Up and 9.14 Pictures' Bill Mauldin: If It’s Big Hit It, as well as the shorts Tag Sale (dir. Alison Crouse) and Funny Not Funny, which he also co-directed and premiered at DOCNYC. Marc story-produced the unscripted series Thick Skin for 9.14 and AMC and Plan C for Civilization (premiered DOCNYC, 2025). He has several scripted and documentary projects in development. Marc got his MFA in Film from Temple University.
Marc D’Agostino
CREDITS
Director | Producer
Alison Crouse
Director of Photography
Tom Quinn
Editor
Marc D’Agostino
Location Sound Mixer
Dan Mazur
Additional Sound
Jen Schneider
Field Producers
Meg Kassabaum
Jen Schneider
Additional Cinematography
Alison Crouse
Marc D’Agostino
Production Assistants
Emaleigh Doley
Jessica MacLeod
Director’s statement
Tag Sale was prompted by an absurdly epic “tag sale” at my parents’ continuing care community in Vermont. When my mom became chair of the annual event, it took over our phone calls. Conversations about “collection days” and personal objects led to a nagging and borrowed nostalgia for other peoples’ belongings. The more we spoke the more I recognized a unique juxtaposition. An engaged community of older adults was mobilizing around the donations of other residents who had downsized or died within the past year. And yet, what I imagined would be a melancholy process was instead filled with levity. By speaking candidly with residents, allowing the camera to linger in contemplative moments, and then following the bustle of the event itself, it is my hope that Tag Sale holds the poignant tension between how we live and how we let go.
“I have always been a collector of small, inconsequential things: a little brass lama, a miniature kaleidoscope, a stone. Maybe I anticipate forgetting.”
— Alison Crouse