Writer/Director/Producer's Bio Along with a Junior semester abroad at La Universidad Catolica in La Paz, Bolivia, John received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University (Political Theory) and an MFA Degree in Media Arts Production from the City College of New York. The accomplishment John is most proud of is that he has traveled to 47 of the United States. |
Film/Video/Theater
*"Mama's Boys" Directed by Arvid Cristina-48 Hour Film Festival (2007); 5 minutes (DV)-Fiction
(Producer)
*"Survivor-The Real Deal" (2007); 15 minutes (DV)-Non-Fiction Mississippi Post-Katrina Documentary (Producer/Director)
*"Substance" (DV short recently completed; "Calling-card short"); (Writer/Director/Co-Producer)-Fiction
*Dobbs Ferry Mayor's Office (2003); (Producer/Camera Operator
for Production with Video Switcher)
*"La Fenix" Mexican Inquisition Off-Broadway play written
by Susan Tammany/directed by Joel Froomkin (2002); (Props Manager)
*"Seventeen Magazine Showcase" A V-Plex
Production (2002); (Multi-Camera Shoot Production Assistant)
*"Rigoletto" Giuseppe Verdi opera performed by the Regina
Opera House (2002); (Assistant Stage Director)
*"Frida" Directed by Julie Taymor (2002); 120 minutes
(35mm Film)-Fiction (Office Intern)
*"In the Woods" Directed by Erin Muldoon. (2001); 4
minutes (Digital Video)-Fiction (Associate Producer)
*"Sleeping Beauty" (2001); 5 minutes (Digital Video)-Fiction
(Director)
*"A Poem" Directed by Eunjoo Yi. (2001); 17 minutes
(16mm Color Negative)-Fiction (Associate Producer)
*"We Are Family" (2000); 10 minutes (Digital Video)-Industrial
Video (Co-Director/Co-Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Editor)
*"Del
Fuego" (2000); 30 minutes (16mm Color Negative)-Fiction
(Writer/Director/Co-Producer)
*"Untitled (Atsuko's Dream)" (1999) 2:50 (16mm Color
Negative)-Experimental Fiction (Writer/Director)
*"Only in My Dreams"(1999); 4: 39 (16mm B&W)-Fiction
(Writer/Director)-Music by Big Muff (Grammy award-winner Itaal
Shur)
*"Carpetburn" (1999); 5 minutes (16mm B&W)-Fiction
(Writer/Assistant Director)
*"Hotel 7" (1998); 1 minute (Hi-8)-Experimental (Cinematography)
*"DrugmercialB" (1998); 1 minute (Hi-8)-Experimental
(Cinematography)
*"Del Agua" (1998); 4 minutes (Hi-8)-Fiction (Writer/Director)
*"Heaven or Las Vegas"(1998); 3:57 (Hi-8)-Experimental
(Cinematography/Editing)
Additional Video Production Jobs (References/Reel Furnished
Upon Request)
* TopSpin Creative/Japan's
Nippon TV , Tobin Productions, Precision Video/Femme Productions, Boom Digital, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Japan's Gazeta USA/TV ASAHI, Rainbow Media's MagRack, Orleans Parish
Criminal Sheriff's Office, Louisiana Art Works, Film Design, Telemundo's KGLA, Changing A Generation Baptist Church DVD, Motiva, New Orleans Firefighters Calendar, Louisiana Crafts Guild "World Cultural Economic Forum" DVD, TV Asia-Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's Inauguration, Louisiana Modular,Tulane Health Sciences Center
Fiction Synopses
*From deep in the Lone Star state, "Substance" centers on a trio of northern rockers, Trippy, Jake, and Zoe, headed to an outdoor music festival who become stranded in Dallas for 3 days when their drive-away car breaks down. There the band meets Dave, a member of the city's nouveau riche and his dirt-poor buddy, Mark, and eventually get caught up in the plans of the scheming Texans discovering a city where everyone is trying to f!#% themselves to a better future. (Copyrighted & WGA-East, R01074-00, In Pre-Production)
*"Rutta di la Fortuna (Wheel of Fortune)" is a passionate love story set in New Orleans of Alex, a young American drifter/sculptor and Beatriz, an Italian celebrity looking to escape the attention of stardom. Eight years after the affair, Beatriz has disappeared and is presumed to be dead and Alex comes to New Orleans for the truth embarking on a journey that will carry him throughout southern Louisiana. (Copyrighted & WGA-East, 139741-00)
*"The Arnold Chronicles" (aka "Travels with Arnold and Charlie") is a 1955 period series that follows the random journeys of two post-Korean War veterans, Arnold and Charlie, as they journey through the small towns and emerging cities of the 1950s American South (Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico) (Copyrighted & Registered with Writers Guild of America-West, 872293 ).
*"Hammerskin"-A populist South American dictator creates an anti-Western uprising amongst his countrys indigenous population that threatens to de-stabilize the entire region. When he begins experimenting on his enemies with a volatile hallucinogenic once hailed as an antidote to all violence, an embittered former CIA scientist travels to the area to both uncover the secrets of the wunderdrug and the cause of his own debilitated condition." (WGA-West #954826)
*"Del Fuego" is a love story about a man without a job and a woman with a day and night job. After former Wall Street analyst Javier "Jav" Gutierrez is laid off from his former analyst position at a renowned investment bank and he and his sister find themselves homeless, he descends into an addiction with the synthetic drug "burn" and a torrid love affair with a double-identity Asian Cabaret dancer as sinister thugs plot fiery destruction around them. (Copyrighted & WGA-East, 127814-00)
Documentary Proposals
*"A National Disgrace-Homeless Veterans in America" is an exploration of one of the largest homeless groups in America, combat veterans. Film/Digital Video-Documentary
*Currently the public craves realistic television, and they get it in numerous forms such as: "real world" young adult shows which depict the social and developmental angst of becoming an adult, and "real-life" shows where groups face risk/reward and survival tests. "Worker's World" is a real-life portrayal series of intelligent mature adults with real lives, and real responsibilities, in a battle for personal success and true survival. Unlike many efforts by the media to portray any number of job descriptions, our series will seek to do more- it will delve into the work people really do, and what workers really think about life, both on and off the job. (Copyrighted & co-opted by A&E).