John Gianvito is a U.S. filmmaker, film curator, academic and movie critic.
Background
Gianvito attended the
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...
where he earned a
BFA, and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, where he earned a
MS.
He has worked as a curator with the
Harvard Film Archive
The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film, the HFA houses a c ...
, and is currently an associate professor with the Department of Visual and Media Arts at
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...
.
Filmography
A partial list of the films by John Gianvito:
* ''The Direct Approach'' (1978, short film)
* ''The Flower of Pain'' (1983)
* ''Address Unknown'' (1985, co-directed)
* ''What Nobody Saw'' (1990, short)
* ''
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein'' (2001)
* ''Puncture Wounds
eptember 11' (2002, short film)
* ''Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind'' (2007, short documentary)
* ''Vapor Trail (Clark)'' (2010)
* ''Far From Afghanistan'' (2012, co-directed, documentary)
* ''Wake (Subic)'' (2015, documentary)
* ''Her Socialist Smile'' (2020, documentary)
[2020: Currents ]New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center (FLC). Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, it is ...
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Living people
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
American film directors
American film producers
American male screenwriters
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Emerson College faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)