Joseph Pellegrino
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | I studied film at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA, and received a BS in Digital Filmmaking. I was awarded the college's first ever "Excellence in Screenwriting" award upon graduation, and have been invited back as guest lecturer in many screenwriting courses. I've directed a short film, BEST PERFORMANCE, based on one of my scripts. I am currently studying at the American Film Institute Conservatory as a Screenwriting Fellow, and am working on several feature-length screenplays both inside and outside of my classwork. |
| Interests | Screenwriting, Movies, Cinema, Politics, Movies & Politics, Human rights, Anti-conservative politics, Music, Classical music, Bach, Cello, Weight lifting, Working out, Gym, Film scores, Painting, Drawing, Writing |
| Favorite Movies | The Decalogue, Come and See, Salo, Vertigo, Cries and Whispers, Fat Girl, Dans Paris, Stalker, Prospero's Books, Casablanca, Psycho, Vivre sa vie, 3 Women, Small Change, Persona, The Double Life of Veronique, A Short Film About Killing, Notorious, Nights of Cabiria, 36 fillette, The Garden, On Dangerous Ground, M, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Les amours imaginaires, Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque, Crash (1996), Gone with the Wind, Dial M for Murder, Through a Glass Darkly, His Girl Friday, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Three Colors: Blue, Three Colors Trilogy, Summer Hours, Nixon, Night of the Living Dead, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, Dancer in the Dark, Mississippi Mermaid, The Exorcist, Capote, Andrei Rublev, The Flight of the Red Balloon, Metropolis |
| Favorite Music | Bernard Herrmann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Alex Beaupain, Two Door Cinema Club, Zbigniew Preisner, Jay Brannan, Wojciech Kilar, Danny Elfman, Georges Delerue, Popol Vuh, Gheorghe Zamfir |
| Favorite Books | The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age, A Heart at Fire's Center, Double Lives Second Chances, Tennessee Williams, Hannibal, Books on cinema, Lillian Hellman, Waiting for Godot, Ingmar Bergman, Peter Cowie, Annette Insdorf, Night of the Iguana, Suddenly Last Summer, Biographies |