John Arlotto, director of “DEFACE”
As a fine artist-turned award-winning filmmaker, John’s goal is to bridge the gap between what the eye sees and what the heart feels.
John Arlotto grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, spending much of his youth studying the great works in the nearby National Art Museums of Washington DC. John attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree before evolving to the medium of film. He worked as a professional editor for many years creating artistic, fast-paced work for companies such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Honda Automotive, Honda Motorcycle, Hyundai and The Walt Disney Company.
John then earned his Master of Fine Arts in Film from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where he wrote, directed, edited and produced the short film Deface, which has played in over forty film festivals around the world, won several awards and qualified for Oscar consideration for Best Live Action Short.At the request of the Grand National Party of South Korea, DEFACE was screened at a seminar concerning human rights issues of North Korea for the South Korean National Assembly.
John went on to direct the short film Wounded, starring Joe Manganiello from HBO’s True Blood, which premiered at the Palm Springs Festival of Shorts and won Best Short Film at the Big Island Film Festival. His feature scripts Heart Murmur and Bloodline were both quarter-finalists in the Nicholls Fellowship Screenwriting Competition and his feature script Deface (based on the short film) was a semi-finalist, placing it in the top 130 scripts out of over 6,000 entries.
John continues to work as a director and editor of high impact web and industrial videos and is currently in development on his feature film Bloodline that was recently optioned.John lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
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