Director 70 years old

John Gianvito

Staten Island, New York, USA

John Gianvito is an independent film director based in Boston, where he also holds an Associate Professorship in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He has taught at numerous major universities in New England and currently sits on the Board of Directors... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

4 titles

Wake: Subic

John Gianvito 2015 4h 37m

First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the ﬁrst part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) was released in 2010.

Vapor Trail (Clark)

John Gianvito 2010 4h 24m

An investigation into the ecological disaster caused by a US military base on the Philippines – and its victims, their world. A humble act of solidarity, a defiant work of remembrance, a rallying cry to rise and resist, a cinematic prose poem.

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

John Gianvito 2008 58m

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein

John Gianvito 2001 2h 48m

A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind).