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| Jack Venturo - Writer, Director, Editor, President of Moviegod Productions Entertainment. |
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Jack was accepted in the magnet program The Pinellas County Center for the Arts (P.C.C.A) at Gibbs High School in 1996 as a Visual Artist. While in P.C.C.A. he pursued a wide range of visual arts including photography, oil painting, welding, rendering, sketching, design, sculpture art history and film history.
Jack continued his sculptures, painting and artwork and held an art exhibition in March of 2000, entitled "Fear", which dealt with horror and its portrayal in motion pictures.
The VHS sales of "Lost in the Wilderness" surpassed the sales of both Stanley movies. Jack was a fulltime high school student at Gibbs and a part time cameraman at The Home Shopping Network. While working there he wrote four projects including movies and cartoon shows. Jack graduated High School on June of 2000 and on December 24 Jack packed up everything he owned and moved to Studio City, CA.
"The Shortest Day" did not win Best Picture but it was awarded a special Archie Award:
In June of 2004 Jack created his own personal website, www.Jackorama.com; which is a portfolio of all his art work from photography to paintings and sculptures. In December of that year Jack was working in Simi Valley where he met Eydie, they quickly became great friends. In 2005 Jack moved from Van Nuys to Simi Valley to be closer to work. In March of 2006 Jack took a much needed year long sabbatical from filmmaking, writing and web building. He spent his personal time off hiking, mountain climbing, sight seeing, reading, soul searching, meditating, resting and learning about himself, life, people. In October of 2006 Jack and Eydie started dating. On February 16, 2007 Jack was ordained by Rose Ministries and became a Reverend capable of performing Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals and other spiritual ceremonies, the same month Jack became a set intern for Shadow Machine Films building miniature sets and props for "Robot Chicken" on Cartoon Network's [adult swim]. His work can be seen on www.Jackorama.com. W hile working on Robot Chicken Jack learned more about miniatures, stop motion and cartoons. On August 17, 2007 Jack became a citizen of The United States of America, being sworn in at the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles. The very next month on September 24th Jack and Eydie discovered they where pregnant and 9 months later on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 4:35 PM they welcomed their daughter Athena Phoenix Venturo into the world. She weighed 8lbs 5oz and meassured 20 inches long; more pictures of Athena and her life are available on Athena's page HERE. Athena is Eydie's 4th and Jack's 1st daughter.
"The Death of Tempo" is a drama, which is very different from previous films by MPE it finished production in March 2009. Post production was completed on September 1, 2009 which is the same day that Jack and Eydie got married. With the help of several contributors Jack was able to finalize the post production and release the fild on DVD. This time around Jack wanted to make sure everyone knew the process of his filmmaking, his passion and his labor so he documented every production day as a behind the scenes video diary. Jack Venturo's Production Diaries can be seen on the official website and on the special features of the DVD. As soon as the movie was on DVD Jack started the film festival submission process and documented what happens AFTER the release of the movie as well in the Tempo Update Vlogs. He wanted to show everyone that once the movie is finished, the work for an independent filmmaker continues with setbacks, perrils and triumphs; such as not geting accepted into festivals, as well as getting accepted into the Crystal Palace International Film Festival in London and being nominated as a finalist. The movie was also accepted into the 10Squared Film Festival in Fullerton, CA where it won:
After the ceremony was over the festival had a raffle and gave away prizes to the audience, Jack quickly donated a DVD of "The Death of Tempo" to the raffle and a very happy audience member won the film he voted for. The movie is available for purchase at the Studio Store!
When Jack is not working on his projects he spends time with his beloved wife Eydie (Pictured middle), Hali 16 (Left), Isabella 8 (Bottom Left) Xochitl 7 (Bottom Right) and Athena 2. To be continued................... |
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