Growing up in Vermont, Joe acquired his love for photography and filmmaking as a kid; shooting snowboarding videos with friends and editing them at the local public access station. Realizing this was his passion he went on to study film and video at Hampshire College. Hampshire's unique curriculum allowed Joe to shoot his thesis film while traveling across India, interviewing scholars and politicians. After graduating and a brief stint building boats, he moved to New York City; learning the ropes of the film industry working at rental houses, like Bexel and Panavision. In the years since, Joe has worked on feature films, television shows and festivals, mostly serving in a technical capacity.
Joe's work as a DIT, Engineer and Technical Supervisor has helped quench his thirst for travel, he developed in his college days. In 2007, Joe worked in Pakistan as the DIT on the Urdu language film, Ramchand Pakistani. This film went on to win several awards and screened at countless festivals. Most notably, it won the Audience Choice Award at the New Delhi Film Festival and had its US premiere at Tribeca FF. The follow year, Josef produced the horror film Destined to be Ingested on location in the British Virgin Islands. In 2012, at the Summer Olympic Games in London, Joe assisted in the build and engineering of a multi-camera system for Olympic Broadcast Services' global feed from the Millennium Dome. And although not in England, Joe worked for the BBC, years before on a program called "One Week to Save Your Marriage". This show shot across the U.S., based in a studio built in a 40' RV, which he also drove! After that run, feeling unsettled in NYC, Joe moved to San Francisco and worked on a number of films, commercials and live events with Studio B Films and DTC Grip & Electric.
Pursuing more artistic and community-based projects, Joe has served as the Technical Manager for Rooftop Films and sits on the board of the Oakland Underground Film Festival. He co-founded Nine37 Productions; an artist collective whose efforts help emerging artists exhibit their films, photos and music. With Nine37, he produced the Five Town Massive, an annual arts festival and published photo books, CDs and DVD collections.
In 2011, he moved back to Brooklyn, where he currently lives with his wife; and works on television shows, tries to develop new projects with the old Ramchand crew and teaches workshops at DCTV and CUNY. When he is not working he can be found flipping thru vinyl records in Brooklyn or snowboarding up in Vermont.
