Joe Ballarini is an American film director, screenwriter and author.
He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts Television
Director's Program with a degree in film production in 1999.At USC
film school, Ballarini wrote and directed the award-winning
"pre-apocalyptic" film Nuclear Family produced by Michael
Huffington.In 2002, Ballarini sold an original action comedy
screenplay The Spy Next Door to Dimension Films for US $600,000. The
following year he sold the script for a family adventure film titled
The Legendary McClouds to Paramount Pictures with Nickelodeon
producing. He wrote a paranormal kids film Spooks for Miramax as well
as The Blob for Warner Bros. with Jon Peters producing. In 2003,
Ballarini directed a series of nationally broadcast Honda Element
commercials produced by Daniel Dubiecki.Ballarini sold the script to
his feature comedy F+ to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 2004, which he was
also attached to direct. 20th Century Fox also hired Ballarini to
direct Adam Sztykiel's screenplay Ditch Day with State Street
producing.
He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts Television
Director's Program with a degree in film production in 1999.At USC
film school, Ballarini wrote and directed the award-winning
"pre-apocalyptic" film Nuclear Family produced by Michael
Huffington.In 2002, Ballarini sold an original action comedy
screenplay The Spy Next Door to Dimension Films for US $600,000. The
following year he sold the script for a family adventure film titled
The Legendary McClouds to Paramount Pictures with Nickelodeon
producing. He wrote a paranormal kids film Spooks for Miramax as well
as The Blob for Warner Bros. with Jon Peters producing. In 2003,
Ballarini directed a series of nationally broadcast Honda Element
commercials produced by Daniel Dubiecki.Ballarini sold the script to
his feature comedy F+ to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 2004, which he was
also attached to direct. 20th Century Fox also hired Ballarini to
direct Adam Sztykiel's screenplay Ditch Day with State Street
producing.
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