Robert Manganelli

Robert Manganelli Is a filmmaker residing in Los Angeles, CA. He is currently in pre-production on a film entitled, "Man in the Maze," executive produced by Alexander Payne (Academy Award - "Sideways" and "The Descendants"). Robert's production company is also adapting a novel by TM Wright, "Strange Seed" into a motion picture, screenplay by Tony Schillaci. Relativity Studios in Los Angeles has recently optioned Robert's reality-based television series, "Miss Mobile Home" which is an expose on trailer park culture across America. He owned his first darkroom at the age of seven. By age thirteen, his photographs toured over thirty countries through the Photographic Society of America. In 1983, he graduated Magna Cum Laude, from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photographic Illustration. Among his numerous exhibits at home and abroad, he was selected to participate in a group show, "Pennsylvania Photographers" curated by Weson Naef, curator photographic prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert worked as a photojournalist in Washington DC from '83-'85. Some notable clients were Washingtonian Magazine, The Washington Weekly, and he was Senator Ted Kennedy's, "inside the beltway" personal photographer. This is when he transitioned into filmmaking by making his first film, "3.23.85" - a self portrait drawn from a selection of phone messages that were collected over a two year span. He later received a Masters Degree from UCLA Film School. As a graduate student at UCLA, he wrote and directed the award winning short film, "Listen Carefully" which was selected for numerous film festivals including: Sundance, AFI, Haifa Israel, Porto Portugal, Cork Ireland, CINE Golden Eagle, Critics Choice/Peoples Choice - Tokyo, The Columbus Award and the Spotlight Award - UCLA Alumni. He was subsequently chosen to participate in the Writers and Directors Labs at Robert Redford's, Sundance Institute (6 chosen from over 3,000 applicants) where he fully developed his screenplay, "Seeing in the Dark" ("After Image" 2001). The film starred John Mellencamp, Louise Fletcher (Academy award - "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest") and Terrylene. It screened at Sundance and was picked up by Miramax for domestic distribution and Intermedia for International. Excerpts of Robert's writing can be found in Lew Hunter's best selling book "Screenwriting 434." Lew wrote that Robert's work is not, "Lawrence of Arabia in scope but is Tennessee Williams in depth." Currently, Robert has returned to his hometown and is spearheading the effort to build a motion picture, television and imaging science studio located in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The technology blueprint for studio is delineated by his patent-pending, "Media Management System."