Biografia
Joe Maggio is an award-winning writer-director. His work has screened in festivals and museums around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, MoMA, The Museum of the Moving Image, The Paley Center for Media and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
His first film, Virgil Bliss (2001), was nominated for two 2002 Independent Spirit Awards - The John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature under $500,000) and Best Debut Performance (for actor Clint Jordan.)
His second film, Milk + Honey (2003), premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at the 2003 Atlanta Film Festival.
Paper Covers Rock (2008), premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was purchased by IFC Films for worldwide VOD and DVD, and by Showtime for North American cable.
Bitter Feast (2010), premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was released theatrically and on VOD through MPI Media/Dark Sky Films. It was nominated for two Golden Chainsaw Awards (Best Actor, Best Blood FX) by Fangoria Magazine.
The Last Rites of Joe May (2011), was produced in conjunction with Steppenwolf Films of Chicago. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was acquired by Tribeca Films and released theatrically to critical acclaim throughout North America. The late Roger Ebert included The Last Rites of Joe May on his list of best films of 2011.
His sixth feature film, Supermoto (2016), was shot on the prairies of Eastern North Dakota and premiered at the Minneapolis International Film Festival.
He has collaborated with Vincent D'Onofrio on three radio plays, Man on The Ledge (2012) and Ram King (2013), and Cannibals (2015), as part of the Tales From Beyond the Pale series presented by NYC horror impresario Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid.
In 2006, he founded Incidental Films, a production company devoted to making "Incidental Cinema" - ultra-indie films that favor narrative truth and creative freedom above all else.
As of 2022 he is completing work on a feature documentary, Gary from Omaha, about one man's hunt for a mythical creature in the wilds of Oregon's Blue Mountains, and he has just completed the feature film, Bliss, the sequel to his award-winning debut feature, Virgil Bliss (2001), and the second installment in the Virgil Bliss trilogy.
He has taught at NYU in the Film and Dramatic Writing departments, and is on the faculty of Emerson College where he teaches directing.
