Bart Mastronardi is a director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

 and producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 for his feature length movie Vindication

Vindication (film)

Vindication is independent film maker Bart Mastronardi's feature length psychological horror movie, based on his award winning short.. A morality tale about a young man whose attempt at suicide fails causing his guilt to manifest into reality...

. He resides in New York City.

Life

Bart was born in Queens, NY on May 23.

Bart is an independent filmmaker where his work with a talented cast and crew led to the creation of Vindication. Vindication is Bart’s directorial feature film debut based on his short movie. Having been a DP for numerous movies, shorts and commercials, Bart wanted to go back to his directing roots this time independently financing and multi-tasking this production to create a chilling coming-of-age psychological horror movie. Learning from other great independent filmmakers and movies that shot with a low budget style, Bart mixed those elements with classic literature ranging from Shakespeare’s tragedies, to Ovid’s Metamorphosis and Dante’s The Inferno, and mixed with inspiration from Clive Barker

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...

 notably the first Hellraiser

Hellraiser

Hellraiser is a 1987 British and American horror film based upon the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Hellraiser explores themes of sadomasochism and morality under duress and fear. The film spawned a series of sequels...

movie where Bart was able to create the mad and macabre world of the film's protagonist, Nicolas Bertram, found in Vindication

Vindication (film)

Vindication is independent film maker Bart Mastronardi's feature length psychological horror movie, based on his award winning short.. A morality tale about a young man whose attempt at suicide fails causing his guilt to manifest into reality...

.

When Bart was twelve years old his father took him to see Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 slasher film. It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise. The popularity and financial success of the film, which grossed over $32 million,...

. It was then Bart decided to make movies. Graduating Hunter College with a B.A. Degree in Film Studies, Bart became a full time teacher in English, Film and also Photography; he began to teach and share with his students about his passion for the visual arts while pursuing and working on his own projects. While teaching, Bart directed numerous theater productions which include A Christmas Carol; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; Shakespeare’s Macbeth; and the comedy, Sort of a Christmas Carol. Bart went back to study film, but this time he devoted his time studying cinematography at Rockport College’s Maine Film Workshops where he studied extensively with some of Hollywood’s most professional cinematographers including ASC

American Society of Cinematographers

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 winners and nominees.

Bart credits some of his major artistic influences who shaped his life and visions to be most notably Clive Barker

Clive Barker

Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...

, Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...

, Dante Aligheri, Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...

, William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

, Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

, Rembrandt, Gustav Dore, John Dugdale

John Dugdale

John Dugdale may refer to:* John Dugdale , British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament for Nuneaton 1886–1892...

, Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez

Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet...

, Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

, Conrad Hall ASC

Conrad Hall

Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC was an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to...

, Ellen Kuras ASC

Ellen Kuras

Ellen Kuras ASC is an American cinematographer and director. She has collaborated several times with directors Michel Gondry and Spike Lee.-Filmography:*"Public Speaking" *Away We Go...

 Daniel Pearl ASC

Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...

 and too many others to mention.

Work

As a working cinematographer credits include Alan Rowe Kelly’s award winning feature movie The Blood Shed; Bravo TV’s Shear Genius (NYC casting); the NYC footage for Behind the Chair.com’s documentary Unlocking The Hope featuring and sponsored by legendary hair designer Vidal Sasson. Alan Rowe Kelly’s horrifying short film A Far Cry From Home, which is featured in the Gallery of Fear along with additional photographer for Anthony Sumner’s By Her Hand; other DP credits include numerous short films, music videos and commercials.

Currently Bart's work on director Stolis Hadjichalambous' action thriller Crossed

Crossed (film)

Crossed is independent film maker Stolis Hadjicharalambous's feature length action/thriller movie. It is a story of truth, power, and revenge in a dangerous crime underworld of assassins.- Plot :...

, which has won Bart rave reviews within the independent film crowd for his cinematography work on the independent action film.

Mastronardi was scheduled to tour his feature film, Vindication

Vindication (film)

Vindication is independent film maker Bart Mastronardi's feature length psychological horror movie, based on his award winning short.. A morality tale about a young man whose attempt at suicide fails causing his guilt to manifest into reality...

, in 2009 at film festivals and most notably the Fangoria and other horror conventions to promote the chilling psychological horror movie.

When not busy with his photography or filming, Bart teaches Camera, Lighting, and director's craft at the New York Film Academy and he is proud to be a native New Yorker.