Joe Petricca

Film / Graduate Film

Biography

Joe Petricca is a writer, filmmaker and educator.

As a screenwriter, he has had screenplays optioned, won screenplay competitions, and adapted books and true-life stories for Academy and Cannes award winning directors and producers. He was a member of the writing staff for a sitcom-style language learning Virtual Reality series. And he wrote intros and outros for the late Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies. Joe holds an MFA in Screenwriting from (AFI) the American Film Institute and a BFA in Film Production from (NYU)New York University.

Joe has taught at Art Center since 2022. He is the Chief Academic Advisor for the IAFM, a film school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Additionally, he has taught/spoken at film festivals, trade shows and colleges around the world (New York, London, India, Japan and China) and been a faculty member at Los Angeles City College, New York Film Academy and Art Division (a non-profit created by painter Dan McCleary). He volunteer-taught screenwriting and filmmaking to at-risk Los Angeles teenagers for seven years.

Recently, Joe has curated a number of film series for the Norton Simon Museum in support of exhibitions. He served as a guest curator and artist for the LARIVERX social media pages and is now included in their archives.

In 2007, he was awarded a Chevalier of Academic Palms from the French government for contributions in Los Angeles to French cinema.

Classes

• FILM-121-01: Directing 1
• FILM-563-02: Visual Narrative Workshop
• FILM-300-01: Mid-Program Review
• FILM-455C-01: Graduating Review
• FILM-575-01: Mid-Program Review
• FILM-699-01: Thesis Continuation
• FILM-655C-01: Graduating Review
• FILM-690-01: Film Internship
• FILM-490-01: Film Internship
• FILM-390-01: Film Internship