John Vizzusi

Sights and Sounds Films
Filmmaker

Apopka, Florida

Member Since:
September 2014

Last online:
> 2 weeks ago

Invites sent:
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About John

Feature Doc Filmmaker best known for Electric Heart, The Don Ellis Story. Currently Being Hipp, The Jutta Hipp Story. Developing Ida, Behind her Camera as well as The Radium Girls, Glowing in the Dark. Based in Central Florida, Northern California native.

Unique traits: Classic Film buff, Blues Guitarist and Media Writer

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 7"

Weight:
155

Body type:
Slim

Hair:
Medium

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Mediterranean

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Photos

Sights and Sounds Films AVID HD Pro Tools Editing Suite in Central Florida. System built by Core Microsystems, Santa Clara, California.

Videos

Don Ellis - Electric Heart (a Film by John Vizzusi)

Credits

Being Hipp - The Jutta Hipp Story (2014)
Documentary by Sighrs and Sounds Films Producer, Director, Writer
IDA, Behind Her Camera (2014)
Documentary by Sights and Sounds Films Producer, Director, Writer
The Radium Girls, Glowing in the Dark (2014)
Documentary by Sights and Sounds Films Producer, Director, Writer
Electric Heart, Don Ellis (2014)
Documentary by Sights and Sounds Films / Arthaus Musik (Documentary) Producer, Director, Writer Award Winning Feature Documentary Film on the life story of Don Ellis,the man, his times and his music from Sights & Sounds Films re-release 2014 from Arthaus Germany. From Filmmaker John Vizzusi 2014 Library of Congress Special Screening and induction into The Musical Archives
Electric Heart: Don Ellis (2007)
Film (Documentary) Director Don who, you may ask? ELECTRIC HEART -don Ellis is the incredible story of the Man, his Times and the Music of Donald Johnson Ellis 1934-1978. Completely forgotten about in Jazz, Ellis created a "Fusion" between Jazz, Classical and Rock long before anyone else thought of it. His Electric Orchestras still maintain the most complex modern day music ever written, then and now! Pulitzer Winning Composer Gunther Schuller discovered Don Ellis at Boston University in the 1960's and introduced him to Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein hires Ellis as a Soloist for a National Television Show (The Young Peoples Concert) and Ellis was off and running. Known for his strange and odd-metered arrangements, Ellis took Jazz to new heights and never looked back. He was under-Produced and mis-Marketed and even though he was one of Jazz's most exciting acts ever, his music has been completely forgotten about and seldom played on the radio and his music generally speaking is hard to come by. He is truly one of ... Written by John Vizzusi