Justin Ambrosino is an award-winning filmmaker, graduate of the American Film Institute, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, Sapporo Artist-in-Residence, as well as a Kyoto Filmmaker Lab Fellow.
His career highlights include the short film, "The 8th Samurai", which qualified for the Oscars in 2009 and screened during Akira Kurosawa’s 100th Anniversary Tour, as well as "Hungry for Love" which won the Grand Prix (presented by jury president Jean Paul Gaultier) at the Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival in 2015.
Most recently, Ambrosino produced and directed the music video "Running on Empathy", starring Steve Guttenberg, for Japanese band mishmash * aimmee isobe.
In his off time, Ambrosino is a mentor at the Ghetto Film School and the AFI White House Student Film Festival.