Maria Gargiulo

Maria Gargiulo is an Emmy award winning writer-director. Her work has appeared on PBS, Fox, CBS and many international film festivals . A graduate of the American Film Institute and Stanford University, she was one of the first Nicholl Screenwriting Fellows. Her narrative awards include LA's TVFest Best Drama (The Collectors) and the USA Festival Best Short (Got 2 Come Up). Working in both narrative and documentary, her work has often focussed on minority communities including Full Circle, (Native American History), Garments for One Another, (Muslim Americans), The Year of My Japanese Cousin (a punk rock comedy) and more. She has written for the Discovery Channel, directed for Fox’s America's Most Wanted and been a PBS series producer (The Meaning of Food). She has taught screenwriting and production in both a university and a prison system.