Julio Vincent Gambuto grew up in a large Italian family on New York’s Staten Island, where aunts, uncles, and cousins gathered often around mom’s seafoam-green formica kitchen table for Entenmann’s crumb cake to tell stories, argue about the Mets, and play cards with the neighbors. After seven years on merit scholarship at Staten Island Academy, he left for Harvard, where he graduated with honors earing a BA degree in English and American literature and language. He completed his training as a film director at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he was honored as an Annenberg Fellow. He is the author of “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting”—a super-viral essay series on Medium, where he is a weekly contributor. He is also a filmmaker and has written and produced film and television content for Nickelodeon, PBS, E! Entertainment, Stone & Company Entertainment, Kerner Entertainment, and James Franco’s Rabbit Bandini. He lives in New York City and is the author of Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!. |
