John Badalamenti

John Badalamenti was born and raised in Queens and comes from a family of musicians and actors; his father Steve was a jazz trumpet player, his uncle Angelo Badalamenti is a musical composer for movies and TV, and his younger brother Stephen is an actor in NYC.

John was trained in color retouching and photographic techniques at a graphic arts trade house in NYC serving Madison Avenue ad agencies. He then moved on to architectural photography, video, and drone-aerial work before starting his documentary film company in Arizona, Desert Horse Media.

While John enjoyed architectural photography, he got a real buzz doing property & aerial-drone video work. One thing led to another, and he found that independent documentary film work was his real passion. John moved to the greater Phoenix Arizona area four years ago from the East Coast and embraced the documentary film world.

John has two published feature documentary films, Horse Heroes (still paying on Amazon Prime Video) and Saving The Ice - recently published. He is working on his 3rd film project.