Joe Bartone is a WGA West guild member. Winner of 18 awards in filmmaking, screenwriting, and composing; 19 finalist placements; 8 semi-finalist placements; and a member of the Warner Bros. team that took the 2013 Technical Emmy for innovative digital delivery systems. His screenplay, Worst Night Ever was chosen as the 3rd best horror screenplay at Slamdance 2021. He was among the 2015 best new jazz artists for the album Master Plan B under Thelonious Dub. from JazzFM - the top syndicated jazz radio programming for NPR.

Time Stamps:
0:00 - From Musician to Sound Mixer to Writer/Director
1:26 - The Most Hated In School
4:48 - Composing and Creating Music
6:47 - Sound for Film– Failing Miserably
7:57 - Learning from Terrible Directors
9:00 - Lyrics are Dialogue and Music is the Camera
10:00 - Not Commercially Designed
12:10 - Learning How to Cut and Paste
13:54 - Screenwriting Later In Life
16:02 - Evolving your Art Form
17:29 - A Sense of the Truth