Born in New York, Johnny Taranto is a director, screen writer, and production designer, dividing his time between Brooklyn and Stockholm.

He graduated with honors (BFA/Fine Arts) from Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Cinema Arts, with a concentration in Directing, at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. His work is darkly humorous, gritty, kinetic, and combines a general sense of apathy colored by childlike wonder.