Mariano Baino is an award-winning film director and screenwriter hailed as “one of the great torch-bearers for expressionistic genre cinema” by Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival, where his film DARK WATERS won the Prix Du Public (Audience Prize). He's also the recipient of the prestigious Vincent Price Award for Outstanding Contribution to Fantastic Cinema and many other accolades. Recently, the US government granted Mariano Baino a special green card only given to artists of 'extraordinary ability'. His film work has been compared to Bergman's by La Repubblica (Italy's major newspaper)...more