John M. Fasano                 

At the time of his death in 2014 John Fasano had over 25 years experience with more than 50 credits on feature films and prime time television as a writer, director or producer.

His writing background includes the films Another 48 Hrs., Universal Soldier: The Return, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, and Alien 3, as well as story development for Alien Vs. Predator, Flushed Away, Ex-1, Marvel Comics' Werewolf by Night, Sniper Reloaded, Hostel: Part III and Sniper Legacy. 

John's television projects include The Hunchback (for which he received a WGA nomination for best teleplay), F/X The Series, Mean Streak, The Legend Of Butch & Sundance, The Hunley, Saving Jessica Lynch, the Tom Selleck hit Stone Cold, Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone,  Holiday Switch and Hannah's Law. 

His directing credits include the television movies Murder at The Presidio and A Family Lost as well as multiple episodes for the first and second seasons of the children's action show Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight. He has also worked in New Media by creating and writing the Sony/Crackle series Woke Up Dead starring Jon Heder.
 
As a producer, he was involved with the films Darkness Falls, Rapid Fire, Ginostra, Tombstone, According to Occam's Razor and Cargo. 

John began his film career unofficially at the age of 8 when he was asked to take coffee to Ben Gazarra on the set of John Cassavettes'  Husbands while it was shooting in his hometown of Port Washington, New York. Strongly bitten by the film making bug, John immediately started making 8mm films using armatured clay and Aurora models.  His first official film jobs came while he was attending Paul D. Schreiber High School, working on "industrial" films for IBM. During this time John was also becoming a regularly published artist, making public appearances with the National Cartoonist's Society.

After graduation from high school John continued his creative pursuits at the State University of New York, Purchase, where he studied film. While attending college, John was also employed as the Film Research Editor for Time/Life's national publication TV Cable Week.

John graduated from SUNY, Purchase in 1984 and began working as a freelance magazine editor and art director for such disparate titles as Muscle and Beauty, Race Car & Driver, Wrestling Power and OUI magazines. At this time he also created the artwork for legendary grindhouse films such as Tenement (Slaughter in the South Bronx and Driller.

While completing an average of two magazine editions a month, he returned to his one true love, film. John produced and directed the horror films Rock 'n Roll Nightmare in 1987 and Black Roses in 1988.  Both films are now cult horror classics.