Ray Tintori

Tintori graduated from Wesleyan University in 2006, where he studied film, and from LaGuardia High School in Manhattan in 2001, where he was a studio art major.{{cite web|url=https://cinemablend.com/new/Jonze-Picks-Up-Light-Boxes-For-First-Time-Filmmaker-Ray-Tintori-14128.html|title=Jonze Picks Up Light Boxes For First-Time Filmmaker Ray Tintori|author=Katey Rich|work=CINEMABLEND |date=July 28, 2009|accessdate=2009-07-28|publisher=Cinema Blend}} His father is John Tintori, a film editor and Chair of NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film & Television and his mother is Mary Cybulski, a script supervisor.

Tintori's first two short films were heavily narrated, black & white, fantasy stories featuring numerous whimsical characters. His directorial debut was the 2005 short film Jettison Your Loved Ones, which screened at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival.Bilge Ebiri, [https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/01/filmmaker_ray_tintori_reunites.html Filmmaker "Ray Tintori Reunites Father and Son, Blows Up Earth"], New York, nymag.com, January 3, 2008 New York magazine referred to the film as "a deranged, no-budget sci-fi epic [...] some of the most hypnotic and strange six minutes you’ll ever spend staring at a computer screen." His senior thesis film Death to the Tinman premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival[http://www.thereeler.com/sundance_features/ray_tintori_death_to_the_tinma.php "Ray Tintori, Death to the Tinman"], The Reeler, thereeler.com, January 15, 2007 where it won a short filmmaking award.{{cite web|url=http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sundance-film-festival-awards-2007/|title=Sundance 2007 Awards|author=Andre Soares|date=January 27, 2007|publisher=Alternative Film Guide|accessdate=2009-10-05}}

Tintori directed the music video for the MGMT's single "Time to Pretend". The video garnered attention on MTVu airwaves due to its colorful, psychedelic style.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} Tintori also directed the videos for MGMT's second and third singles, "Electric Feel" and "Kids", respectively. He also directed the videos for The Killers' song "Spaceman" and "Chairlift's "Evident Utensil", which was nominated for an award in the "Breakthrough Video" category at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2009/breakthrough-video/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807002641/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2009/breakthrough-video/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 7, 2009 |publisher=MTV|title=2009 MTV Video Music Awards: Breakthrough Video|accessdate=2009-08-08}}

In July, 2009, Spike Jonze announced that Tintori would be directing Light Boxes, an adaptation of the novel by Shane Jones.{{cite web| url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006546.html?categoryid=13&cs=1| title=Jonze acquires 'Boxes' feature rights| author=Dave McNary|date=July 27, 2009|publisher=Variety|accessdate=2009-07-28}} However, in May 2010, Jonze stated that Tintori was no longer working on the project,{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7126239.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615131616/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7126239.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2011|title=A cure for Aids? Spike Jonze is not joking|author=Tim Teeman |date=May 15, 2010 |publisher=Times Online|accessdate=2011-03-18}} and in June 2010, Shane Jones said the film option had been dropped.{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/culture/2010-06-22/shane-jones-light-boxes/|title=Shedding Light on Shane Jones|author=Laura Van Den Berg|date=June 22, 2010|accessdate=2011-03-18}}

In May, 2010, the Brooklyn Arts Council honored Tintori with a "premature retrospective", screening a number of his short films and other works.{{cite web|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/ray_tintori_is_only_years_old_and_TrN2h84lYF0XfiuXYxc5zH|title=Ray Tintori is only 26 years old — and he gets a retrospective?|author=Meredith Deliso|date=April 27, 2010|accessdate=2011-09-28|publisher=New York Post}}

Tintori worked on Court 13's first feature film Beasts of the Southern Wild as Aurochs and Special Effects Unit Director.{{cite web|url=http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/below-the-line-the-beasts-of-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/|title=Behind the Camera: The Beasts of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'|author=Mekado Murphy|date=November 28, 2012|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2012-11-28}}

Tintori participated in the Sundance Institute's 2013 June Screenwriters Lab with his Untitled Cabal Project,{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/05/sundance-institute-announces-directors-screenwriter-fellows-494058/|title=Sundance Institute Announces Directors & Screenwriter Fellows|author=Dominic Patten|date=May 9, 2013 |accessdate=2014-12-14|publisher=Deadline Hollywood}} and his short film Cabal screened at the 2014 Borscht Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article4468007.html|title=Borscht movie fest spurs a filmmaking boom in South Florida |author=Rene Rodriguez|publisher=Miami Herald|date=December 13, 2014|accessdate=2014-12-14}}

Tintori worked on Approaching the Unknown as Practical SFX Unit Director. Pre-production and filming of the effects sequences took place under the mentorship of Douglas Trumbull at Trumbull Studios in the Berkshire Mountains.{{Cite web|url=https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/making-sci-fi-films-the-old-school-way-in-2016-the-process/574f4dabd8de57672d53d1a7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603232155/https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/making-sci-fi-films-the-old-school-way-in-2016-the-process/574f4dabd8de57672d53d1a7|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 3, 2016|title=Creating Cutting-Edge Sci-Fi with Analog Effects {{!}} The Process|website=Video|language=en|access-date=2019-03-03}}

In 2016, Tintori directed a trailer video for Google's Tilt Brush.{{cite web|url=https://www.shootonline.com/video/director-ray-tintori-m-ss-ng-p-eces-teams-mpc-tilt-brush-trailer|title=Director Ray Tintori of m ss ng p eces Teams With MPC On Tilt Brush Trailer|author=Robert Goldrich|date=May 11, 2016|accessdate=2016-05-15}}

In 2017, Tintori won a Sports Emmy for his work with Oculus on Follow My Lead: The Story of the 2016 NBA Finals starring Steph Curry, LeBron James and narrated by Michael B. Jordan.{{cite web|url=http://cdn.emmyonline.org/sports_38th_winners.pdf|title=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Announces Winners of the 38th Annual Sports Emmy Awards|author=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|date=May 9, 2017|accessdate=2017-05-10}}

In 2018, Tintori directed the ULP Orientation Video in the "Windmills" episode of Maniac.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864092/|title=IMDb|website=IMDb }}

• "Electric Feel" by MGMT (2007) (Interactive video)
• "Time to Pretend" by MGMT (2008)
• "Electric Feel" by MGMT (2008)
• "Delivery Man" by The Cool Kids (2008)
• "Spaceman" by The Killers (2009)
• "Evident Utensil" by Chairlift (2009)
• "Kids" by MGMT (2009)
• "Dressed to Digress" by Boy Crisis (2009)
• "Crystallize" (YouTube Music Awards version) by Lindsey Stirling (2013){{cite web|url=http://www.videostatic.com/watch-it/2013/11/04/lindsay-stirling-crystallize-youtube-music-awards-version-ray-tintori-dir|title=Lindsay Stirling "Crystallize (YouTube Music Awards version)" (Ray Tintori, dir.)|author=Steven Gottlieb |date=November 4, 2013|publisher=Video Static|accessdate=2013-11-04}}
• "Chemistry" by Arcade Fire (2018){{cite web|url=https://www.nova.ie/latest_news/arcade-fires-bizarre-new-video-114405|title=Watch: Arcade Fire Have Released A Bizarre New Video For Chemistry!|author=David Layde|date=June 12, 2018|publisher=Radio Nova|accessdate=2018-07-07}}

• Jettison Your Loved Ones (2005)
• Death to the Tinman (2006)
• Cabal (2014)

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• [http://www.raytintori.com Ray Tintori] official site
• {{IMDb name|0864092}}
• [http://www.clipland.com/Name/0105740/ Ray Tintori] on [http://www.clipland.com/ Clipland]
• [http://www.vimeo.com/5137306 Jettison Your Loved Ones] Video
• [http://www.vimeo.com/5138207 Death to the Tinman] Video
• [http://www.partizan.com Partizan] representation for commercials and music videos.

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