Joe Augustyn

Joe Augustyn is an American screenwriter, film producer, and author. 2Early life Born in Philadelphia, Augstyn was the son of a factory worker and a hairdresser. Raised in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA, Joe attended St. Adalbert's parochial grade school before attending the public magnet school Central High School (Philadelphia). He was briefly married to writer-editor Victoria Brownworth.He pursued painting and cartooning before attending Temple University where he studied film theory and production. As a college freshman he won a FOCUS Award in the film studies category for a paper analyzing the symbolism in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The only undergrad among eleven winners, he was flown to Los Angeles for the ceremonies, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the AFI Conservatory for Advanced Film Studies as a producing-fellow. At his graduation review he was told by school director Tony Vellani that he held the record for the number of student productions he'd worked on. 2Career Following graduation from AFI he worked as an associate of Steve Golin and Joni Sighvatsson, who later went on to found Propaganda Films. After producing two features he retired from producing to focus exclusively on screenwriting, completing assignments for such companies as Tristar, Propaganda and countless indie producer