Maria Gigante
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 Title: Assoc Professor Practice
 Dept: Film and Media Arts
 Office: FM 630
 Phone: 216-687-5176
 Email: m.f.gigante@csuohio.edu
 Web: https://gigantefilms.com/
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. FM 630, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Education:
MFA, Film, Columbia College Chicago, 2007
B.A., English Literature, Ohio University, 1997
 
Brief Bio:
Maria Gigante earned her Master of Fine Arts in Film from Columbia College Chicago. Her award-winning films and screenplays have exhibited at more than 60 festivals internationally, including the Berlinale, Tribeca, Chicago International and Montreal World. For more than a decade, Gigante has taught film at the college level while writing, directing and producing narrative and documentary shorts, music videos and digital content. Her recent short film, M I L K, premiered at the 2023 Cleveland International Film Festival.