John Mangia (Visual Effects)

John Mangia is a Los Angeles-based Visual Effects Supervisor. He served as Additional VFX Supervisor for Marvel Studios on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Before that, he was the Overall VFX Supervisor for the Paramount+ limited series The Offer, supervising five vendors and nearly 800 VFX shots. His work on the series included the creation of highly detailed, full-CG environments, digital crowds, and vehicles to faithfully recreate 1970s New York City and the world of The Godfather. Mangia also served as Overall VFX Supervisor on the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit, directed by Scott Frank and executive produced by Bill Horberg. His contributions included the visualisation of Beth Harmon’s chess hallucinations and the transformation of present-day Berlin into 1960s settings such as Paris, Moscow, Mexico City, and Kentucky. His additional credits include M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s Dreamland, and The Code from CBS Television Studios. In 2014, he was nominated...Read More