August 2008
Personality

Spend some time with Joseph Conti and you’ll find yourself questioning what you see. Is that helicopter really in the sky—or a creation of ContiFilms? Always on the cutting edge of film production, Conti lives a life of what he calls “miracles”—and many of them involve Albuquerque. He’s a computer effects wizard whose credits include Men in Black, Battlestar Galactica, Stuart Little, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Now, he’s working on his own production, Army of the Dead—and he’s found that moving back to Albuquerque from Los Angeles hasn’t hindered his film career in the slightest.

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