BFA Communication Design '80
Vice President, Branded Content, FX Networks
John Di Minico is vice president of Branded Content for FX Networks, including the networks FX, FXX, and FXM and the video streaming service FX on Hulu. FX Networks is home to critically acclaimed original series such as Mrs. America, Pose, Atlanta, Dave, Fargo, DEVS, Fosse/Verdon, Better Things, Snowfall, American Horror Story, and nonfiction series such as AKA Jane Roe, Hip Hop Untold, PRIDE from Christine Vachon, A Wilderness of Error from Errol Morris, and The Saga of Afeni and Tupac from Allen Hughes.
At FX, Di Minico leads creative, strategy, and production of all branded content partnerships, which include live-action productions, social, digital, animation, interactive engagements, BTS, and AR/VR. He plays a key leadership role in the FX Marketing division, which has been named Best Marketing Team in Television by its peers for nine consecutive years (2011-2019).
Di Minico holds an MFA from the UCLA School of Film & Television, where he was awarded the University Fellowship, and a BFA with Honors from Parsons School of Design. His independent film and video work has been included in numerous festivals and exhibitions, including the American Film Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Long Beach Museum, the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, the Tel Aviv Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. His early video work was included in Only Human: Sex, Gender and Other Misrepresentations, curated by Bill Horrigan and B. Ruby Rich, a pioneering national exhibition examining LGBTQ identity and the AIDS crises.
Di Minico serves on the board of GO Campaign, which has granted nearly $10 million in support of orphaned and vulnerable children in 37 countries, and he recently completed his term on the board of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). He has lectured and taught at colleges such as Cal Arts, Art Center College, UCLA School of Film/TV, Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York, Otis College of Art & Design, and Loyola Film School. He is also an executive member of the Television Academy.
Di Minico has lived and worked extensively outside of the United States, leading creative teams in locations such as Istanbul, Berlin, Beijing, Melbourne, London, and Paris.