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future perfect limited is an American production company founded and operated by producer, curator, and arts administrator John Cardellino. Recently, John produced Powwow People by Sky Hopinka, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and U.S. premiere at the 2025 Camden International Film Festival. Current projects in production also include Marley McDonald's The Elephant in the Room, Lawrence Burney’s Revisiting Ramona, and Savannah Wood's Hard to Get and Dear Paid For.
John was previously Producer of Sundance Institute's Art of Nonfiction Initiative, a program designed to encourage and support inventive artistic practice in documentary filmmaking. Supported artists and films included Garrett Bradley's Time (2020), RaMell Ross' Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018), Kitty Green's The Assistant (2020), Brett Story's The Hottest August (2019), and Sky Hopinka's Maɬni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore (2020).
In 2023, John earned his MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he focused on exhibition and production models bridging the film and fine art worlds. He currently produces and consults on independent film and interdisciplinary arts projects, and has taught graduate-level filmmaking courses for Johns Hopkins University.
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