Joe Penna (a.k.a. "MysteryGuitarMan")

Joe Penna is a successful, young director originally from São Paulo, Brazil. Penna began his career on YouTube during the recession when he decided, with the lack of editing jobs in Boston, to take a road trip to LA. Within a matter of months his channel, MysteryGuitarMan, rose from obscurity to become the tenth most subscribed of all time. His visionary style and playful content has pushed YouTube videos out of the realm of user-generated content and into the world of independent art. He is a one-man production team who directs stop motion and looping music videos. Penna believes in YouTube as a distribution platform because it allows him the ultimate freedom to create what he wants with the ability to include his audience in the creation process.  He currently lives in Los Angeles where he recently directed his first scripted web series called, ?Once Upon?.