Johno Wells

Jonathan ("Johno") Wells is a multimedia artist, painter, photographer, filmmaker, composer and director currently residing in San Diego, California.
Johno was born on March 29, 1970 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the age of 18 (1988) he moved to Riverside, California where he started the band "Paranoid Pam" with Billy Barnett and Emmett Ramirez.
Paranoid Pam played all over Los Angeles and Southern California with FIREHOSE, No Doubt, Voodoo Glow Skulls, , Primitive Radio Gods, and Swirlies .
Through their friendship with Mike Watt, FIREHOSE invited Paranoid Pam to support their 1992 tour, "The 48 State Kuda Bake."
In the early 90's Johno began his career as a multimedia artist playing with early versions of Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and Final Cut Pro, working with Mean Street Magazine creating stories about local bands and shows in the So. Cal area.
Johno created t-shirts and album cover artwork for Inland Empire-area bands and his passion for creative graphic design and edgy photography began.
Johno married Stephanie Garcia in 1995. Stephanie was the second singer for Paranoid Pam, replacing Desiree Richard in 1994. Though the band enjoyed moderate success in the region from 1990 to 1994, it dissolved in 1996 when they moved the band to San Diego.
In 1996 Johno founded The Redtimes with Paulette Shepard as an online ezine for music reviews and hipster-culture. Tired with chasing record labels for average music, this project faded away.
From 1996 to 2000, Johno worked for ad agencies and production houses in the San Diego area as a production artist, and finally a creative director at Interactivate Inc., an ad agency in downtown San Diego.
In 2000 Johno began his freelance business under the moniker "Redtimes". Specializing in corporate video, and documentary films, he also makes his own short films and music videos, often scoring his own films.
In the summer of 2006, Johno traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and shot a documentary called "Yezelalem Minch", a story about a small orphanage that was doing well working with AIDS orphans. This film premiered in Gallup, New Mexico in April, 2007 and the showing was covered by the Gallup Independant.
Teaming up with Justin Adams, he founded Resolver Films and together they have made award winning films such as "Drown" which played at the Palm Springs Film Festival in 2007, and also the music video Human Destination (2008) for Portland band The Upsidedown which won Best Project at Landmark Theatre’s Film Festival.
Their first feature-length film, "Water Wings" will premiere in Summer 2009.

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