Thomas Mendolia is a director, working in Los Angeles, CA. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was moved to a small town in North Carolina at a very young age. His father insisted on staying true to their ways and brought him up with a strong, working-class, Italian American upbringing. Being from “The North” but raised in “The South”, Thomas never quite fit into either world; this positioned him as an observer, which would later benefit him as a storyteller. He took to filmmaking at a young age as a