Joe Ballarini

Joe Ballarini is an American film director, screenwriter, and author. He is best known today for his screenwriting debut with the feature length film, Dance of the Dead, and for his uncredited writing contributions with the Blue Sky Studios film, Ice Age: Continental Drift.

In the early stages of My Little Pony: The Movie, it was announced on Oct. 20, 2014, that he was assigned to write and screenwrite the film, with Meghan McCarthy as co-executive producer.