Anthony Spadaccini
| Anthony Spadaccini | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anthony Edward Spadaccini April 14, 1982 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director, producer, writer, actor |
| Years active | 1999—present |
| Awards | Exemplary Filmmaking Award - "Emo Pill", "Monday Morning" - 2006 Delaware Valley Film Festival; 2nd Place Best Experimental Short - "Monday Morning" - 2006 Indie Gathering Film Festival; Best Experimental Short - "The First Date" - 2007 Indie Gathering Film Festival; 3rd Place Best Experimental Short - "Emo Pill" - 2007 Indie Gathering Film Festival |
| Website | Anthony Spadaccini |
Anthony Spadaccini is an award-winning filmmaker from Delaware.
Anthony Edward Spadaccini was born April 14, 1982 in Wilmington, Delaware. His father Louis was a musician and lyricist, while his mother Melissa was a singer. Louis & Melissa released a Christian folk/pop album in 1986 entitled Read My Heart, when Anthony was only 4 years old.
Anthony’s favorite hobby growing up was writing, acting, and recording fictitious radio shows and sitcoms on cassette. Once his younger sister Rebecca was old enough, she joined him. Anthony has credited Rebecca for helping fuel his creativity.
In high school, Anthony got his first video camera (a Zenith camcorder from the early 1980s) as a gift from his grandparents and began writing and directing several shorts and features. He considered filmmaking a hobby while working many entry-level customer service, telemarketing, and data entry jobs to support himself.
When his father Louis died February 5, 2004 of acute pancreatitis, he left behind several unfinished projects behind – including an unpublished manuscript and lyrics for a planned follow-up to Read My Heart. Anthony saw this as a sign that he should get serious about filmmaking.
Shortly thereafter, Anthony uploaded his short film The Troubled Interviewee to iFilm. Anthony had never publicly screened his work before and wanted to see if he was really any good at what he ultimately wanted to do with his life.
In 2004, Spadaccini founded Fleet Street Films, an independent film production company focusing on microcinema endeavors.
After The Troubled Interviewee was well received by viewers on iFilm in the summer of 2004, Spadaccini directed a trilogy (called The Film Truth Collection) of feature-length cinema verite pseudo-documentaries: Unstable,Aftermath, & Hatred, which have been recognized by critics and audiences alike as hard-edged underground exercises in realism.
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