Fernando Scarpa
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Fernando Scarpa is a graduate of the motion picture directing program at New School University of New York City.[1] Since 2011 he teaches the ‘Directing Movies/TV Workshop’ and the 'Advanced Directing Workshop' at UCLA Extension Entertainment Studies in Los Angeles.[1]
His debut short film, ‘Brothers’, won Best Short, Best Screenplay and Best Directorial Debut Awards at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles and New York in 2006.[2] In 2013 he produced together with Marco Beltrami the short movie ‘Band’, directed by Coleman Beltrami.[3] In 2014 he wrote and directed ‘Doradus’, a short mystery drama on a modern ghost story.[4] Fernando described it as a possible pilot episode for a TV series.[5]
‘Doradus’, was nominated as 'Best Short' [6] and was part of the Opening Night at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival on June 25, 2014.[7] The movie had its West Coast Premier as Official Selection at the Downtown Film Festival of Los Angeles on July 12, 2014,[8] and it was screened at the Los Angeles Fear and Fantasy Film Festival in September 2014.[9] Doradus played at the Raleigh Studio in Hollywood as a part of the International Family Film Festival[10] and won Honorable Mention at the Hollywood & Vine Film Festival.[11] At the Hollyshorts Film Festival, held at the TLC Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the movie won the Audience Choice Award 2014.[12]
In 2015 Fernando released 'Compound 147' written and directed by Coleman Beltrami,[13] and two episodes of the 30-min comedy/drama series for TV ‘Jay ROCCO’, written and directed by himself. Both ‘Doradus’ and ‘Jay ROCCO’ are currently in further development for TV and theatrical.[14]
In 2016 ans 2017, along with the development of the feature movie ‘Galileo 1610’, based on a play he wrote and directed about the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei,[15] Fernando worked on the feature film ‘The Book of Ronnie’ (AKA 'Panther'),[16] a mystery drama where a modern bio-hacking conspiracy is powered by a revived ancient Egypt myth.