Anthony Spadaccini is an award-winning filmmaker from Northern Delaware. He was born April 14, 1982 in Wilmington, Delaware to local Christian folk musicians Melissa & Louis Spadaccini. Growing up, Anthony created fictitious radio shows using his cassette recorder with his sister Rebecca. In his teenage years, despite being in the aviation vocational shop at his high school, Anthony knew he was destined for the world of cinema. He left home a couple of months after turning 18 and struggled for a couple of years to regain his footing and refine his talents. His short film "The Troubled Interviewee," shot in 2002, gained some recognition on iFilm.com in August 2004, when it ranked ninth on the website's most viewed comedy shorts for the month. This hilarious mockumentary depicted an incompetent film student's random interview with a troubled teenager. In 2005, Spadaccini got serious with his hate crime drama "Unst able," the first of three films in a series Spadaccini called "The Film Truth Collection." This documentary-style cinema verite film depicted a hate crime and the effects on its characters. "Unstable" has gained some critical admiration and made its U.S. festival debut at the 2006 Newark Film Festival (having already premiered in Canada at the Indie Can Film Festival in Toronto earlier that year). Since then, Spadaccini has written, directed, and co-starred in two followups, "Aftermath" (a saddening story of HIV) and "Hatred" (a direct followup to "Unstable"). All three films have been recognized as hard-edged underground exercises in realism. Spadaccini's short film "Monday Morning" was an official selection at the Action On Film Festival, Cleveland Micro Fest and Bryn Mawr Film Institute in 2005 and the Indie Can Film Festival, Estes Park Film Festival, 2nd Indie Can Film Festival, and Delaware Valley Film Festival in 2006. It also won sec ond place for experimental shorts at the Indie Gathering Film Festival in 2006. The hysterical comedy short was a tribute to the early 1900s Chaplin / Keaton silent classics and depicted a slacker's morning from hell as he struggles to make it to work on time. Due the popularity of "Monday Morning," Spadaccini recently shot a followup, entitled "The First Date," which follows the same bumbling character as he turns a date with a beautiful woman into a total disaster. "Emo Pill" is Anthony's latest short film, a surrealistic venture into the world of depression, as seen through the eyes of an emo teenager. "Emo Pill" is one of the first films to deal with the emo scene in an honest and sincere tone. The film made its world debut at the 2nd annual Newark Film Festival in September, playing at the Delaware Valley Film Festival, and will be premiering in Toronto at the 2nd Indie Can Film Festival in November. Spadaccini won exemplary filmmakin g awards for both "Emo Pill" and "Monday Morning" at the 2006 Delaware Valley Film Festival. Spadaccini recently has decided to split time between directing and acting. He recently starred in two films by award-winning Cleveland filmmaker Johnny K. Wu: Swedish artist Bimbo Boy's "Drama Queen" music video and the horror short "En Passant." He also recently made a cameo in Wu's feature length sci-fi epic "The Rapture" and has a co-starring role in Dave Wascavage's sci-fi horror film "Infinities Lock," currently in production. Also currently in production is Anthony's feature film "Head Case," a pseudo-horror documentary depicting the video diaries of husband-and-wife serial killers.
Why I'm producing The 1 Second Film:
I am financing THE 1 SECOND FILM because I feel that it a very unique spin on the filmmaking process and in the future, I could see more films being funded this way. In addition, I am a huge fan of experimental films.
Perfect Moment
When I realized for the first time that what I felt was true love. It's a moment I would attempt to capture in a 1 second film.
2008
