2020 ShortFest Archive
WINNER: Young Cineastes Award
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Anthony Giacchino is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker living in NYC. His last doc, The Giant's Dream (Warner Bros. Pictures), tells the story behind Academy Award winning director Brad Bird's first feature film, The Iron Giant. Anthony is currently working on an untitled World War II project set for the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. Anthony's first feature-length documentary, "The Camden 28," aired on the PBS series POV, and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Achievement in writing for the screen. The New York Times called the film "a brilliant merger of political outrage and filmmaking chops and the most suspenseful movie in theaters right now." In addition to his documentary film work, Anthony guest-curated the New York City Police Museum's 2009 centennial exhibit on Joe Petrosino, the legendary NYPD detective whose 1909 murder in Palermo made him the force's first and only member to be killed overseas in the line of duty.