Anthony Scarpa

"Anthony Scarpa" is a filmmaker and musician born and raised in New York City. His family emigrated to Brooklyn from the small Sicilian town of Polizzi Generosa, the same town from which Martin Scorsese’s family came. Scarpa founded the alternative rock / performance art / circus act “Naked Sun” directly out of high school. An integral part of the freak show that was “The Limelight” Naked Sun was soon signed to BMG records, where corporate types turned the band into a bloated overproduced “rock” act, which soon disintegrated. Moving to Los Angeles, Scarpa played with several of the bands that created the original “Silver Lake” scene including “Don Knotts Overdrive", and Interscope recording artists “Lifter” with Mike Coulter and Jeffrey Sebelia. Scarpa and Moni Ritchie founded the multimedia rock group “The Drummed” (which also featured Rob Campanella of The Quarter After and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Christian Hejnal of Scarling.) Scarpa played drums, and synthesizers as well as creating a visual projection show for the bands performances.

In between touring and recording Scarpa directed several music videos, and shot photos that would become various album and magazine covers.

Scarpa’s five years in the making, documentary on Los Angeles band “Betty Blowtorch” titled “Betty Blowtorch And Her Amazing True Life Adventures” set attendance records at the American Film Institute's music documentary festival and won the coveted “Audience Award” at the “Silver Lake Film Festival”. Los Angeles’ leading alternative film fest. The film caught the attention of Philippe Diaz at Cinema Libre Studio who eventually released the film

Scarpa was also a founding member of the Los Angeles based, post punk band “The Art of Safecracking” with Lance Webber of “Man Will Surrender” Melanie Makaiwi of “The Penny Dreadfuls” and Carlos Gutierrez of “Turndown”. Scarpa played drums and synthesizers and also created the bands live visual projections.

Scarpa’s dramatic feature “Grace”, the story of a young woman’s battle with terminal illness, premiered at the Cinequest film festival.

Scarpa is an in-demand editor with several feature films to his credit.

When not standing behind a camera Scarpa is a multi-instrumentalist and visual artist.

Filmography

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* “Betty Blowtorch And Her Amazing True Life Adventures” (2006)
* "Grace" (2005)

Discography

Albums/CDs

LPs

*The Art of Safecracking, "TAOS" (2004) — Drums Synth
*Lifter, "Album #2" (1998) — Drums
*Naked Sun, "WONDERDRUG" (1994) — Drums
*Naked Sun, "Naked Sun" (1992) — Drums

ingles and EPs

*The Art of Safecracking, "SPITR" (2004) — Drums Synth
*The Drummed, "Eraserhead", EP (1997) — Drums Synth Producer
*The Drummed, "Mosquito", EP (1998) — Drums Synth Producer
*The Drummed, "The Drummed", EP (1999) — Drums Synth Producer
*Don Knotts Overdrive, "Relax" (1996) — Drums

External links

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* [http://www.myspace.com/twelverakesfilms AnthonyScarpa on MySpace]
* [http://www.bettyblowtorchmovie.com Official site of Betty Blowtorch And Her Amazing True Life Adventures]
* [http://www.myspace.com/bettyblowtorchmovie Betty Blowtorch And Her Amazing True Life Adventures on MySpace]
* [http://www.gracefilm.com Official site of Grace]
* [http://www.facecrime.com Official site of Lifter]