Outspoken, charismatic, and passionate in all respects, Anthony Spadaccini is an up-and-coming director, writer, and actor 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 "Unstable," 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" gained some critical admiration and allowed Spadaccini to write and direct 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 Cleveland Micro Fest and Bryn Mawr Film Institute in 2005 and The Indie Can Film Festival in 2006. The hysterical comedy short was a tribute to the pre-1920s Chaplin/Keaton silent classics and depicted a slacker's morning from hell as he struggles to make it to work on time.Spadaccini has big aspirations, but has set realistic goals for 2006 and beyond, having recently decided to split time between directing and acting. He recently starred in two Johnny K. Wu films, Swedish artist Bimbo Boy's "Drama Queen" music video and alongside Kyle Znamenak in the horror short "En Passant." In addition, principal photography wrapped recently on his surreal short film "Emo Pill," depicting a suicidal teenager's delusions of grandeur created by a mysterious pill. Anthony's films have appeared in several film festivals across the United States and in Canada.
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