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Anthony Giacchino is an Oscar® & Emmy® award winning filmmaker.

His film, COLETTE, won Best Documentary Short Subject at the 2021 Academy Awards. His most recent documentary, DIRECTOR BY NIGHT (Marvel Studios), follows renowned film composer Michael Giacchino’s first foray into directing, and explores his filmmaking origins in the small New Jersey town where he grew up. Anthony's first feature-length documentary, THE CAMDEN 28 (PBS), aired on the PBS series POV, and was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing for the Screen.

As a professional in the film and television industry, Anthony has had the privilege of collaborating with Marvel Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Walt Disney Pictures, Electronic Arts, PBS, A&E Television Networks, and the History Channel.

Credits:

• "DIRECTOR BY NIGHT", Marvel Studios / Disney+, Director, Writer, Producer (2022)
  
  DIRECTOR BY NIGHT tells the story of two Academy Award Winning brothers and their different ways of telling stories. Michael Giacchino, renowned film composer, makes his directing debut with Werewolf by Night. His brother, documentary filmmaker Anthony Giacchino, chronicles the experience, and explores the duo’s filmmaking origins in the small New Jersey town where they grew up.
  
  
• "COLETTE", Guardian Documentaries / Electronic Arts, Inc., Director, Writer (2021)
  
  Winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. As a young girl, Colette Marin-Catherine fought the Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. Since 1945, she has refused to set foot in Germany. That changes when a history student named Lucie enters her life and encourages her to visit the concentration camp where the Nazis killed her brother.
  
  
• "THE GIANT’S DREAM", Warner Bros., Director, Writer, Producer (2016)
  
  THE GIANT’S DREAM tells the dramatic story about a rare moment in movie history that allowed a first-time director to make one of the world’s greatest animated films, THE IRON GIANT. Using stylized animatics and original concept art, THE GIANT’S DREAM charts the incredible ups and downs, industry firsts, and amazing history behind this iconic film and its rebel director, Brad Bird.
  
  
• "ROOTS: A History Revealed", HISTORY, Director, Writer, Producer (2016)
  
  Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary, ROOTS: A History Revealed is the companion documentary to HISTORY's 2016 re-imagining of Alex Haley's ROOTS. It's an unrestrained look at the history of slavery in America. As interviewee Nwando Achebe says in the film, this isn't "a feel-good history ... but we must tell the history as it is.
  
  
• "TOMORROWLAND" (Special Features Content), Walt Disney Pictures, Director, Writer, Producer (2015)
  
  Special Features content for the film’s BluRay release, including directing actor Hugh Laurie in the short film “The World Of Tomorrow Science Hour with David Nix.”
  
  
• "STAR TREK: Secrets of the Universe", HISTORY, Director, Writer, Producer (2013)
  
  Released in conjunction JJ Abrams’s “Star Trek Into Darkness,” Secrets of the Universe sits down with Abrams and leading astrophysicists for a tour of the past, present, and future of science, science fiction, and STAR TREK’s place in it all.
  
  
• "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – Ghost Protocol" (SF Content), Paramount Pictures, Director, Writer, Producer (2011)
  
  In the more than two hours of Special Features content, viewers take a deep dive into director Brad Bird’s experience as he makes his first live action feature. All content was created for the film’s BluRay release.
  
  
• "GREAT MOMENTS FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL", HISTORY, Director, Writer, Producer (2008)
  
  Winner of a Primetime Emmy Award, this VOD series looks back on some of the most memorable moments of American electoral history.
  
  
• "THE CAMDEN 28", PBS Documentary Series POV, Director, Writer, Producer (2007)
  
  Nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen, THE CAMDEN 28 explores how & why individuals intentionally placed themselves at risk of arrest and imprisonment while protesting the war in Vietnam.