T.M. Scorzafava
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T.M. Scorzafava born Tina Shaw, is an Italian American
film director. She is best known as the Director of "Gillery's Little Secret" starring Annabeth Gish
, Julie Ann Emery
and Allison Smith.
as an only child of a single parent family. She is currently best known for her film Gillery’s Little Secret, which received much success on the 2005-2007 international film festival circuit.
Her feature screenplay, "The Color of Secrets", is in development talks and she’s just completed a short film, “In Twilight’s Shadow” to be packaged with the feature script, based on the life and death of a female immortal.
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film director. She is best known as the Director of "Gillery's Little Secret" starring Annabeth Gish
Annabeth Gish
Annabeth Gish is an American actress known for starring roles in Shag, Mystic Pizza and Double Jeopardy. She is best known for her roles as Special Agent Monica Reyes on The X-Files, Elizabeth Bartlet Westin on The West Wing and as Eileen Caffee on the Showtime drama Brotherhood.-Personal...
, Julie Ann Emery
Julie Ann Emery
Julie Ann Emery, born and raised in Crossville, Tennessee, is a theatre, television and film actress. She attended Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, Missouri, where she studied acting. She began her career at the age of 16 on the theatrical stage and has appeared in several productions, such as A...
and Allison Smith.
Biography
T.M. Scorzafava is an award winning Italian-American film writer, director and producer who grew up in Holly Springs, North CarolinaHolly Springs, North Carolina
Holly Springs is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. As of 2009, the town population was estimated at 21,749, and it had gained the title of"The fastest growing town in North Carolina".-Geography:...
as an only child of a single parent family. She is currently best known for her film Gillery’s Little Secret, which received much success on the 2005-2007 international film festival circuit.
Her feature screenplay, "The Color of Secrets", is in development talks and she’s just completed a short film, “In Twilight’s Shadow” to be packaged with the feature script, based on the life and death of a female immortal.
Career
Scorzafava was the senior director for the award winning broadcast design and branding specialist ABC-TV's Video Design Group based in Los Angeles before forming Liquid Filmworks, a film and digital creative collective in 2002. Their mission is to find and work with young up-n-coming film and television talent, both in front of and behind the camera. So far their plan has paid off for everyone involved with the success of their short films and the recent interest regarding their two feature scripts.-
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- She isn't an only child, she has two brothers, Nicholas and Todd**
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Stylistic Influences
Scorzafava cites her cinematic influences as Poland’s Krzysztof Kieslowski for composition and lighting, France’s Jean-Pierre Jeunet for story structure, China’s Yimou Zhang for fantastic colors and martial arts choreography, as well as Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro for cinematography, story and style.Filmography
- In Twilight’s Shadow (2008) (writer, director & producer)
- Into The Arms of Strangers (2007) (producer) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0979900/
- Gillery’s Little Secret (2006) (writer, director & producer) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756651/
- Trust No One (2004) (director) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426608/
- Dinner With Roland (2002) (director) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358443/