Calogero Carucci

Calogero recently finished his debut feature film, "Moving in 2008," with hopes to premiere at film festivals in 2020. While he was born in Phoenix, Arizona, Calogero was raised around Long Island, New York. His father, Jimmy, works in construction, and his mother, Maria, as a hairdresser. Friends and family typically appear in his films. He attributes his family's constant moving and Italian-American blue-collar heritage as major influences in his work. Among his favorite filmmakers are John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, D.A. Pennebaker, Martin Scorsese, Agnes Varda, Jerry Schatzberg, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Ralph Bakshi, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Spike Lee.