Calogero Carucci

Calogero's films have played internationally at Berlinale, Heartland, BAMcinemaFest, Napa Valley, among others. His first directorial feature, MOVING IN 2008, centers around a family and their troubles during the recession of 2008, and was released in 2022 on Prime Video. His second directorial feature, LONG ISLAND GUS, focuses on a man's struggles weaving through the Long Island black market in an attempt to find a kidney for his ailing friend, and premiered at the 2022 Sarasota Film Festival where it won the Independent Visions Jury Prize. Calogero produced Tyler Taormina's second feature film, HAPPER'S COMET, that premiered in Berlinale's 2022 Forum section.Calogero is currently working to kickstart two feature films that he will direct. The first film, VICK, LENNY, JASMINE, follows a 30-year-old Nigerian-American woman, Jasmine, her husband, Vick, and their 10-year-old biracial son, Lenny, as their life changes due to an unplanned pregnancy. The second film, LEONI'S, tracks America's greatest forgotten chef, Leonard 'Leoni' Maglioni, and the server staff behind his mythological Italian restaurant, Leoni's.Calogero was raised around Long Island, New York. His father, Jimmy, works in construction, and his mother, Maria, is a hairdresser. His parents named him after the character 'Calogero' in the 1993 movie A BRONX TALE. He attributes his family's constant moving and Italian-American blue-collar heritage as major influences in his work. He is also the founder of 19th Floor Productions, a film production company based in New York. His favorite filmmakers are John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, D.A. Pennebaker, Martin Scorsese, Frederick Wiseman, Agnes Varda, Jerry Schatzberg, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Ralph Bakshi, the Maysles Brothers, Spike Lee, and Allan King.::'Calogero Carucci' (qv)