Giancarlo Fusi

Screenwriter and Director

Los Angeles, California

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May 2016

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About Giancarlo

Giancarlo Fusi was born in the Dominican Republic, the country that seems to sprout as many Major League Baseball players as plantains. But he grew up in New Jersey on a steady diet of American sitcoms and horror flicks. A knee injury kept him from his first dream of being first baseman for the New York Yankees so he shifted his focus to the equally impossible dream of becoming a Hollywood film director and moved to Los Angeles after being awarded the UCLA Phyllis Gebauer Scholarship in Writing for diverse writers in 2012. In the fall of 2014, he joined the first cohort of Mount Saint Mary University’s new Master of Fine Arts in Film & Television program on the historic backlot of Sunset Las Palmas Studios. He completed a Certificate in TV Drama Writing from the UCLA Film & Television Summer Institute in 2016 and later graduated with a MFA in Film & TV degree from Mount Saint Mary’s in 2017. He's been a mentor for the Young Storyteller's Script-to-Stage program teaching screenwriting to 5th graders from underprivileged L.A. neighborhoods and worked as a development assistant at a top boutique literary agency in Beverly Hills. He has won 30 awards to date for his screenwriting, most recently the Writers Residency at the Bahamas International Film Festival where he was personally mentored by the legendary Roger Corman. In his spare time, Giancarlo enjoys binge-watching Netflix & purge-writing TV shows.

Unique traits: Shaman

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Latin/Hispanic

Certifications

Credits

Entropy: A Life in a Day (2017)
Film (Short) Director A rehabilitated Ex Convict has a hard time readjusting to life after his release, but is unable to shake off some hardwired routines that were conditioned in him during his incarceration.

Awards

DIVERSO'S The Minority Report Fellowship Finalist
(2022)
Mentee Selection - Read Latinx Writers Initiative Year 2
(2021)
Winner of Best Short Length Screenplay at the SOMA Film Festival
(2019)
Winner of Best Short Script at the StoryMode Independent Short Film Awards
(2019)
Winner of Best Script at the Colorado International Cannabis & Hemp Film Festival
(2019)
Winner of Outstanding Short Screenplay at the American Screenwriters Conference
(2019)
Winner of Best Original Story at Horror in the Heat
(2019)
2nd Place Short Script at the Hollywood Horrorfest
(2019)
Winner of Best Original Screenplay at the Good Grain Film Festival
(2019)
Winner of Writers Residency with Roger Corman at the Bahamas International Film Festival
(2019)
Winner of Florida Short Screenplay Award at the Key West Film Festival
(2019)
Award of Filmmaker Grant from Love Your Shorts Film Festival
(2018)
Winner of Best Dark Comedy at Oregon Scream Week
(2018)
Winner of Best Dark Comedy at Veer West Screenplay Festival
(2018)
Carnage Award Nominee at the Diabolical Horror Film Festival
(2018)
Nominated for Best Break Out Script & Best Overall Script at the Oaxaca FilmFest
(2018)
3rd Place Best Short Screenplay at the Glendale International Film Festival
(2018)
1st Place Award in the Creeper Film Fest's Throw Up Thirty Screamplay Competition
(2018)
Featured Script - New Normal Reading Series presented by The Black List & Final Draft
(2018)
Award of Excellence from the Burning Love Screenplay Contest presented by Poe Films.
(2017)
Winner of Screenplay Competition at the Rahway International Film Festival
(2017)
Winner of Short Screenplay Contest at the Carnegie Screenwriters Script & Screen Festival
(2017)
Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Festival Angaelica
(2017)
Winner of Best Screenplay at the Frame by Sound Film & Music Festival by Vents Magazine
(2017)
1st Runner-Up at the London Cinematic International Film Festival
(2017)
1st Runner-Up in the Hollywood Hills Screenplay Competition’s First Scene Hook Contest
(2017)
2nd Place Award in the Creeper Film Fest’s Frightful Fifteen Screamplay Competition
(2017)
Winner of Best Short Script at the Independent Horror Movie Awards
(2016)
Winner of Best Teleplay at the New York Film & TV Festival
(2016)
Winner of the True Story Screenplay Competition
(2016)
Grand Prize Winner of the Southern California Screenplay Competition
(2016)
Honorable Mention at the Williamsburg International Film Festival
(2016)
1st Place Award in the Shallow Sea Stories Screenplay Competition
(2016)
2nd Place Award in the Las Vegas Screenplay Contest TV Pilot Competition
(2016)
Nominated for Best Horror Script, Best Original Concept & Best Global Script at Oaxaca FilmFest
(2016)
Winner of Best Short Screenplay at the Glendale International Film Festival
(2016)
Silver Award at the AURA Screenwriter Awards
(2015)
UCLA Extension Phyllis Gebauer Scholarship in Writing - One of ten nationwide awardees
(2012)