Fernando Scarpa

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Fernando Scarpa.

Fernando Scarpa (10 December 1968 in Milan) is an international award winning director and actor.

Biography

Fernando Scarpa began his career in theater in 1990 and has achieved extensive international recognition in Europe. In 1999, the acclaimed European Oscar-nominated actor and director Klaus Maria Brandauer appointed Scarpa as Personal Assistant to the prestigious Burgtheater in Vienna.

In 2001 to 2005, Scarpa directed his own theater in the historical cultural city of Wittenberg Germany, directing—among other works -- "Hamlet", "Faust", and "Luther", for which he received 'German National Awards' in 2004, as well as public and critical acclaim. In addition, Scarpa served as the Artistic Supervisor for the Theater des Westens, Berlin for musical shows, and worked as a television director for both the national Italian station RaiUno and major German stations ZDF and SAT1.

In 2005, Fernando Scarpa moved to the U.S. to gain experience in American film. He shot his debut short movie "Brothers", which almost immediately won BEST SHORT, BEST SCREENPLAY and BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT awards at the NYIIFVF in Los Angeles and New York City.

In the beginning of 2007, Scarpa returns to Germany and directs with great success the Musical "Martin Luther King", a big stage production in the historical Memory Church (Gedaechtnis Kirche) located in the heart of Berlin.

Among other projects slated for 2009, he will produce the feature movie "White Cure", a medical thriller based on an original idea of Scarpa’s.

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