About
Scaringi Films came into being in the summer of 2009 as a small post-production company, specializing in video editing and editing support services. In late 2011, Scaringi Films blossomed into a slightly less small production company, with more developed production and pre-production capabilities.
Today, Scaringi Films is a 2-person operation with husband and wife team, Marco and Robyn Scaringi at the helm. Robyn is the editing and finances person and Marco is pretty much everything else from producer/director to AC & grip. Scaringi Films operates independently as a production company, and Robyn and Marco frequently work individually as crew on a variety of film productions throughout the greater Seattle area.
If you’re looking for an extremely expensive, overpriced, high-end production, you’ve come to the wrong place. If you’re looking for something small, but that doesn’t look cheap, then we might be the people you’re looking for.
Origins
Robyn and Marco met where all filmmakers who don’t yet know they’re filmmakers meet — at a retail video store where they both worked. Their relationship started like a romantic comedy — at first they hated each other. But after Robyn turned 21, she magically became much more easy-going, and a friendship quickly emerged. Love and marriage came on the heels of new jobs they both got in the mortgage industry, an industry they both eventually swore off in order to go to film school. And the rest, as they say, is history.
KUOW, the Seattle NPR affiliate, did a story about Robyn and Marco in March 2010. To listen to it go here.
Robyn Bio
The editing bug hit me early in life, although it took me some time to realize it. In high school, I thought it might’ve been copy editing that I wanted to do. I ended up editing my senior class high school chapbook, and then went on to major in English at the University of Washington.
My last quarter at the UW, I took a class studying independent film and found what I was really looking for: filmmaking. The same quarter, I took an English class that studied ‘animality’ in literature. It inspired me to become a vegetarian and I’ve been one ever since.
Before returning to school, I found a new love: Marco. We were married in the fall of 2005 and soon bought a house together. Marco also shared my passion for filmmaking, and he collaborated with me on several filmmaking projects as an actor, producer, and director.
Fast forward to a couple years later, I made it back to school, this time to study film. By the time I graduated, I was already half-way done editing my first feature film, a fun little found-footage style horror film called Eyes in the Dark.
As soon as I graduated, I started my own freelance video editing business, Scaringi Films, and I began editing professionally. One of my first projects was working on a promotional video for the Broadway High School Alumni Association and I continued working on training videos for Skydive Snohomish. Soon, a handful of companies hired me as a freelance video editor, including the advertising company, Creature, and Eyes in the Dark’s production company, Emerald City Pictures.
Although my current niche has evolved into support services for editors like script supervising and DIT’ing, I’m still an editor at heart. My true passion is narrative fiction and I’ve been known to give well beyond the call of duty for projects that truly deserve it. If you have a project that you think might interest me, please feel free to get in touch.
Click here to view complete resume.
References available at LinkedIn.
Visit Robyn’s IMDB page.
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Marco Bio
I have always had a passion for movies, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. In high school I developed a love for acting and he went on to study Theatre at Seattle Pacific University. At SPU, I mastered several theatrical skills that I would later apply to cinema: lighting, directing, writing, set construction and acting. After graduating with a BA in Theatre, I wrote and directed the highly acclaimed short play “Reality Check.”
In 2008, I began working with Emerald City Pictures with my wife Robyn where I was able to apply my jack-of-all-trades knowledge to help produce the found-footage horror film Eyes in the Dark. I also acted as Music Coordinator on the film and eventually directed the Eyes in the Dark music video, “Away” for the band S.Y.F.T. For the 48 Hour Film Project, in 2010, I co-wrote the award winning short Fingerphilia and in 2011 produced Happy Monday.
Soon I decided that filmmaking was no longer just a hobby, but should be my full time career. In the spring of 2011, I enrolled at Shoreline Community College to earn a degree in Digital Filmmaking. That summer, I worked as an intern on the feature films, Safety Not Guaranteed (Sundance) and Fat Kid Rules the World (SXSW) and as the 2nd AC for This is Ours. I am currently in post-production for the student film “Suspect” which I produced.