Recent Projects
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Marco Scaringi • Assistant Director
Robyn Scaringi • Script Supervisor
Narrative Short • Canon 5D • January 2012
Marco and Robyn teamed up with director and Seattle Central alum Dan Howes, who we met on the set of our recent 48 Hour Film Happy Monday. Most of the short film, simply titled “3″, was shot in a piano store in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle, and, oddly enough, almost every costume that every character wore had a sweater vest! Seriously though, “3″ is an intriguing film about the loss of human senses and how music can effect our connection to reality. Also of note, this was Robyn’s second Faith vs Fate short film.
Hey Marseilles
Robyn Scaringi • DIT • Music Video • Canon 7D • January 2012
Robyn recently helped shoot a music video for the Seattle band Hey Marseilles, with Seattle Magazine photographer Hayley Young in the director’s chair. If that wasn’t cool enough, this is also Robyn’s first official gig with Ben Kasulke, a cinematographer whose kindof a big deal in the Seattle indie film community. The crew was otherwise very similar to (and cream-of-the-crop awesome like) the crew for While You Weren’t Looking. More importantly though, Hayley, Ben and the band chose a very unique approach in how they shot the video, so everyone involved is pretty excited to see how the final video turns out.
Light/Black
Robyn Scaringi • Script Supervisor • Narrative Short • RED Epic • December 2011
This semi-experimental short is about time travel, tears in space-time, and an imagined meeting between Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein. Wow! The film was shot by a mostly Tacoma crew (with a lot of crew from the High Bar), and directed by Brian Parker, veteran filmmaker and Digital Media instructor at Bates Technical College in Tacoma. This was Robyn’s first of two shorts created specifically for the Faith vs Fate Festival of Shorts.
Phoenix Run – Web Series
Robyn Scaringi • Script Supervisor • Web Series Pilot • RED/RED Epic • December 2011
Robyn recently found herself wondering why she’d never worked on a zombie video, since: a) we’re huge zombie fans, and b) independent zombie films are pretty dang common. And then, right in the middle of the Walking Dead mid-season hiatus, Phoenix Run came along. Let me tell you, we know zombie films, and Phoenix Run is good. A fantastic crew, including Robyn, shot the 12 minute pilot episode on two cameras: a RED and a RED Epic, and it was a lot of fun to be on the set and watch the zombie magic happen. The series stars Conner Marx, a brilliant actor and super nice guy, and this is actually the fourth project Robyn as worked on with him! (For the curious, they both worked on Jenny, While You Weren’t Looking, and Door to Door). The Phoenix Run footage looks creepy and gorgeous, of course, and we can’t wait to see what happens next. They’re planning on releasing the first episode in February and shooting the next two episodes later that month. Stay tuned!
Suspect
Marco Scaringi • Producer
Robyn Scaringi • D.I.T., Production Accountant
Narrative short • RED • December 2011
Suspect has the distinction of being the first and only film school project that Robyn has worked on since she was in film school. Marco is nearing the end of his studies at the Digital Filmmaking Program at Shoreline Community College, and he produced the short film, Suspect, as his final(ish) project. An extremely ambitious project for film school, this also marks the first time us Scaringi’s have taken a crack at crowdfunding, and Marco saw the need to take advantage of some of Robyn’s production accounting skills as well as her DIT skills for the project.
As you can see from the picture, Suspect is a noir film, and you might just recognize some of the cast. Like Jason Robison, from our favorite found footage horror film, Eyes in the Dark. Or Rich Morris, from both Pretty Face and Green My Eyes and a recent episode of Grimm. Another fun fact about the film: Suspect was untitled until Robyn read the script and suggested the title to Marco.
Sirens
Robyn Scaringi • Script Supervisor, D.I.T. • Narrative short • RED • November 2011
Loosely based on the story from the Odyssey and written by England-born director Alen Blake, this story starts when a man is inexplicably drawn to strange music he hears in the middle of the forest. Although most of the cast and crew were new to Robyn on the set, she had the unique opportunity to train two PA’s turned newbie script supervisors when it turned out they had less media than expected for the RED and Robyn had to dedicate more time to doing D.I.T. Never a dull moment on a film set, right? Despite the set-back, the power of the RED combined with a good script once again produced some amazing footage, and we know the final film is going to be a good one.
While You Weren’t Looking
Robyn Scaringi • Asst Editor, D.I.T.
Marco Scaringi • Featured Extra
Narrative short • RED • November 2011
While You Weren’t Looking is a narrative comedy short about a kid who sneaks away from her overprotective mother and has a shopping cart mini-adventure in a local grocery store. We were extremely lucky to get to be a part of this picture because the crew was made up of Seattle’s A-List filmmakers. And no wonder: WYWL’s writer/director Jeremy Mackie is one of the best gaffers in town, and an incredibly nice guy to boot, so it wasn’t tough for him to recruit such a top-of-the-line crew.
The main production staging area for While You Weren’t Looking was in a Blockbuster store that went out of business in 2009. The abandoned Blockbuster had a special meaning for the crew because nothing could better symbolize the death of traditional commercial movie retail and the rise of down-home local independent filmmaking than our presence there. But it had an even more ironic meaning for Robyn & Marco: we both worked in a Blockbuster for years, and it’s where the two of us met. We both left ‘The Buster’ (as we like to call it) to eventually get into actual filmmaking.
As the final icing on the cake, the first time Robyn walked into this now defunct Blockbuster, the shoplifter alarm went off, and the entire crew eyed her suspiciously. She laughed as she realized that she had managed to embody the rebellious tone of the film, and she knew: While You Weren’t Looking was going to be a great film that she would not soon forget.