Anthony Parisi is a director, screenwriter, and film editor. He recently wrote and directed the Western Ambush at St. Mary's, which screened at film festivals across the United States including San Diego International, FilmQuest, IFFBoston, Omaha Film Festival, Dances With Films, Lone Star Film Festival, and won numerous awards including Best Narrative Short at the 2025 San Diego Film Awards.
As an editor, Anthony has cut award-winning shorts such as The Hour After Westerly (2019), Alone (2020), The Way That I Take (2020), and Dixieland (2023), which have screened at the Austin Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, HollyShorts, and the Newport Beach Film Festival. Alone garnered over a million views on the sci-fi platform DUST to great acclaim and is currently in development as a feature. Most recently, he edited the feature Do No Harm (2025) starring Harry Shum Jr. (Grey’s Anatomy, Glee, Everything Everywhere All At Once), Rosaline Elbay (Ramy, The Diplomat), Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, M3GAN), Jimmy Gonzales (The Odyssey) and six half-hour episodes of the upcoming television series Frennemis Jurés.
Anthony began his career in college with streaming experiments on WebSerials.com. The young student team partnered with YouTube and Hulu for distribution, leading to Manifest Destiny: The Lewis & Clark Musical Adventure (2016), a feature-length comedy and satire based on the web series by duo Jeremy Hoffman and Kev Abrams. The micro-budget film premiered at The Frida Cinema and the Macon Film Festival and was released on Blu-ray and streaming platforms.
Anthony has robust post-production experience as an editor and visual effects artist, notably with Tiny Dino on marketing campaigns for major studios and clients such as Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, A24, Searchlight, Blizzard, and WME. The team’s innovative 360° Mission: Impossible – Fallout video was a Gold Winner at the Clio Entertainment Awards. Recent films include Materialists, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, GOAT, Anaconda, Karate Kid: Legends, and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil.
Anthony also contributed a chapter on film editing and cinematic style for A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick published by Lexington Books. He lives in San Diego with his wife Sarah and twin daughters.
