Anthony Parisi is a director, screenwriter, and film editor. He recently wrote and directed the Western Ambush at St. Mary's, which screened at many film festivals across the United States including the Omaha Film Festival, FilmQuest, Dances With Films, IFFBoston, Lone Star Film Festival, San Diego International, and won numerous awards including Best Narrative Short at the 2025 San Diego Film Awards.

As an editor, Anthony has cut award-winning dramas 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 and is currently in development as a feature. Most recently, he edited the feature drama Do No Harm (2025) starring Harry Shum Jr. (Grey’s Anatomy, Glee, Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Ronny Chieng (M3GAN, The Daily Show) and six half-hour episodes of the upcoming television series Frennemis Jurés.

Anthony began his career in college with streaming experiments for New Renaissance Pictures, one of the first online distributors of short films and web series. The young team partnered with Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube for a variety of web-based productions and produced Manifest Destiny: The Lewis & Clark Musical Adventure (2016), a feature comedy and satire based on the web series by co-stars Jeremy Hoffman and Kevin Abrams. The film premiered at 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 Pictures, Hulu, Blizzard, and WME. The team’s innovative 360° Mission: Impossible – Fallout video was a Gold Winner at the Clio Entertainment Awards.

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.