Marc Fusco began working in 1990 as producer, writer and director of several short narrative films and three documentaries. In 1993, Fusco moved from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles and became a feature script reader for MGM studios. After a year in the development department at the studio level, and then as an assistant in Warner Bros.' Feature Estimating department for a short time, Fusco's passion shifted back toward filmmaking and in 1994, he began working in the production department at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.
After gaining valuable experience alongside Oscar-winning producers of large-budget films, Fusco was handpicked by Spielberg to work closely with the director as his personal assistant. Throughout the next four years, he followed the Academy Award-winning director around the world, assisting him on the films The Lost World, Amistad and Saving Private Ryan. In addition to production, he assisted partner/owner Spielberg during the start-up of DreamWorks, SKG, the first full-fledged studio to be created in over 80 years.
During his tenure with Spielberg, Fusco directed and produced a short film entitled The Interview that premiered at the 1998 Venice International Film Festival. He was also hired by DreamWorks to write the black comedy The Reel Killers after selling the pitch over a cell phone from the set of Saving Private Ryan in Ireland. The comedy is based in fact on the nationally recognized Silent Movie Theater murder that happened only months prior in Hollywood.
In 2000, Fusco started The Nickel Palace ( www.nickelpalace.com ) with partners Mike Gabrawy and Michael Garrity and directed his first feature film, Stealing Time, which garnered a worldwide release through Franchise Pictures. Fusco has recently completed writing the romantic thriller Soul of a Man and the dark comedy Buried in the Desert. His next feature film will be the comedy You Can't Win, written by 187 scribe Scott Yagemann.
Fusco writes, directs and edits music videos through his company The Nickel Palce. In 2005, he directed the video "Alone" for artist Malina Moye which won the Los Angeles Music Awards' "R&B Video of the Year" prize. Check out the video at www.malinamoye.com .
