Shaun Paul Piccinino

Shaun Paul Piccinino (Peach-ah-nino) is an award winning Filmmaker and Television Director. He has been pursuing his passion of entertaining through the lens of a avid fan of cinema and story telling. Since his move to Los Angeles from Northern California in 2001, he has worked in just about every aspect of the business. From acting, to action coordinating, from script writing to producing, from editing to visual effects, all the way to feature film directing. His current successes include 4 feature films all currently on Netflix with the chief among them, "A California Christmas" reaching the number 1 most watched spot the world over for several weeks in December of 2020. A few early achievements include the hit Spike TV series, "Deadliest Warrior", where Shaun not only directed many episodes, he also portrayed Scottish hero William Wallace. Shaun has also performed in many projects, from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (video game), "UFC Undisputed 1, 2, & 3" (video game)..."Spider-Man: Web of Shadows" (video game) and "The Lackey" (Award Winning Feature Film). As well as dozens of Visual Effects projects with ACME Film Works and the hit Cartoon Network Series, "Robot Chicken" with Seth Green. In recent years Piccinino completed directing the feature film, "For Honor", an epic World War 2 accounting of Jimmy Doolittle's heroic retaliation mission following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shaun followed that up with directing the following feature films from 2017 to 2020: "American Fighter", A gritty action film set in the early 1980's, "Lady Driver", a film about a 16 year old young woman who dares to become a Race Car Champion in a male dominated sport, "Roped", a rodeo dust up about a Cowboy and small town Girl who fall in love, "Wheels Of Fortune" an over the top comedy that see's a small town tractor mechanic compete in races across the country to win his estranged family fortune and of lastly, "A California Christmas" a heartfelt holiday Rom-com which saw huge success on Netflix in 2020. Piccinino's training began early in life, as his father was a theater professor and stage director at the local university. So Shaun, showing that he had a love for creativity and a thirst to entertain others, was guided in the right direction by his parents. In his home town, Shaun developed a solid reputation for his creative work, from theater productions, to dozens of local commercials, where Shaun impersonated Jim Carey, Tom Cruise, Chris Farley and many more. But Northern California couldn't hold on to him for long, as he was called to Hollywood. Shaun's reputation followed him south, where he continues to build on his reputation of being fun, easy to work with, honest, efficient, and something that producers really love, 'staying on budget while exercising time management throughout the shoot.' *He has trained in Martial Arts, is an AAU National Champion in Martial Arts, a 4th degree Black Belt Shaolin Kung Fu and 1st Degree Black Belt in Okinawan Karate. Shaun was able to use these skills in films, television and 37 action video games to date and even partaking in a shootout atop a moving train on ABC's hit show, "Revolution". "From great sincerity comes great achievement, words I live by while getting to do what I love, creating art and entertainment" -Shaun Piccinino