Peter Guzzardo

Peter Guzzardo started his career in entertainment when he wrote and directed the feature film, "Rocky Point" which featured Guzzardo's discovery, "The Smithereens". He also directed the play, "The Facts of Death", wrote and directed the television special, "For Italian Boys Who Ever Considered Moving to California", and directed several episodes of "Compromising Situations" which were produced by Allot productions for "The Showtime Television Network". Later on he became Director of Marketing of Theatrical Features for "Fries Entertainment" where he was responsible for the acquisition, marketing, and theatrical release of over 12 feature films. During his two years at Fries, Peter Guzzardo became well acquainted with the process of buying and selling feature films and has attended every major film market and festival in the industry. In the early nineties, he became an independent producer and cut deals for successful indies like, "Julia Has Two Lovers" starring David Duchovny. He also produced the feature film "Italian Movie", which stars Academy Award Winner Rita Moreno and James Gandolfini, another of Peter's discoveries. The producer of Roberto Monticello's Italian Movie, distributor of Bashar Shbib's Julia has two Lovers, marketer of Fries Entertainments' True Blood, starring Chad Lowe, Viper, starring Linda Pearl, Fast Food, starring Jim (Ernest) Varney, The Siege of Firebase Gloria, starring R Lee Ermey, Friends Lovers and Lunatics, starring Daniel Stern, Grievious Bodily Harm, starring Bruno Lawrence, and many others.