PAIGE SCIARRINO
SAG-AFTRA Eligible
Award Winning Actor & Filmmaker, Producer, Jersey Girl
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New Jersey based. Women owned & operated.
Little Fighter Films produces work with real, flawed, human female leads, usually with New Jersey as the backdrop.
Previous work includes Where the Light Enters (award-winning short film written/directed/produced/starring Paige Sciarrino), The Blue Light Stays On (award-winning short film, available on Amazon Prime Video, written/produced/starring Paige Sciarrino), Rolling (written/produced/starring Paige Sciarrino)
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Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Wendy Faraone
Executive Produced by Bellator Productions, Normal Ave, and Little Fighter Films
Megan seeks justice for a sexual assault no one seems to be taking seriously while a masked madman is murdering women on her college campus.
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Paige Sciarrino founded Little Fighter Films in 2016 after she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Montclair State University's BFA Acting program. She knew that although acting was her first love and passion, she wasn't about to wait around for the phone to ring and wanted to produce her own work upon graduating. Inspired to create stories centered around imperfect but real, whole female characters, Little Fighter Films was born.
She wrote, produced, and starred in short films "Rolling" and "the blue light stays on". The latter won "Best Original Idea" at the Reale Film Festival and took home numerous nominations and awards at the New Jersey Film Awards, including "Best Female Filmmaker" and was then picked up for distribution and is available on Amazon Prime. "Where the Light Enters," her third short film, which she wrote, produced, starred in, as well as directed, deals with her real life experiences of being an actress who recently suffered from third degree burns that left visible scars on her hands, neck, and face. The film was a finalist at the New York Short Film Festival and an Honorable Mention at the Blackbird Film Festival and Semi Finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island and received nothing but positive reviews.
Based in NY/NJ, Paige Sciarrino is an Italian & Syrian award-winning actor and filmmaker, but is also an entrepreneur. She founded Normal Ave, a 501(c)3 non-profit theater company based in Hell's Kitchen NYC and Writer in the Dark, an award winning film collective based in NJ.
Her latest film, Megan Is A Good Girl, is a short-to-feature proof of concept horror film currently in pre-production. Read about it HERE
Megan Is A Good Girl
a revenge-horror film currently in pre-production on the short version, with the intention to produce the feature length version Spring 2025
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Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Jordan Hidalgo
Executive Produced by Normal Ave
Logline for short: When Megan was a freshman in college she was raped. No one believed her and the charges were dropped. It's now senior year and she'll be damned if an attacker gets away twice.
Logline for feature: Megan seeks justice for a sexual assault no one seems to be taking seriously while a masked madman is murdering girls at the college she is currently a senior at.
Kickstarter campaign for short HERE
Feature script is written and currently in the editing phase
Where The Light Enters
short film (2022)
Official selections (as of Feb 2023)
FINALIST - New York Short Film Festival 2022
Early selection NJ Film Awards (Best Drama Short, Best Editing), New York Short Film Festival, Short Films Matter,
BLKBRD Honorable Mention, Coney Island Film Festival, Golden Door Film Festival, Flicker's Rhode Island Int. Film Festival Semi Finalist
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Currently on the 2023 Festival circuit
Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Paige Sciarrino
Mary is an actress who recently suffered third degree burns that left visible scars on her her hands, neck, and face and is now trying to find her place again in a looks-driven industry while battling the voice inside her head.
#SLAAYY
a short horror comedy
Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Paige Sciarrino
"Barbie" to her followers, (Miriam IRL) is a wanna-be influencer with low self-esteem masked by expensive make-up and Facetune. When she gets publicly called out for a bad photoshop job on a recent post, she decides to make her filters permanent.
#SLAAYY is a short horror comedy about how much of themselves young women are willing to lose to be perceived as beautiful.
PRAY
a body-horror feature film (in development)
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Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Jordan Hidalgo
If MJ ever wants to pay off her brother's debt, she's going to have to work for it. Kept in the basement of a seedy strip club until it's her time to dance, Sal, the owner of the club & neighborhood loan shark, forces MJ to perform various backroom acts on his VIP clients (and himself, of course) to eat into the debt her brother owes him. But, when MJ gets bitten by an insect, this shrinking violet transforms into a woman not to be messed with.
Meadowbrook
pilot script / in dev
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Written by Paige Sciarrino
Meadowbrook is a half hour dramedy that follows Cori Vitale, who's mysteriously returned home from NYC to work at her family's NJ cemetery. Old patterns are tested and the front lines of loss are examined, all while this almost 30 year old woman tries to re-figure out a life she thought she already had.
Cemetery Girl
feature film screenplay (2021)
Official selections:
Semi Finalist at the Big Apple Film & Screenplay Competition
After a mysterious meltdown in Los Angeles, 28 year old Cori Vitale is out of money and out of options. She returns to her small New Jersey hometown where she must decide whether or not to leave her visual artist dreams in LA or take over the family business: a cemetery.
Old patterns are tested, the front lines of loss are examined, and the question of whether or not evolving equates to failure are explored in this feature film seen through the eyes of an almost 30 year old woman who thought she already had it all figured out.
the blue light stays on
short film
(2021)
Official selections:
Big Apple FF, Garden State FF, NJ Film Awards, Newark Short Films, Reale FF
Accolades: Best Actress Nominee, Best Supporting Actress, Best Female Filmmaker, Best Original Idea
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Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Allison Andresini
Starring Paige Sciarrino and Elena Barone
Two young women find themselves in a situation that neither is equipped to handle. Set against the backdrop of a peaceful cemetery on a summer's afternoon, this short film explores the sometimes accidental connections we make.
Rolling
short film
(2017)
Official selections:
Golden Door Int FF, Adirondak FF, St. Lawrence Int FF, Miami Independent FF, Womens Only Entertainment FF
Written by Paige Sciarrino
Directed by Steven Flores
Starring Paige Sciarrino and Tony Knotts
Unable to commit to a serious relationship at a young age, Ben keeps his best friend Molly at a distance. After their relationship inevitably hits a wall and he sees her once again years later, Ben is forced to reconcile with the decisions he made in his past that ultimately shaped his entire future.