Marc Scarpa is the executive board member and the founding New York Chair of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council and a recipient of the Marc A Levey distinguished service award.
22 Facts About Marc Scarpa
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In 1995, Marc Scarpa got the attention of former CBS News supervising producer Win Baker through news stories he produced on Beyond 2000.
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Marc Scarpa produced the live stream broadcast of the concert from its location in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for sonicnet.
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In collaboration with the same event partners, Marc Scarpa produced subsequent broadcasts for the 1997 and 1998 festivals respectively.
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On November 8,1999, Marc Scarpa produced and directed the first presidential Webcast with President Bill Clinton for the Excite@Home Network in partnership with the Democratic Leadership Council.
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At the turn of the century, Marc Scarpa began producing under his new business moniker, Simply New.
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Marc Scarpa again employed similar participatory media techniques specifically utilizing crowd-sourced photography from the MySpace community.
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The ensuing result for Marc Scarpa was a real time documentary shot from a first person perspective, which he weaved in and out of the artist performances during the HD streaming broadcast.
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Marc Scarpa was asked to produce and direct the first-annual charity gala, which featured hosts Leeza Gibbons, Olivia Newton-John and entertainment director, David Foster.
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Marc Scarpa developed, produced and directed the Webby Award winning first GRAMMY Live as a participatory online experience for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards.
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Marc Scarpa, who is a voting member of the Recording Academy, was invited back for a second installment, which mirrored the first participatory video experience for the 53rd GRAMMY Awards show as an executive producer.
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Marc Scarpa is a member of the Global Advisory Committee along with notable figures such as Al Gore, Martin Scorsese, Shaquille O'Neal and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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In 2011 Marc Scarpa, continued breaking new ground in participatory media with the launch of the first social TV network, Vidblogger Nation, through Comcast's XFinity On Demand.
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The participatory experience that Marc Scarpa directed minimized the gap between The X Factor's live performances and the audience at home, making the audience participants in the program as opposed to passive viewers.
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Recently, Marc Scarpa has been in charge of assembling the Producer Guild's Digital VIP and has been involved in putting on the Digital VIP Salon Event series.
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Marc Scarpa put together the PGA Digital VIP's Awards ceremony that honored Bill Westenhofer, Ben Donovan, and Conan O'Brien, Ed Ulbrich, John Lasseter, Jim Carrey, and more in 2013.
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Marc Scarpa participated in the PGA Digital VIP's annual ceremony that honored Ted Sarandos, Alfonso Cuaron, and Rob Thomas on June 6,2014.
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In 2013, Marc Scarpa partnered up with Mobovivo to create a 2nd Screen App for Time Warner Cable SportsNet.
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On January 1,2014, Marc Scarpa directed and produced the livestream experience for the Imagine Dragons show at Allstate's annual Fan Fest in New Orleans.
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In late 2013, Marc Scarpa became involved with a live broadcast for Covered California as the Executive Producer.
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Marc Scarpa produced and directed the live stream broadcast of the festival which included musical performances by Jimmy Buffett and the John Butler Trio performing live on a shark mouth-shaped stage, a 60-foot mechanical Sharkzilla which chomped various items on the hour, as well as shark trivia competitions and interviews.
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Marc Scarpa has been a featured speaker at NATPE 2013 - 2016.