ABOUTUS
SPOT UP SHOOTER PRODUCTIONS
Spot Up Shooter Productions is committed to developing narrative features and shorts, TV, and digital media. Our focus will always be character driven material. We aspire to tell stories that shift or challenge our perceptions of the world, while empowering people of color behind and in front of the camera.
Antonio Macia - Founder
Antonio, is a Latinx independent filmmaker, a Blacklist writer, Spirit Award nominee, Sundance alum, FIND Screenwriting Fellow, and a proud member of WGA. He has over fifteen years of experience with four feature films (Affluenza, Anne B. Real, Holy Rollers, BlackJack: The Jackie Ryan Story) to his credit, and has recently broken into TV setting up Halfway, a gritty one-hour drama at Universal TV with Queen Latifah starring and producing. He is also faculty member at AFI Conservatory in Hollywood, where he teaches screenwriting.
Antonio never turned out to be the Formula 1 racer his dad dreamed, but instead is an NBA junkie, blacktop 3-specialist, sports enthusiast, and still plays soccer every Wednesday night with his friends. He also teaches Sunday school, and is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He served a two-year mission in Toronto, Canada. His parents instilled a love of traveling, and he has studied and lived in Paris, Madrid, and spent time in Argentina on his grandfather’s ranch.
He wrote and co-starred in his first feature, ANNE B. REAL. The coming-of-age drama went on to win several awards and was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. His follow up, HOLY ROLLERS is a drama that tells the story of a young Hasidic Jew swept into the world of ecstasy drug smuggling. The film's cast is led by Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Dramatic Competition and France's prestigious Deauville Film Festival culminating in an IFP Gotham Spirit Award Win for Breakthrough Film. Macia's third film, AFFLUENZA, was released by FilmBuff in July 2014. He wrote and co-produced the film, again collaborating with Kevin Asch as director. Antonio’s fourth feature BLACKJACK: THE JACKIE RYAN STORY was released in October 2020. The family drama set in the world of NYC street basketball was directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and stars Greg Finley, David Arquette, Ashley Greene, and Michael Rappaport.
Antonio lives in LA, where he has been writing for some of Hollywood's most prolific producers. Recently, Macia set up “HALFWAY”, a one-hour cable drama that centers on a Philadelphia halfway house, starring, and executive produced by Queen Latifah at Universal TV. He also wrote “MOLZ”, a Sci-Fi drama for Pablo Cruz (Sin Nombre) and famed Mexican director director, Beto Hinojosa.
He is currently reworking the feature project UP RIVER, a Blacklist script that he co-wrote with Academy Award nominated director Scott Kennedy. Up River was recently selected for the 2018 PGA Diversity Program with Mandalay and Michael Jenson attached to produce.
Prior to that, Antonio adapted the controversial biography ROUGH STONE ROLLING, about Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church. He has also completed KINGS HIGHWAY with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions. Antonio has written Porter Rockwell, a Western set in the Utah Territory of 1850, for Michael Mailis of Hyperion Media Group. Antonio has also partnered with Latin heavyweights Canana Entertainment to develop 49, a mini-series that uncovers the corruption behind the tragic ABC Day Care fire of 2009.