Anthony Lucero’s most recent film, Angels and Wheelchairs, won two awards at the
2007 Alice Film Festival. Selected from hundreds of entries, Angels and Wheelchairs
won in the category of Best Drama/Documentary. The film then went on to win the
overall grand prize for the best film at the festival.
Without sentimentality or pity, the film shows a mother’s love as she cares for her
disabled son, whom she calls a one-hundred-pound angel. Liam Mayclem of CBS’
Eye on the Bay said, “At the judges table, we looked at each other and said, ‘The
film gets high marks for technicality, but it defies categories. There’s no category
for emotional impact.”
In 2005, Lucero wrote and directed the narrative film, I Need My Mocha, which
garnered the Best Short Film at the International Latino Film Festival in San Francisco. His editing prowess can be seen in Eric Escobar’s One Weekend a
Month, which received The Honorable Mention award at the 2005 Sundance
Film Festival.
Lucero has worked in the film industry for over a decade, beginning as a
commercial editor, and then as a Visual Effects Editor at Industrial Light and
Magic, Tippett Studio and The Orphanage. He has edited numerous independent films and documentaries that have won festival awards around the world.
An Oakland, California native, Anthony holds a B. A. in Film from San Francisco State University.
He is currently developing his next feature film script.
Feature Film Credits:
The Spirit, Ironman, I Love You Beth Cooper, The Spiderwick Chronicle, Lemony Snicket, Harry Potter 3, Peter Pan; Pirates of the Caribbean, Men In Black II, Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode II The Clone Wars.