Matteo A. Cucchiara

Matteo Cucchiara, originally from Riverheard, Long Island, New York, is an Executive Producer of the film "The Price", scheduled to be released in the spring of 2014 and "Angel Camouflaged" also scheduled to be released in the spring of 2014. Mr. Cucchiara has been involved in the financial world for over 25 years as a resident of Weston, Florida. He has been featured in, and has written numerous articles for magazines and sports journals. Matteo is the author of the newly published best seller "Defying the Mob: Secrets Revealed", based upon the true story of former FBI #3, Susan Weeks. "Defying the Mob" is scheduled to go into development shortly. Matteo is the author of the novel "Earthkill" and recently finished a screenplay of the same name. He is the author of a children's short story, "Children of the Magical Forest," and is presently working on the novel and screenplay for a thriller called "Channel". He wrote the rewrite of the screenplay "Sight Unseen" (originally called "Vision"), which won the Florida Crystal Reel award and was a finalist in the Hollywood International Screenwriting competition. He also has recently completed the novel based upon the same true story. He also wrote the screenplay for the horror film "The Flatwoods Monster",which is in development & is working on "The Tenth Symphony", a musical fantasy, also in development. Matteo was a former analyst for Doubleday Publishing Company and is a member of "The International Who's Who of Poetry". He speaks five languages,received both a BA and a BS from Fordham University and attended graduate school at New York University. Matt was an All-American track star, a champion wrestler, an international champion long distance runner, a champion cyclist who rode the Tour de France course, and a nationally ranked tri-athlete. On January 26, 2013, Matteo was inducted to Fordham University's Athletic Hall of Fame, where he joins athletes such as Vince Lombardi, and on April 27, 2013 he was inducted to the Penn Relays' "Wall of Fame" with 3 teammates on the record setting championship of America team which will join just 89 others on the famous wall of the largest (22,000 participants/year) and longest running (since 1894) relay championships in the world. Matteo was a classmate of and is a long-time friend of Disney Productions President Alan Horn. Matteo is presently a resident of Weston, Florida where he lives with his wife, actress/singer/writer/composer Violeta Leskyte Cucchiara and son, Redshirt Freshman, University of Iowa Defensive End, Daumantas Venckus-Cucchiara.