Anthony Lucero

Anthony Lucero
Born	Anthony Lucero November 1, 1967 Los Angeles, California, USA

Anthony Lucero (born November 1, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet. He is also known for his work as a multimedia artist and journalist.^[1] He is the founder of the circus outreach organization, Circus Remedy,^[2] as well as the independent publishing house, Putzina Press.^[3]

Writing

Chiron Review published Lucero's "The Living Party" in 1992^[4] and he was widely published in the small press world over the next decade.^[5] He published less over the following years but continued to write.^[6] Editor and archivist Geof Huth has called his work "Incomparable." He has three titles due out in 2015: dear little missy, The Clown and The Living Party.

Lucero has written several screenplays including The Clown and an adaptation of Richard Brautigan's, A Confederate General from Big Sur, for Benicio Del Toro.

Acting

A guest starring role on NBC's Unsub in 1989 was followed by notable performances in such films as HBO's The Image, Pump Up the Volume (Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle FF, Audience Award at the Deauville FF), Silent Rain (Academy Award winning short) and Molder of Dreams. Lucero would later star in the critically acclaimed, Loved (Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best Film, Grand Prix spécial Deauville nominee), opposite William Hurt and Robin Wright.

Acting Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1990	"Coldfire"	Johnny Dove	Directed by Wings Hauser
1990	"Pump Up the Volume"	Malcolm Kaiser	Directed by Allan Moyle
1990	"Boy Wonders"	Rick	Directed by Randy Carter
1991	"Molder of Dreams"	Kent Soderman	Directed by Stephen Stiles
1993	"Silent Rain"	Mick McCandless	Directed by Martin Curland
1997	"Loved"	Defendant	Directed by Erin Dignam
2001	"Cowboy Up"	Jed	Directed by Xavier Koller

Television
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	Unsub	Richard	Season 1, Episode 8
1989	When He's Not a Stranger	Student at Elevator	TV Movie
1990	The Image	Ken, Skinhead Nazi	HBO Movie
1991	The Less-Than-Perfect Daughter	Lee	ABC Afterschool Special
1993	Sirens	Joseph Bendick	Season 1, Episode 2
1993	And the Band Played On	Mailroom Man	HBO Movie
1994	The Search		TV Movie

Directing

Lucero is currently directing a documentary on Richard Brautigan, Here is Something Beautiful (etc.^[7][8] which he began in 2011. In 2012, he directed two music videos for musician, Emily Wells: Passenger (acoustic) and the largely animated Darlin’ (acoustic).^[9] He has also been directing a longer reaching documentary, Tomás the Red Haired Angel, on the Czech clown Tomás Kubínek. In 2016 he will direct his first feature, The Clown,^[10] which he also wrote.

Directing Filmography

Music Videos
Year	Artist	Music Video	Notes
2013	Emily Wells	"Darlin (acoustic)"

Circus Remedy

In 2006 Lucero created the circus outreach organization, Circus Remedy,^[11] with friends Christine Harnos and Terry Notary. To date, Circus Remedy has made over fifty visits to ailing children worldwide and has collaborated with Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Amma's (Mata Amritanandamayi )hospitals and orphanages in Kerala, India, Afghan Mobile Mini Children's Circus in Kabul, Afghanistan, countless orphanages in Tanzania and South Africa, the Jewish and Arab Galilee Youth Circus in Israel, as well as children's hospitals throughout North America.

Putzina Press

In 2014, Lucero co-created Putzina Press with graphic artist Craig Ashby.

References

1. "Chiron Review, Issue 100".
2. "Circus Remedy, More About Us".
3. "Putzina Press".
4. "Chiron Review, Issue 32".
5. "Lilliput Review".
6. "Poets, Painters and Photographers".
7. "Richard Brautigan: Responses > Movies".
8. "Ranvaud trumpets Brautigan projects".
9. "First Look: Emily Wells video, Entertainment Weekly".
10. "The Clown, IMDB".
11. "When Stars Align, Parent & Child Magazine".

External links

• Anthony Lucero at the Internet Movie Database
• www.circusremedy.org