Marc Saltarelli is an award-winning director with work in both narrative and documentary filmmaking. His eight narrative films and three docs have collectively screened in over 250 major film festivals globally.

His feature documentary Studio One Forever, the untold story of America's iconic gay disco, world premiered at Outfest Los Angeles in July 2023 and was selected by over twenty festivals to date including Dances With Films: NYC and BFI London Flare festival in 2024. At the Palm Springs International Film Festival it sold-out four screenings and won the Best of Fest/Audience Favorite Award. It was nominated for a jury award at Austin Film Festival 2023 and won Best LGBT Film at the 2024 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival as well as Audience Favorite wins at multiple festivals.

Also in 2023, he co-produced with director Pauley Perrette the short doc RED RIBBONS OF LOVE, winner of Best Documentary at the Toronto LGBTQ Film Festival.

With producer Michael Childers, his short doc I Knew Andy Warhol was the centerpiece of the Warhol exhibit at the Palm Springs Museum of Art and won best documentary at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival.

With screenwriter Tom O'Leary and producer Park Walkup, TO COMFORT YOU, starring Pauley Perrette (NCIS) and Susan Blakely (This Is Us) won best picture and best drama awards at the Beverly Hills Shortfest. REMEMBER TO BREATHE, starring Lee Meriwether ("Batman"), Susan Blakely, and Leigh Ann Larkin ("A Little Night Music"), earned five BEST PICTURE nominations worldwide.

Marc is a two-time Iris Prize nominee and a Planetout Short Movie Award recipient. Making movies at age 10 with neighbors sparked his life-long passion for filmmaking, rooted in the belief that movies have the power to effect positive change in the world, while still being ridiculously entertaining.