Anthony Stacchi is an American animator, effects animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and film director.
Stacchi at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
Open Season is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation, as its debut film, and Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Roger Allers and Jill Culton and co-directed by Anthony Stacchi, from a screenplay by Nat Mauldin and the writing team of Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman, and a screen story by Culton and Stacchi, based on an original idea by Steve Moore and John B. Carls. The film features an ensemble voice cast starring Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, and Debra Messing. Its plot follows Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear, who is let go into the woods, and teams up with a one-antlered mule deer named Elliot to return back to his old home before open season starts.
Theatrical release poster
Roger Allers and Jill Culton, the directors of the film, at the 34th Annie Awards