Trivia

Is a speaker at college and university seminars on low-budget movie making.

His first feature film, A Polish Vampire in Burbank, produced in 1983 for $2500, was the most inexpensive feature film ever to run on USA Network in the 1990s.

Produced a yearly "Marky Fun Tape" for friends and family from 1995 to 2016, which consisted of events from the previous year.

Has written, produced and/or directed eleven feature films since 1983. Most of his works were self-funded.

Came up with his company name "Pirromount" when he was 13, shooting short movies on Super 8mm film in upstate New York.

Many of Pirro's actors go as far back as the beginning of his filmmaking. John McCafferty has appeared in almost all of Pirro's films (including two short films made in 1978 and 1979, "Buns" and "The Spy Who Did It Better"). Ron Curtiss appeared in 1978's "Buns," "Color-Blinded" (1998), "Rectuma" (2003) and "The God Complex" (2009). Tyrone Dubose' appeared in "A Polish Vampire in Burbank" (1983), Color-Blinded (1998), Rectuma (2003), The God Complex (2009), "Rage of Innocence" (2014), and Celluloid Soul (2017). Actor Jim Bruce appeared in every one of Pirro's feature films from 1983's "A Polish Vampire in Burbank" to 1998's "Color-Blinded." Bruce's association with Pirro's films ended when he died in 1999.