Aimee Pitta, HHS class of 1982, titles movies in Hollywood
Hicksville High alum Aimee Pitta calls herself lucky.
The class of 1982 grad, who attended Nassau Community College for two years before enrolling at SUNY Oswego, was an aspiring writer after college when she was offered a job with a movie company in California.
“I’ve been in film marketing for the past 25 years and I work on writing and producing trailers and TV spots for movies. I also have a little niche job where I title films. I’ve titled It’s Complicated, No Strings Attached, the new Barbara Streisand movie, The Guilt Trip, Mirror Mirror with Julia Roberts and The Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Anniston,” said Pitta.
Pitta, who attended Holy Family School as a youngster, recently released her first published book, Happily Ever Before, which she co-wrote with actress Melissa Peterman (Baby Daddy, Reba, The Singing Bee).
“It’s a fun little book – a ‘chick-lit’ novel that Melissa and I wrote together. We came up with this concept of two sisters who would do anything for each other but wondered what would happen if one needed the other to have her baby? We decided it would make a good book and we just started writing,” Pitta explained.
Though she now calls Los Angeles home, Pitta keeps Hicksville close to her heart.
“I miss my family. The high school seems much smaller now. You can’t beat Raimos Pizza or the Hicksville Sweet Shop. I guess everybody grows and moves on, but I still love my hometown,” Pitta said.
Happily Ever Before is available at Barnes & Noble and on Amazon, where 24 readers gave the book a five-star review.
And though luck may have brought the New Yorker to Los Angeles, Pitta’s success doesn’t appear to have come by chance.
For more information, visit www.happilyeverbefore.net.
