A Kiss in the Wind, a documentary directed by Nicola Moruzzi, which was selected for the final shortlist at the 2016 edition of the David di Donatello Awards.

[8] In 2019 he composed the music score for Il talento del calabrone, the first feature film directed in Italian by Giacomo Cimini, with Sergio Castellitto and Anna Foglietta, released in 2020 and distributed by Amazon Prime Italy.

In the score Scarlato incorporates Afrobeats elements to his own music style, drawing inspiration from the cultural background of the film's male protagonist, Nabil.

[10] In 2023 Scarlato composed the score for Folle d’amore - Alda Merini, the bio-pic of the famous Italian poet, directed by Roberto Faenza and produced by RAI.

Scarlato commented: “Faenza gave me a lot of space, the music is at times intense and deep, I am very satisfied”.

[11][12] In 2024 he worked on the soundtrack of documentary Pompei - The New Dig, directed by Elena Mortelliti, and produced by Lion Television for BBC2 and Iplayer.

His two operas, Fadwa (2013) and La tregua di Natale, have been produced and staged by Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Nuova Consonanza.

[19] In 2018 he conducted the closing concert at the International Spring Festival in Malta, with a programme featuring Bartok, Lutoslawski, and two world premieres.

[30] The project started around 2009 with the recording of the demos of Blue, Brown and Yellow and was completed only a decade later; it draws inspiration from an eclectic range of composers, Yann Tiersen, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Max Richter among them.

In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, Scarlato joined forces with poet Laura-Jane Foley, who composed poems for each colour for the live performances.