Salvatore Stabile

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Biography

Far from leaving home at 17 because his parents threw him out, Stabile hailed from a solid working-class family, but the Cinderella facts remained equally fantastic in the light of the more mundane truth. "Gravesend" (1997), the movie he began shooting at age 19, debuted at the 1996 Seattle Film Festival, and within months Bob Bookman of the Creative Artists Agency had signed him, Oliver Stone had agreed to take a presentation credit on the …
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Job Title

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor

Born

October 1, 1974

Career Milestones

"Gravesend" accepted as a work in progress by third annual Hamptons International Film Festival on Long Island

Exposure at festival led to individuals investing $60K

Grew up in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood known as Gravesend

Negotiated two-picture deal with DreamWorks SKG

1992

Graduated form a Catholic high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY and moved to Manhattan to share a one-bedroom apartment with his maternal grandmother

1994

Began shooting "Gravesend"

1996

"Gravesend" debuted at the Seattle Film Festival

1996

Signed by Robert Bookman of Creative Artists Agency

1997

"Gravesend" opened with the words "Oliver Stone Presents" appearing above the title