Lorenzo DeStefano
Writing
Biography
Born in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Lorenzo DeStefano is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, film editor, and photographer. A member of the Directors Guild of America and former member of the Motion Picture Editor’s Guild, he has produced and directed network series, documentaries, and narrative films, worked in U.S. and U.K. Theater, and written fiction, non-fiction, original screenplays, and adaptations. DeStefano’s feature documentaries as producer/director include “From A Darkened Room-The Diary of A Nobody” about Arthur Crew Inman, author of 17-million word “Inman Diary”, “Hearing is Believing” about the gifted young musician and composer, Rachel Flowers, “Los Zafiros-Music From The Edge Of Time” about the Beatles of 1960s Cuba, and “Talmage Farlow” a portrait of the American jazz guitarist. DeStefano’s screenplays include “House Boy”, a 5-Part Limited Series based on his novel , “The Diarist”, a 5-Part Limited Series based on “The Inman Diary”, and the narrative features “Shipment Day”, “Lads”, “Deep Inside”, “Cropper’s Cabin”, from the novel by Jim Thompson, “Appointment in Samarra”, from the novel by John O’Hara, “Waiting for Nothing”, from the novel by Tom Kromer, and “Creeps”, from the play by David E. Freeman. Narrative films as writer/producer include “The Diarist” and “House Boy”. Narrative films as writer/producer/director include the 2023 short film “Stairway to the Stars”, starring Sean Young and Quinton Aaron, and “Shipment Day”, an upcoming screen adaptation of his prize-winning play about his cousin, the noted Hawai’i author and human rights activist Olivia Robello Breitha (1916-2006). In addition to “House Boy”, his award-winning debut novel, DeStefano is author of the memoir “Visitations – Finding A Secret Relative In Modern-Day Hawaii”, the photographic memoir “La Hora Magica/The Magic Hour – A Photographer’s Journeys Through Cuba”, the short story and novella collection “Wild Places”, the essay “On Knowing Daniel Aaron”, “Diary of a Nobody”, a feature article for The Guardian, and the cinema memoir “Callé Cero–An Encounter with Cuban Film Director Tomas Gutierrez Alea”. DeStefano’s career in motion picture film editing includes “The Blue Lagoon”, “Making Love”, “That Championship Season”, “Dreamscape”, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”, “Thrashin’”, “Winners Take All”, “The Killing Time”, and “Gingerale Afternoon”. He was Supervising Film Editor, Producer, and Director during the 4 season/83 episode run of the acclaimed, Emmy-winning ABC/Warner Brothers drama series, “Life Goes On”. Lorenzo DeStefano FORESIGHT RELEASING P.O. BOX 2063 VENTURA, CA. 93002 805 302-2480 www.lorenzodestefano.com lorenzo@lorenzodestefano.com =======================
Known For
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known as Corky. Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome.
Life Goes On
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Dreamscape
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks terrorizing the locals at Venice Beach. When Corey starts dating Tommy's kid sister Chrissy, the Daggers are furious. The boys then take their beef to the "L.A. Massacre," a deadly skate race down a canyon road.
Thrashin'
Janey is new in town. She soon meets Lynne, a classmate who shares her passion for the local show 'Dance TV'. When a competition is announced to find new Dance TV performers, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.
Body Rock
After a psychopath murders a man who was on his way to a job as a deputy sheriff in a small California town, he assumes the deputy's identity and arrives in town to start his new 'job'. What he doesn't know is that the recently appointed sheriff and his mistress are plotting to murder her evil husband—and blame it on the new deputy.
The Killing Time
Billy Robinson has become the hottest hot-rodder on the professional motorcycle-racing circuit. But when he returns in triumph to his hometown to bask in all the adulation, he also skids into some pretty rank jealousy from envious motorcycling wanna-bes. And when a local race is organized, Billy must shift gears completely and compete against his best friend, Rick, for the top prize.
Winners Take All
Jesse is nine months pregnant and lives with her underemployed husband Hank in a dilapidated mobile home in a rusty trailer park and they spend an afternoon arguing about the problems they're having in their lives.
Ginger Ale Afternoon
A documentary about the life and career of American jazz guitarist Tal Farlow
Talmage Farlow
Music, history, and emotion fuel this dynamic, award-winning tribute to Los Zafiros, the Beatles of 1960s Cuba. Thirty years after their breakup, the two surviving band members, Manuel Galban and Miguel Cancio, reunite in the streets of present-day Havana, a place full of unforgettable songs and memories for them and for their still-loyal fans. Family members, fellow artists, and friends weigh in, creating a stirring and definitive portrait of The Sapphires.
Los Zafiros: Music from the Edge of Time
Olivia was a young girl in 1930s Honolulu, engaged to be married, with everything to live for, until a man knocked on her door one day and changed her life forever.
Shipment Day
In a world filled with Noise, there is another Sound worth Hearing, and her name is Rachel Flowers. "Hearing is Believing" introduces the world to the life and music of the multi-talented 23-year old musician and composer, Rachel Flowers.