Antonio Stellato
DIRECTOR'S BIO
Antonio Stellato is an Italian-Canadian-American filmmaker with a deep-rooted passion for cinema, shaped by seven years of formal film education. He is a graduate of York University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema and Media Studies program and Humber College’s Film and Television Production program. In 2018, he was one of only eight seniors at Humber College selected by a panel of Toronto-based filmmakers to be awarded a prestigious $10,000 student grant to direct his short film Farewell, New York City. Following its production, Humber College granted Stellato an additional $2,500 to create another short film that he had written to represent the program and institution, The Hanged man, which went on to win the People’s Choice Award at the Humber Showcase 2018 screening festival in Toronto.
On Christmas Day 2019, Stellato relocated from Toronto to Los Angeles, where he has built a career as a Coordinator and Associate Producer. In 2021, he Associate Produced the Emmy-nominated documentary Last Flight Home, directed by two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Ondi Timoner. The film, which follows the final two weeks of Timoner’s inspiring father’s life, premiered in the Special Screenings category at Sundance Film Festival 2022 and later screened at Telluride Film Festival 2022. Stellato also played a key role in coordinating the film’s $2.5 million sale to Paramount after its Sundance debut.
Beyond Last Flight Home, Stellato has been instrumental in coordinating several of Interloper Films’ documentaries, including The New Americans: Gaming the Revolution, which premiered at SXSW 2023, and All God’s Children, which debuted at DOC NYC 2024. While his professional career has been deeply rooted in production coordination and producing, he continues to develop his own work as a passionate writer-director from the perspective of an outsider and immigrant in Hollywood. In 2022, he completed a new edit of The Hanged Man, which was showcased at the LA Brightlight Film Festival with the intent to highlight emerging talent, and he is currently finalizing his latest short film, Impressions of a Ghost. The film touches on themes of generational trauma and the underlying influence one’s upbringing and family has on the rest of their lives.
Having spent seven years immersed in the hungry, collaborative and ambitious environment of film school, Stellato dedicates his work to the unfiltered passion that exists unapologetically in the confines of college edit suites around the country. Behind the scenes on major productions or crafting his own films, he strives to bring that same enthusiasm, curiosity, and dedication to every project he undertakes.
