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Director, Producer, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: 1951 in New York City, NY Biography:A writer/director whose light, urbane sensibility launched him to the forefront of the American independent filmmaking movement of the '90s, "Whit Stillman" was born in New York City in 1952. The son of a member of "John F. Kennedy"'s Presidential administration and an impoverished debutante, he was raised in the upstate New York area of Cornwall, and later attended Harvard University, where he wrote humor pieces for the college daily. Upon graduating in 1973, Stillman relocated to Manhattan and began working as a journalist. While in Spain in 1980 for his wedding, he met a group of film producers and attempted to convince them that he could sell their movies to Spanish-language cable television stations in the U.S. The producers ultimately agreed, and Stillman spent the next several years as an international sales agent for Spanish filmmakers including "Fernando Trueba" and "Fernando Colomo". He also... Full Biography
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