A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Stephen Di Gravio is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer, director, and producer known for character-driven, working-class stories that blend melancomedy—melancholy and comedy—with sincerity and heart. Raised by his Nonno and Nonna in the suburbs of Newcastle, Stephen’s passion lies in exploring empathy and understanding through storytelling, often through a multicultural lens. A co-founder of KIT3, Stephen has produced films with support from the City of Melbourne and the Victorian Multicultural Commission, including Good Gnocchi, a short documentary paying homage to his family, and White Side, a feature documentary exploring intergenerational trauma through a Vietnamese-Australian filmmaker’s search for his secret half-sister. Stephen's work has been recognised by festivals including SXSW Sydney, the Sony Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, and Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival. His postgraduate short Anna was selected for the 2023 Cannes Short Film Corner and received an Australian Directors Guild Award nomination. Currently working freelance, Stephen continues to develop short and long-form creative projects.
Director:
2021 Good Gnocchi
2022 Anna
Director of Photography:
2021 Good Gnocchi
2022 Anna
2022 Rained Out
Editor:
2021 Good Gnocchi
2022 Anna
2022 Rained Out
First Assistant Director:
2021 Good Gnocchi
2021 My Box and Me
2022 Anna
2022 Rained Out
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Producer:
2021 Good Gnocchi
2021 My Box and Me
2022 Anna
2022 Rained Out
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Writer:
2021 Good Gnocchi
2021 My Box and Me
2022 Anna
2022 Rained Out
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Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.