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Dante Tomaselli is an Italian-American horror screenwriter, director, and score composer. Dante studied filmmaking at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, then transferred to the New York School of Visual Arts, receiving a B.F.A. degree in Advertising there. His first film was a 23-minute short called,... Desecration, which was screened at a variety of horror and mainstream film festivals and venues. Tomaselli later expanded Desecration, which he also wrote, to feature-length. In 1999, the film received its world premiere to a standing-room-only audience at the prestigious Fantafestival in Rome, Italy. Tomaselli has been a lifelong supernatural/horror aficionado and is also the cousin of film director Alfred Sole, whose Alice, Sweet Alice , made its own mark in the world of Catholic-themed horror films twenty-eight years prior. His second feature film, Horror , began principal photography January 15, 2001, in Warwick, New York. It was his first commercially successful film, as well as the first to receive a wide DVD release.
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