Prof. Maurizio Marmorstein
- Associate Professor of Italian Studies
- B.A., Seton Hall University
- M.A., Middlebury College
Professor Marmorstein, an award winning documentary film producer and screenwriter, has taught Italian language and culture for over thirty years. His co-produced short film, Uno degli Ultimi, screened in festivals throughout the world and has won five awards. The documentary on immigration, Beneath the Underdog, produced by Cinetica Films, a Cultural Association co- founded by Professor Marmorstein in 2006, was a finalist the 2009 Rome Fiction Fest.
Specializing in Italian Theater and Film, Professor Marmorstein reaches across academic disciplines to teach courses such as Italian Comedy on Stage and Screen and Italian Culture at the Movies for the Italian Studies Department as well as Adapting Literature for the Screen and Fundamentals of Screenwriting for the Department of Communication. His trilogy of screenplays on the ‘Italian and Italian-American experience’ have been optioned by several distinguished Los Angeles based production companies. The final film in that series, One Night in Asbury Park, has won numerous screenwriting prizes including the Moondance International Atlantis Award in 2009, the 2010 Garden State Film Festival Award for best screenplay, and, just recently, the Joplin Award.
Professor Marmorstein’s writings, including his most recent screenplay, Joyride, are represented by Crossroads Production and Management for whom he is currently developing a screenplay on the tragic life of a noted Italian-American in the 1960’s boxing world, Frankie Depaula.
