David Stagnari

David Stagnari, aka DJ Slave / D.S. Slave / Slave is a writer/director/music supervisor who started making 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm films as a teen. He studied film at SVA - School of Visual Arts in New York City. He was a freelance writer contributing to Spin, Alternative Press, Reflex and Project X magazines. In 1985 he started a long and successful career as an influential New York nightclub disc jockey know as DJ Slave. His DJ career created other avenues for creativity including directing music videos, composing and producing alternative/electronic/ industrial dance music culminating in music for the multi-platinum selling Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack. Other music credits include writing, programming and producing two albums for the band BILE as well as electronic dance music for Roadrunner Records. He retired from nightclubs in 1999 and returned to film making spending four years writing, directing and producing an experimental film based on a psychology test titled Catharsis. He was featured in a documentary on the tribulations of five filmmakers titled Horror Business. Stagnari also spent five years producing and directing a documentary titled Autism Paints about a painter with autism who illegally created an art school inside an abandoned gas station for special needs children and war veterans. A music and movie enthusiast his whole life, he is currently directing commercials and writing the screenplay for an ambitious feature film passion project to direct.