Born in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Lorenzo DeStefano is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, film editor, and photographer. A member of the Directors Guild of America and former member of the Motion Picture Editor’s Guild, he has produced and directed network series, documentaries, and narrative films, worked in U.S. and U.K. Theater, and written fiction, non-fiction, original screenplays, and adaptations. DeStefano’s feature documentaries as producer/director include “From A Darkened Room-The Diary of A Nobody” about Arthur Crew Inman, author of 17-million word “Inman Diary”, “Hearing is Believing” about the gifted young musician and composer, Rachel Flowers, “Los Zafiros-Music From The Edge Of Time” about the Beatles of 1960s Cuba, and “Talmage Farlow” a portrait of the American jazz guitarist.

DeStefano’s screenplays include “House Boy”, a 5-Part Limited Series based on his novel , “The Diarist”, a 5-Part Limited Series based on “The Inman Diary”, and the narrative features “Shipment Day”, “Lads”, “Deep Inside”, “Cropper’s Cabin”, from the novel by Jim Thompson, “Appointment in Samarra”, from the novel by John O’Hara, “Waiting for Nothing”, from the novel by Tom Kromer, and “Creeps”, from the play by David E. Freeman.

Narrative films as writer/producer include “The Diarist” and “House Boy”.

Narrative films as writer/producer/director include the 2023 short film “Stairway to the Stars”, starring Sean Young and Quinton Aaron, and “Shipment Day”, an upcoming screen adaptation of his prize-winning play about his cousin, the noted Hawai’i author and human rights activist Olivia Robello Breitha (1916-2006). In addition to “House Boy”, his award-winning debut novel, DeStefano is author of the memoir “Visitations – Finding A Secret Relative In Modern-Day Hawaii”, the photographic memoir “La Hora Magica/The Magic Hour – A Photographer’s Journeys Through Cuba”, the short story and novella collection “Wild Places”, the essay “On Knowing Daniel Aaron”, “Diary of a Nobody”, a feature article for The Guardian, and the cinema memoir “Callé Cero–An Encounter with Cuban Film Director Tomas Gutierrez Alea”.

DeStefano’s career in motion picture film editing includes “The Blue Lagoon”, “Making Love”, “That Championship Season”, “Dreamscape”, “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”, “Thrashin’”, “Winners Take All”, “The Killing Time”, and “Gingerale Afternoon”. He was Supervising Film Editor, Producer, and Director during the 4 season/83 episode run of the acclaimed, Emmy-winning ABC/Warner Brothers drama series, “Life Goes On”.