Raymond De Felitta

Raymond De Felitta
De Felitta at the 2014 Miami International Film Festival
Born	(1964-06-30) June 30, 1964 (age 52) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Other names	Raymond DeFelitta Ray DeFelitta Raymond de Fellita
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, musician
Years active	1986–present
Spouse(s)	Sherry Brennan (m. 2001)

Raymond De Felitta (born June 30, 1964) is an American independent film director, screenwriter and musician.

De Felitta was born in New York City. His father Frank De Felitta was Italian American and his mother Dorothy Gilbert De Felitta was of Polish Jewish descent. De Felitta graduated from Bard College in 1985 and the American Film Institute's directing program, class of 1990.

That same year he was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 63rd Academy Awards for his AFI thesis short, Bronx Cheers. In 1991 he was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his screeplay "Begin The Beguine". In 1995 he wrote and directed Cafe Society starring Frank Whaley, Peter Gallagher and Lara Flynn Boyle. The film premiered in Director’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and was shown on the Showtime Network in 1996. It was released theatrically in 1997. In 2000 De Felitta directed the indie film Two Family House which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival along with an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Screenplay. The film was voted the second best reviewed film of the year (after “Almost Famous”) in a poll conducted by the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2003 he directed Paul Reiser's The Thing About My Folks which received the Audience Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The film was released in 2005 by Picture House. In 2006 De Felitta directed his first documentary 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris, which won the Best Jazz Documentary at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee. The film was released in 2007 by Outsider Pictures.