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Joe Stassi Original Gangster

FORMAT | Feature Documentary
STATUS | Production completed. Raising finishing funds.

“I want to tell what really happened ­ it’s never been told.” - MAFIA DON JOSEPH STASSI

OVERVIEW OF PROJECT | The original gangster, 95-year-old Mafia don Joseph Stassi breaks a lifetime of silence in this documentary, which takes viewers inside the mind and soul of a gangster. The man who plotted the hit of Dutch Schutz, Stassi is one of the founding fathers organized crime the connection between the Italians (Lucky Luciano, frank Costello, Vito Genevese) and the Jews (Meyer Lansky, Ben Siegel and Longy Zwyllman). His remarkable life encapsulates the history of crime in the 20th century. Ultimately, this film reveals a killer’s judgment on his own life as he faces a lonely death.

Pharrell Williams has committed to creating an original score for the film.