Profile Information
- Hometown:
- Biloxi, Mississippi
- Current Location:
- New York
- I'm...
- a music video industry professional.
- Website:
- http://myspace.com/packratnyc
- Favorite Music Videos:
- Herbie Hancock "Rockit"
Art of Noise "Close to the Edit"
U.N.K.L.E. "Rabbit In My Headlights"
Duran Duran "Is There Something I Should Know?"
Blind Melon "No Rain"
Guns N' Roses "Don't Cry"
ABC "Poison Arrow"
Golden Earring "Twilight Zone"
The Postal Service "Against All Odds"
- Favorite Music Video Directors:
- Samuel Bayer
Zbigniew Rybczynski
Peter Kagan
Nigel Dick
Russell Mulcahy
- If You Could Work With Any Artist, Who Would It Be?
- Guns N Roses. Everyone on the planet will want to see the first official music video from Chinese Democracy.
- Why Should You Be America's Next Music Video Director?:
- Because my style accenuates the artist's strengths.
- Skills:
- Strong reel.
Directing music videos since 1995.
Final Cut Pro and Avid proficient.
- Equipment:
- my mind, and an Apple MacPro.
- Educational/Professional Affiliations:
- none
- Educational Affiliations:
- alumnus of Manship School of Journalism at LSU, screenwriting seminars at Tulane University.
- Professional Affiliations:
- none
- Music Video Credits:
- Becky Sharp "Beach Ball"
MCA Records
Urbansnake "Orphan"
ETTNO ROC Records
Reality Serum "Here We Go"
Supple Records
Budos Band "The Volcano Song"
Daptone Records
Supple
"Stayin' Alive"
Roadrunner Records
Scott Niolet "Monday Afternoon Rain"
Lapdaddy Records
Gabriela Flores "Rock Your World"
indie CD release
Jason Yudoff "Pride"
indie CD release
Billbones "Danny"
indie CD release
- Other Credits:
- producer and director of over 300 television and radio commercials for Broadway clients as producer at Serino Coyne Inc. 1998 - 2005.
- Favorite Industry Quote:
- "Remember that to succeed you must be prepared to fail brilliantly." - Nigel Dick
Stephen Pitalo's Videos
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Supple "Stayin Alive"
Added by Stephen Pitalo
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Reality Serum "Here We Go"
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Budos Band "Volcano Song"
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