Youssef Spartacus Kdiry
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Executive
A Cinematic (and Completely Non-Biased) Hagiography
1970s
Born in the barbaric land of Nova Caesarea (New Jersey) the same year eventual Best Picture Oscar®-winner The Godfather was released, this talented-but-humble multi-hyphenate pinpoints Jaws as his earliest movie-going occurrence during the summer of 1975. It was a religious experience that was repeated in May 1977, when a low-key science-fiction/fantasy named Star Wars graced those first 32 screens-one of which Lil' Youssef dragged his father to at the Hudson Mall Cinema in sunny Jersey City, NJ that fateful Wednesday.
1980s
School, fast food, martial arts training, mullets, pop music & totally '80s movies starring: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Sho Kosugi, Jean-Claude Van Damme & Dolph Lundgren.
1990s
After earning a B.A., Media Arts degree at New Jersey City University-with a stopover at the storied New York University to immerse himself in their popular Film & Video Production curriculum--Youssef landed at HBO, spending a decade reviewing movies for the HBO/Cinemax channels. Apparently, the opportunity to screen/ program thousands of movies (and getting paid to do so) was too great a temptation to pass up...even for the budding filmmaker on the cusp of the New Millennium and forthcoming Digital Revolution.
2000s
Youssef put his versatile talents into developing & launching his multimedia production firm, The MoonStar Film Odyssey (www.moonstarfilmodyssey.com)-a flourishing bastion of creativity & production that has transcended some recent difficult years into new and exciting endeavors.
2007-09
Youssef embarked on yet another odyssey through academia and earned an M.F.A., Motion Pictures & TV degree at the prestigious Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA)-where his two screenwriting theses have become the nexus for The MFO's cinematic endeavors into the higher echelons of the motion picture industry.
Present
In addition to developing this movie, Youssef and The MFO have another two-dozen high concept movie projects in the development pipeline-ideally to be shot on film stock (35mm or 65mm) and lensed in the anamorphic widescreen format (e.g. Panavision®). Each movie project will have companion marketing/branding websites & social media outlet pages connected to it-all created & developed (in prelude) by the lad from Nova Caesarea.
1970s
Born in the barbaric land of Nova Caesarea (New Jersey) the same year eventual Best Picture Oscar®-winner The Godfather was released, this talented-but-humble multi-hyphenate pinpoints Jaws as his earliest movie-going occurrence during the summer of 1975. It was a religious experience that was repeated in May 1977, when a low-key science-fiction/fantasy named Star Wars graced those first 32 screens-one of which Lil' Youssef dragged his father to at the Hudson Mall Cinema in sunny Jersey City, NJ that fateful Wednesday.
1980s
School, fast food, martial arts training, mullets, pop music & totally '80s movies starring: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Sho Kosugi, Jean-Claude Van Damme & Dolph Lundgren.
1990s
After earning a B.A., Media Arts degree at New Jersey City University-with a stopover at the storied New York University to immerse himself in their popular Film & Video Production curriculum--Youssef landed at HBO, spending a decade reviewing movies for the HBO/Cinemax channels. Apparently, the opportunity to screen/ program thousands of movies (and getting paid to do so) was too great a temptation to pass up...even for the budding filmmaker on the cusp of the New Millennium and forthcoming Digital Revolution.
2000s
Youssef put his versatile talents into developing & launching his multimedia production firm, The MoonStar Film Odyssey (www.moonstarfilmodyssey.com)-a flourishing bastion of creativity & production that has transcended some recent difficult years into new and exciting endeavors.
2007-09
Youssef embarked on yet another odyssey through academia and earned an M.F.A., Motion Pictures & TV degree at the prestigious Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA)-where his two screenwriting theses have become the nexus for The MFO's cinematic endeavors into the higher echelons of the motion picture industry.
Present
In addition to developing this movie, Youssef and The MFO have another two-dozen high concept movie projects in the development pipeline-ideally to be shot on film stock (35mm or 65mm) and lensed in the anamorphic widescreen format (e.g. Panavision®). Each movie project will have companion marketing/branding websites & social media outlet pages connected to it-all created & developed (in prelude) by the lad from Nova Caesarea.