About
Philip Di Fiore is an award winning filmmaker known for his creative and cinematic approach to storytelling.
The New York Times hailed his feature documentary The Buffalo Hunt as “a striking, poetic look at the Lakota Sioux”. The film won Best Feature Documentary awards and Di Fiore won Best Director and Best Editor awards internationally.
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth, about eccentric synthesizer and funk mastermind Bernie Worrell features David Byrne, George Clinton, and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def). The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and won best film awards in the U.S. and Europe before receiving a special screening at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A 35mm film print of Stranger is part of the permanent collection of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Di Fiore’s music videos/short films have been compared to the work of David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese. He has directed videos and series for Ralph Lauren Denim & Supply, JetBlue, Mattell, Spotify, DFA, Daptone, Fat Possum, Atlantic and Island Records.
Films on Amazon’s Prime Video:
Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth
Antibalas: Live From the House of Soul