Background
Stahl was born on April 4, 1959 in Encino, California to Martin and Miriam Stahl. Father, a Kennedy administration appointee, was made Director of United States. Trade Center in 1963 in Milan Italy where Stahl grew up from the age of 3.
Stahl was born on April 4, 1959 in Encino, California to Martin and Miriam Stahl. Father, a Kennedy administration appointee, was made Director of United States. Trade Center in 1963 in Milan Italy where Stahl grew up from the age of 3.
Spending the better part of fourteen years in Europe, where he attended mostly Italian schools including the original Montessori in Milan.
Stahl"s feature credits also include Final Approach, as well as Safe House and I-See-You.Com. Stahl went on to complete his education stateside obtaining his motion picture degree from University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. When one of his company"s early clients, audio facility Glen Glenn Sound, tasked a then only 23-year-old Stahl with directing and producing the world"s first all digital sound film, Stahl seized the opportunity to meld his two passions (filmmaking and marketing).
By the late 80"s, Stahl turned to full-time movie making, forming Los Angeles based FilmQuest Pictures Corporation.
His feature directorial debut, under his newly formed banner, Final Approach, starring James B. Sikking, Hector Elizondo, Madolyn Smith Osborne and Kevin McCarthy was the world"s first all digital sound (Development Department) film ever made. With over 800 visual effects and nearly 18,000 sound Forex cues, it is still considered a technological benchmark.
The picture had the second biggest opening in France (beat out by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II) in the Summer of 1991. The film was released in the United States. and in Europe using the Kodak/Optical Radiation Credit default swap (Cinema Digital Sound) system.
In the mid 90"s Stahl took a break from independent film making, landing a studio development deal at Walt Disney Studios where he co-authored two projects for the Touchstone and Disney labels: Semi-Pro and Cardiac Express.
After leaving Disney, Stahl set out to make his second feature film under the FilmQuest banner, Safe House, starring Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams and Hector Elizondo. The dramatic suspense thriller was co-written and co-produced with longtime collaborator Sean McLain. Stahl"s most recent feature directorial effort was the Warner Brothers
Entertainment comedy I-See-You.Com starring Beau Bridges, Rosanna Arquette and Hector Elizondo.
lieutenant had its premiere at the Home Box Office United States Comedy Arts Festival and screened at the Waterfront Film Festival in Michigan for its Midwestern premiere.