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Stelio Savante

Stelio Savante

2 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20132021

Born 24 April 1970 · Cape Town, South Africa

A South African born New Yorker with over three decades of versatile, award winning performances in popular, world-wide theatrically released studio & independent films, prime-time & cable television & New York theater. After small speaking roles opposite Russell Crowe in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001) & David Chase's The Sopranos (1999) as Gaetano; his breakthrough lead role came in 2005 on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) directed by Oscar winner Juan José Campanella. Starring opposite Mariska Hargitay, Chris Meloni, & Bradley Cooper as the chilling yet engaging fundamentalist Milan Zergin.

How their films are shot

Measured across 234 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stelio takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Stelio takes.

Time of day

Day58%
Night36%
Dusk4%

Lighting

Natural49%
Low key41%
High key6%

Shot size

Medium46%
Wide18%
Closeup18%
Fullbody11%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral49%
Tense21%
Lonely15%
Mysterious9%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 234 frames from Stelio Savante's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.