Emmanuel Martin Di feliciantonio (Vaintino) is a Paris born New Yorker. In 1990, he enrolled at Paris 8 university, then featuring the most renowned MFA immersive film program. He studied under the tutelage of prestigious luminaries from the french new wave, and Cahiers du cinema legends; master craftsman Jean-Henri Roger (1949-2012)(wikipedia in English) personally recognized early signs of Emmanuel's creativity and mentored him into producing, writing and directing his first short film in march of 1991, titled "Urban poetry", a social satire about art. Bitten by the bug, he kept on writing and directing his own screenplays and plays, studied acting, in a director's capacity, at the popular studio Andreas Voutsinas (Wikipedia in English). Eventually, he expanded to the music business, that led him to manage "Dis Bonjour a La Dame" a local acid jazz band. Emmanuel was able to get the band to open for Jamiroquai at the Bataclan, and Maceo Parker, at the Olympia, respectively in June and July of 1993, securing in the process a record deal with East/West/Warner. Then, Emmanuel joined forces Action Gitanes (Wikipedia in English), the most revered independent Theatrical distribution of Indies and Hollywood classics in Paris. On his first trip to New York, in September 1995, Emmanuel engineered the purchase of the theatrical and video rights for distribution in France of "The Addiction" by legendary King of New York's director, Abel Ferrara. That adventure spare headed a definite move to Brooklyn, New York, that year.
Emmanuel has been living in the Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy area since then. As it was at the time, a lot of creative people were dwelling in the area, mostly known for the neighborhood where Notorious BIG sprang from. Emmanuel, was, himself, raised in the housing system in Paris by Irene, his mum, an home maker/piano teacher from Italian descent and by his dad Paulino (1941-1996), a Spanish born factory worker. Indeed, he was used to that kind of eclectic urban environment that Brooklyn had to offer and felt right at home. He set up a music studio and developed different local talents in a Spartan like one bedroom apartment on Dean street. He got all the inspiration he needed to eventually start writing and document his path through visual expression, documentation, and narratives. A trilogy was born on the page, "The Curator", an art heist caper, "Swans in the Dark", a neo noir international gangster film, and "Lionel Fantom in room ninety-nine", a psychological drama about a D.J. Socially, Emmanuel also nurtured special relationships with New York artists, culminating in the presentation of his visual installation "Solo High part 1 and 2" about abstract painter Tom Ryan, at downtown members only clubs, Norwood and the Soho House. Earlier, Emmanuel had experienced special exposure when he screened another one of his documentaries in February 2003, titled "A summer in The life of Ernest Rosenberg", a Soho street artist, at legendary and now defunct Amy Sacco's Lot 61.

Consequently, Emmanuel Martin Di Feliciantonio (Vaintino), wrote more screenplays, plays, series pilot, and directed features, videos and developed his own personal aesthetic revolving around installations, events, and curated screenings as well as art projects. Lately, in the spring of 2016, he co-created the Bed Stuy theater group with a local actor, Kevin Leonard, and directed August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" in the August in August summer series in Fulton Park and James Baldwin's "Blues for mister Charlie", at the black caucus in Albany, in February 2017, both events were historical premiere, co sponsored by the counsel for the arts in Brooklyn. Vaintino, also completed a feature film titled "An Afternoon in Monte Carlo" (Amazon prime-UK) and a feature documentary titled "Shadows in the Box" for his own production company www.thegroupnyc.com

This year, Emmanuel martin Di feliciantonio, has received many international awards and selections at different film festivals for five of his projects, including his screenplay "Rockaway Blues" (pitch competition winner at the Austin revolution film festival) "Swans in The dark" (semi-finalist at the Hip-Hop film festival at the Black national theater in Harlem), Shadows in the Box, a feature documentary (Official selections at the Moonwhite film festival in Mumbai and at the Dark room film festival in London). Emmanuel, also secured a digital distribution deal for his feature film "An afternoon in Monte Carlo" (Winner at Berlin Film Flash Film Festival, official selections at Roma Prisma independent awards, MOPIFF (Lagos, Nigeria), CKF international film festival (Swindon, England), and semi-finalist at Cine Fest, Los Angeles). Lastly, his play "Chimera" has been selected in the prestigious New York summer theater festival, at the Hudson Guild Theater in Chelsea, and will be performed in August of 2019.