CinemaStone was set up in 1998 in Milan,Italy to program cinemas with films in Original language. It's founder, Jordan Stone has a particular background in cinema.
HE WATCHES MOVIES ALL THE TIME…
Jordan Stone has always loved the cinema. He spent his childhood watching movies on 8mm,16mm,35mm and then on video. There was no television at home. Films were shown on 16mm almost every night at home. Very early on he learned how to operate the family’s 8mm projector when he was 6 years old and watched Buster Keaton’s “The General” until he knew every frame, in addition to other Keaton films and Douglas Fairbanks’ “The Mark of Zorro” as well as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Fatty Arbuckle. Jordan has worked in the film business since he was 12. He worked at the Edinburgh Film Festival, attended the Havana Film Festival then started work in Production as a Second Assistant Director and has been a First Assistant Director for more than 20 years working on feature films, commercials and music videos. Before moving to Milan, Jordan was based in Los Angeles for 8 years working on films with Francis Ford Coppola, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Michele Pfeiffer and Tony Scott to name a few. Jordan was born in New York and moved to London when he was six years old. At school he studied Film, drama and photography. His parents, Barbara and David Stone established the prestigious London art house cinema chain, The Gate Cinemas and Cinegate Distribution where they premiered films by Fassbinder, Rosi, Bertolucci, Wenders, Oshima, Szabo, Mizoguchi, Scorsese and Woody Allen, among other great filmmakers. Previously they had produced independent American feature films and documentaries. Jordan also started producing along the way and has worked with Spike Lee, Mike Figgis and Willem Dafoe on various projects. In 1998, Jordan started programming the Cinema Mexico and Cinema Centrale in Milan, Italy with films in original language. He invited directors and actors to the openings to great success. In 2007, Jordan started writing “film pieces” for Conde Nast’s Vogue Italia and Casa Vogue. In 2009, Jordan produced the Italian portion of "Somewhere" directed by Sofia Coppola. In 2010, Jordan wrote, produced and directed "Irwin & Fran" starring Prof. Irwin Corey.
Italy is still the only country in Europe not to open films in O.L.