New York City native Raúl daSilva recalls his boyhood in the lower East Side of Manhattan and its surrounding neighborhoods as fascinating. He was educated at Adelphi University and later attended Hofstra University's PhD program in clinical psychology but changed his mind and through some networking from his acting curriculum taken in ...
Working on fiction writing in New Haven, Connecticut. [January 2008]
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In his career, Raul daSilva wrote, produced and/or directed literally hundreds of short films too numerous to list. These include TV commercials, training and educational films, public relations and many other forms of communications films. Many of these competed in International film festivals and received top prizes, including his Coleridge film with Sir Michael Redgrave which received six prizes, five of which were first place in category. Of his seven books, six which are on film, The World of Animation received three national book festival prizes and was on the Walt Disney recommended book list for many years.
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Brother of Animator-designer, Ray daSilva. Not related to Howard daSilva whose real name was Howard Silverblatt.