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he started making movies at Rockland Community College
Ferrara was already making films as a teenager before college. Credible biographies say he and Nicholas St. John began shooting Super 8 films in high school, and Ferrara himself said they started making films at 16.
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This claim places the start of Ferrara's filmmaking at Rockland Community College, but multiple credible sources place it earlier.
- In a 2015 Guardian interview, Ferrara said of collaborator Nicholas St. John: "We started making films when we were 16" — i.e., during their teen years, before college.
- An official Cannes biography says that in high school Ferrara met Nicholas St. John and "As boys they started shooting in Super 8". The same bio then separately says Ferrara later attended Rockland Community College and Purchase College.
So Rockland Community College may be part of his education, but it was not where he first started making movies.
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- Abel Ferrara: 'Pasolini's death is not some kind of fictional event' | The Guardian
He talks fondly of Nicholas St John... He and St John began making films together as teenagers. "We started making films when we were 16..."
- A FILM BY Abel Ferrara | Festival de Cannes press material
Abel Ferrara was born in 1951 in the Italian neighbourhood of the Bronx. In high school he met Nicholas St. John... As boys they started shooting in Super 8...
Ferrara was formerly domestic partners with the actress Cristina Chiriac
Recent reliable profiles describe Cristina Chiriac as Ferrara's current partner or wife, not a former partner. Sources from 2020 and 2024 say they were still together and living with their daughter in Rome.
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This relationship status appears to be outdated or incorrect.
Recent reliable coverage does not describe Chiriac as a former partner. Instead:
- A 2024 Guardian profile says Ferrara "lives with the actor Cristina Chiriac and their eight-year-old daughter" in Rome.
- A 2020 New Yorker review of Tommaso describes Chiriac as Ferrara's real-life wife and Anna as their child.
That directly conflicts with describing Chiriac as merely a former domestic partner with whom he only "remains on friendly terms."
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- ‘I’m not a saint’: Abel Ferrara on his wild career, rehab and nightclubbing with Donald Trump | The Guardian
Now 72, he has been sober for 11 years, roughly half the time he has been in Rome, where he lives with the actor Cristina Chiriac and their eight-year-old daughter.
- Tommaso | The New Yorker
Tommaso lives tensely with his wife, Nikki (Cristina Chiriac, Ferrara’s real-life wife), and their young daughter, Deedee (Anna Ferrara, Chiriac and Ferrara’s child).