LEADERSHIP

Armand Assante has distinguished himself as one of the most elusive and yet prolific Actors of his generation. Internationally he is sought in the Film sector as much as he has been the guest of leading industrialists and leaders around the world. Currently, his leading participation in the Film “The Wanderers, Quest of the Demon Hunter”, Comedy Director Dragos Buliga’s first film has received “Best Dramatic Feature” at The Philip K. Dick Film Festival in New York. It has earned him Best Actor as well as Best Film at the Unreal Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, and opening the Garden State Film Festival in March of 2018, he has been awarded Most Valuable Player and the film, Best Feature Film in the Horror Genre. In 2015 Armand received The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Garden State Film Festival at Atlantic City and followed it by joining Producer Jules Nasso and TaeKwonDo Legend Master Kim in an homage to Asian action cinema in the film “Darc’. He now joins a documentary in Europe helmed by Jakov Sedlar on global affairs both as himself and in a dramatic turn as “Machiavelli.” When not working, Armand Assante is a landmine removal activist. He is an active member of Landmine Survivors Network, which is a data-based communications group that specializes in the immediate rehabilitation and medical assistance for landmine victims globally. LSN is based in Washington, D.C. and was founded by landmine survivors Jerry White and Ken Rutherford. On his second trip to Croatia after before and post 9/11 Assante contributed personally and raised financing for Doking Engineering, a firm specializing in the removal and detonation of landmines. He has actually been on landmine sites in Croatia with Slavko Majetic, the head of Doking Engineering, twice in 2000 and 2001. His contribution created international assistance that addressed the landmine sweep in Croatia dramatically. His website includes information on how contributions can be made to these two outstanding organizations. During the production of ‘Blind Dragon’, a documentary he has written and directed on the global landmine crisis, Armand in the winter of 2003 in Africa, was forced to stop filming, before entering Angola, the budget threatened by embezzlement in that country. His Daughter Anya 35 is Director of Marketing for ‘Theory” in Manhattan having previously worked for Louis Vuitton, Christies, and David Yurman. Alesandra 30, an Actress, Producer, Singer, and Composer attended Hunter College in Manhattan. They reside there and on their farm in the Hudson Valley. Armand’s outdoor passion has seen him raise Horses, champion bloodline German Shepherds, Bulls, and Trees.