David Di Sabatino

David Di Sabatino (born 1966) is a Canadian author and documentary filmmaker who has produced and directed Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher, which chronicled the story of Lonnie Frisbee in 2005, and Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman, which depicted Christian musician Larry Norman, in 2009.
Background and Education
Di Sabatino was born in Canada in 1966, and raised in North York in the Italian Pentecostal Church of Canada (IPCC) (now the Canadian Assemblies of God), which is part of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America.
Di Sabatino attended the , and attended graduate school at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
Career
Di Sabatino wrote the "Gadfly" column for the website canadianchristianity.com, and was later an editor of Worship Leader Magazine.
In 2009 Di Sabatino released a controversial documentary, Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman, about Christian musician Larry Norman. Norman, and his ex-wife, refused to cooperate in the making of the film. A cease and desist notice initiated by Norman's family temporarily prevented the public display of Fallen Angel, and prompted Di Sabatino to file his own lawsuit against Norman's Solid Rock on 20 March 2009. On 6 July 2009 the case was settled out of court, thus allowing the film to be shown.
Works
* The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies 49. Westport, CT: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing, 1999. ISBN 978-0313302688 2nd ed. Jester Media, 2003. ISBN- 978-0979074011
Articles
* "The Delicate Art of Songwriting: An Interview with Bob Bennett". Worship Leader (July/August 2001):34-36.
* "History of the Jesus Movement", (November 1997).
* "Is there One Particular Style of Worship that God Desires?: The Elasticity of Transcendence".
* "Jesus People are Gone but Their Legacy Lives On - Part II". The Endeavour (May/June 1995):3.
* "Jesus People Caught Many By Surprise - Part I." The Endeavour (April 1995):3-4.
* "Jesus People: The '60s Intriguing Offspring". Christian Week (14 February 1995):10.
* "Lonnie Frisbee: A Modern Day Samson". In Bill Jackson, The Quest for the Radical Middle: A History of the Vineyard, 377-391. Vineyard International Publishing, 1999.
* "Putting the Fun Back into Fundamentalism". shipoffools.com. (1999).
* "Why I Would Follow Bono Into Hell...and why evangelicals should listen to him and join U2's worldwide evangelistic outreach". PRISM magazine (14 September 2002).
Filmography
* Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher (2005)
* Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman (2009)

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