Career Before Filmmaking
After graduating from Harvard in 1973, Stillman began working as a journalist in New York City.
He was introduced to some film producers from Madrid and persuaded them that he could sell their films to Spanish-language television in the U.S. He worked for the next few years in Barcelona and Madrid as a sales agent for directors Fernando Trueba and Fernando Colomo, and sometimes acted in their films, usually playing comic Americans, such as his role in Trueba's Sal Gorda.
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