He recently graduated from the prestigious directing program at the American Film Institute, where his thesis film Frontman (16) won the Student Emmys for Best Drama and Best Director and has played in over fifty film festivals worldwide including the Academy-qualifying AFI Fest and Camerimage, won twenty awards including the Dolby + Vizio Cinematography Vision Award. Most recently, Gentile wrote, directed, and produced a proof of concept short for his first feature, American Murderer (17).