Directors: today's Italian directors
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Alice Rohrwacher was born on 29 December 1981 in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for Happy as Lazzaro (2018), La Chimera (2023) and The Wonders (2014).- Writer
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Michelangelo Frammartino was born in 1968 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for The Hole (2021), Il dono (2003) and Le Quattro Volte (2010).- Director
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Claudio Giovannesi was born on 20 March 1978 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Fiore (2016), Alì Blue Eyes (2012) and Piranhas (2019).- Writer
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Damiano D'Innocenzo was born on 14 July 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Bad Tales (2020), Boys Cry (2018) and America Latina (2021).- Writer
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Fabio D'Innocenzo was born on 14 July 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Bad Tales (2020), Boys Cry (2018) and America Latina (2021).- Director
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Francesco Munzi was born in 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Black Souls (2014), Saimir (2004) and The Rest of the Night (2008).- Writer
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Although born in Rome in 1965, Emanuele Crialese has Sicilian roots, to which he pays tribute in film after film. In 1991 he leaves for the USA where he studies film direction at New York University. After making several shorts, he directs his first feature-length movie Once We Were Strangers (1997), in New York. The year was 1997, the film was in English and was awarded several prizes, among which the Valenciennes International Film Festival Award. He then decided to return to his homeland and met international success (both in festivals and art houses) with his first Italian work Respiro (2002), shot on Lampedusa Island in Sicily in 2002, with Vincenzo Amato and Valeria Golino in her most ambitious part to-date. In 2006, his next film Golden Door (2006), once again with Vincenzo Amato but without Valeria Golino (Charlotte Gainsbourg was better suited to play an English-speaking emigrant), examined the question of emigration to the States at the beginning of the 20th century, more particularly from the perspective of poor Sicilian peasants.- Writer
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Jonas Carpignano was born in 1984 and grew up between New York City and Rome. His first feature film Mediterranea debuted at the Cannes Film Festival -Semaine de la Critique in 2015 before receiving the award for the best directorial debut of 2015 by the National Board of Review and Gotham Independent Film Award for breakthrough. His second feature film A Ciambra had its world premier at the 2017 Cannes film festival -Director's Fortnight where it won the Europa Cinema Label prize for best European film. The film won numerous awards and prizes in addition to earning Carpignano a nomination for best director at the Independent Spirit Awards. A Ciambra was chosen to represent Italy for best foreign film at the 2018 Academy Awards and won two David Di Donatello awards including best director. His third film A Chiara had its world premiere in the Director's Fortnight at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and won the Europa Labels prize for Best European film marking the second time that the director earned this prize at Cannes.- Director
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Mirko Locatelli was born in 1974 in Milan. He studied cinema at "University of Studies" in Milan and dropped out in 2000 to dedicate himself to journalism. He collaborated with a large variety of newspapers included "Il Corriere Della Sera", at the same time carried on his main interest: cinema. In the same year he opened the site "www.cinemaindipendente.it" with the aim of letting young filmmakers meet there, discussing independent movies. The website also propagates cinema culture, organizes screenings, cinema courses and production projects. Gathering people he met during his studies, in 2001, opened "Officina Film", a production company which deals with communications. With Officina films he directed his first advertisement and in 2003 directed a documentary on the set Fame chimica (2003) by Antonio Bocola e Paolo Vari, and a short film "Il Confine". In 2004 he directed Come prima (2004) an independent film. In 2005 he directed Crisalidi (2005), a documentary which was critically acclaimed.- Director
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Giorgio Diritti was born on 21 December 1959 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Wind Blows Round (2005), The Man Who Will Come (2009) and Hidden Away (2020).- Director
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Andrea Pallaoro was born on 6 February 1982 in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Monica (2022), Medeas (2013) and Hannah (2017).- Director
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Matteo Garrone was born in Rome in 1968. He is the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone, and a photographer. In 1996 he won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette (1996), that became one of the three episodes of his first feature film Land in Between (1996). He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah (2008). His film Reality (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His latest film Tale of Tales (2015) was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.- Writer
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Marco Bellocchio is one of the most consistent and most adventurous of today's Italian directors-an achievement all the more remarkable given that he made his feature debut almost fifty years ago. Over those years, he has amassed a body of films that encompasses a large number of original screenplays, adaptations of the likes of Pirandello and Kleist and personal, quasi-autobiographical work. What unifies these films is the beauty and originality of Bellocchio's images and his unceasing quest to understand the place of the individual in contemporary Italy and contemporary cinema. After making a few shorts, Bellocchio announced himself with his ferocious first feature, the acclaimed Fists in the Pocket (1965). This caustic and anarchic look at an extremely troubled family launched him instantly to the first ranks of the Italian film scene, alongside Antonioni, Pasolini and Bertolucci. For the next several years, films such as China Is Near (1967) and In the Name of the Father (1971) found Bellocchio examining the turbulent world of leftist politics and revolutionary dreams with an eye both sympathetic and jaundiced. During the 1980s and 1990s, under the spell of unorthodox-and, to some, controversial-psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli, Bellocchio's emphasis turned to examining the interweaving of family dynamics and sexual desire as they produce and undermine personal identities. Films such as A Leap in the Dark (1980) and Devil in the Flesh (1986) create complex allegories of an audacious originality. More recently, Bellocchio has turned to more straightforward narratives in a number of films that examine Italy's recent past and its present, from The Nanny (1999) to one of his most recent works, Dormant Beauty (2012). Shifting brilliantly from realist fiction to archival footage to the imagery of dream or fantasy, all within a single film, this recent period has returned Bellocchio to the forefront of contemporary cinema, while combining the lessons learned from both the previous political and allegorical work. What has remained constant is Bellocchio's searching critique of the institutions that control individuals and organize the flow of power: the army, political parties, schools, the state and its laws, the Church, and the family.- Director
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Paolo Taviani studied liberal arts at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Vittorio, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work together ever since, with each directing alternate scenes with the other watching but never interfering.- Director
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After school, Amelio studied philosophy. He graduated with a doctorate. Amelio developed a keen interest in film at a young age. In 1970 he began working as a cameraman for the Italian state television RAI. A little later, Amelio worked as an assistant director for RAI. In 1970 he directed his first television film: "La fine del gioco". He then also took part in the production of several TV commercials, for example for the state-owned airline Alitalia. In the 1970s, Amelio first attracted attention in international cinema with films such as "La città del sole" (1973), "La morte al lavoro" (1978) and "Il piccolo Archimede" (1979).
Amelio celebrated his breakthrough as an internationally recognized film director in 1990 with "Porte aperte". With "Il ladro di bambini" in 1992, Gianni Amelio impressively staged the conflicts of conscience of a carabinieri officer in today's Italian society. In 1994 he came to the public with the film "Lamerica", which dealt with the current refugee problem between Albania and Italy and exposed the unscrupulous dealings with the plight of refugees by the smuggling organizations. The director has been honored with several international awards for his film work.
He received an Oscar nomination in 1991 for "Porte aperte". In 1992, Amelio was awarded the Nastro d'Argento, the Felix Award and the Cannes Grand Prix for "Il ladro di bambini". Another silver ribbon (Nastro d'Argento) at the Venice Film Festival followed in 1994 for "Lamerica". In the same year he received the Grolla d'Oro for his life's work. In 1996 the Spanish Goya Film Prize also followed for "Lamerica". The director also published a book under the same title in 1994 about the film "Lamerica". At the same time, Amelio also worked as a theater director: in 1995 he staged the play "I pagliacci" in Genoa's Carlo Felice Theater. The director's other successful films were "Così ridevano" in 1998 and "Le chiavi di casa" in 2004.
In 2008 he took over the management of the Torino Film Festival from Nanni Moretti.- Writer
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Valerio Mieli was born on 27 January 1978 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Valerio is a writer and director, known for Ricordi? (2018), Ten Winters (2009) and Les filles du temps.- Director
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Luca Guadagnino was born on 10 August 1971 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and producer, known for Call Me by Your Name (2017), Suspiria (2018) and Bones and All (2022).- Director
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Piero Messina was born on 30 April 1981 in Caltagirone, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for L'attesa (2015), Another End (2024) and This Must Be the Place (2011).- Writer
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Edoardo De Angelis was born on 31 August 1978 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Indivisible (2016), The Vice of Hope (2018) and Perez. (2014). He is married to Pina Turco. They have one child.- Director
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Leonardo Di Costanzo was born in 1958 in Ischia, Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Interval (2012), The Inner Cage (2021) and L'intrusa (2017).- Editor
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Silvano Agosti was born on 23 March 1938 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. He is an editor and director, known for Uova di garofano (1991), Quartiere (1987) and Fit to Be Untied (1975).- Director
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Roberto Minervini was born in 1970 in Fermo, Marche, Italy. Roberto is a director and producer, known for Stop The Pounding Heart (2013), The Other Side (2015) and What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018).- Writer
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Paolo Franchi was born in Bergamo. After completing an honors degree in Literature and Philosophy, specializing in psychoanalytic art criticism, he graduated as a film director from the renowned Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy's national school of cinema. His graduation thesis is the only one to have been selected at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. He worked as an assistant to Nanni Loy, Francesco Maselli and Peter Del Monte, and attended select workshops by Mauro Bolognini, Giorgio Arlorio and Ermanno Olmi.
He made several short films including the docufiction "Frammenti di Sapienza" about the Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza, who featured as herself. The documentary competed at the 1995 Venice Film Festival and other major international cinema events, winning several awards.
In 2004, Franchi signed his feature-length debut film "La Spettatrice", the only Italian film to compete at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, founded by Peter Scarlet and Robert De Niro. The film earned global critical acclaim, and participated in numerous festivals (from Montreal to the Edinburgh Film Festival, from the Chicago International Film Festival to the Tokyo Film Festival, from Paris Cinema to New York's Syracuse International Film Festival).
Overall, the film garnered 21 awards worldwide including:- Italian Golden Globe for best first feature
- Grolla d'Oro St. Vincent for artistic innovation
- Cicae Best Film Award at the Annecy Festival
- First prize from the jury at the Villerupt Festival
- Rosa Camuna best film award at the Bergamo Film Meeting 2004
- Fac 2004 Award for best European debut (Italian critics' union)
- Best Film Award and Best Screenplay at the Syracuse International Film Festival, New York
In 2007, Franchi signed his second feature film "Nessuna qualità agli eroi". The film was nominated best film of the year at the 64th Venice Film Festival, arousing controversial critical reaction coupled with great admiration from the international press (Variety, Screen International, and Positif to name a few). The film participated in numerous international festivals (from Villerupt to the Busan International Film Festival, from Annecy to Mons) and earned no less than four Italian Golden Globe nominations in 2008: best film, best actor (Elio Germano), best film script - and best director of the year to Paolo Franchi.
In 2012, he signed his third feature film "E la chiamano estate", causing a stir in the media. Amid dissension and applause, the film won two prizes at the Rome International Film Festival: the award for best actress to Isabella Ferrari and the Marc Aurelio Award for best direction to Paolo Franchi.
In 2017, Franchi made the film "Dove non ho mai abitato". The film was enthusiastically received by Italian and foreign critics and earned numerous awards including the Mario Gallo award, the Capri Hollywood award, the Ciak d'Oro best film award, the Italian Golden Globe for best soundtrack - and nomination for best film of the year. The film also received three Nastro d'Argento nominations, including best director of 2018. The film was the only Italian representative at the official Golden Goblet Awards of the Shanghai International Festival 2018 where it competed for best film.- Director
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Salvatore Mereu was born in 1965 in Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Pretty Butterflies (2012), Ballo a tre passi (2003) and Assandira (2020).- Director
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Stefano Mordini was born on 10 August 1968 in Marradi, Tuscany, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Invisible Witness (2018), Pericle (2016) and Smalltown, Italy (2005). He is married to Valentina Cervi. They have two children.- Lucio Pellegrini was born on 20 October 1965 in Asti, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima (2004), Ora o mai più (2003) and Let's Mambo! (1999). He has been married to Camilla Filippi since 2001. They have two children.
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Marco Danieli is known for Worldly Girl (2016), Un'avventura (2019) and I capelli della sposa (2006).- Director
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Gianfranco Rosi was born on 30 November 1963 in Asmara, Eritrea. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Fire at Sea (2016), Notturno (2020) and Sacro GRA (2013).- Director
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Gianluca De Serio is known for Seven Acts of Mercy (2011), Zakaria (2005) and The Stonebreaker (2020).- Director
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Massimiliano De Serio is known for Seven Acts of Mercy (2011), Zakaria (2005) and The Stonebreaker (2020).- Director
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Franco Piavoli was born on 21 June 1933 in Pozzolengo, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Al primo soffio di vento (2002), The Blue Planet (1982) and Voices Through Time (1996). He is married to Neria Poli. They have one child.- Director
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Pietro Marcello was born on 2 July 1976 in Caserta, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Lost and Beautiful (2015), Martin Eden (2019) and Scarlet (2022).- Director
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Vincenzo Marra was born on 18 September 1972 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Tornando a casa (2001), Vento di terra (2004) and La prima luce (2015).- Director
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Susanna Nicchiarelli was born on 6 May 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for Cosmonauta (2009), Nico, 1988 (2017) and Miss Marx (2020).- Writer
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Laura Bispuri is a director and writer, known for _Sworn Virgin (2015)_ and _Daughter of Mine (2018)_ both presented in Competition at the Berlinale, in 2015 and 2018. She was awarded with the David di Donatello in 2010 for Best Short Film for _Passing Time (2010)_ and with Nastro d'Argento in 2011 for Most Promising director for her short _Biondina (2011)_.- Director
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Daniele Gaglianone was born in 1966 in Ancona, Marche, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for My Class (2013), Nemmeno il destino (2004) and I nostri anni (2000).- Writer
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Alex Infascelli was born in Rome in 1967. At the age of 21 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his musical career. After playing in several local bands he found a job as production assistant for Propaganda Films, working his way up to 2nd A.D. and collaborating with several directors including Dominic Sena, Rebecca Blake, Mark Romanek and Mark Pellington. He then returned home to start his directing career. In two years he became one of Italy's most sought after music video director. He collaborated with Bernardo Bertolucci, directing a video for "Lucy" by The Cocteau Twins for the "Stealing Beauty" soundtrack. In 1995 he directed a short film, part of the feature film "De Gegerazione" directed by several other debuting directors, including Asia Argento. In 1996 he took part in another episodic feature film called "Esercizi Di Stile" also directed by household names such as Dino Risi, Mario Monnicelli and Sergio Citti.
The year 2000 marked his debut in feature films with "Almost Blue". "Almost Blue" won the "David di Donatello", "Nastro D'Argento" and "Ciak d'Oro" and was selected for the "Semaine de la Critique" and the "Camera d'Or" at the 54th Cannes Film Festival. The film was also a finalist at the Hollywood Film Festival and selected for the competition at Montreal. His second feature "The Vanity Serum" was released in 2004 and selected for the Sao Paulo International Film Festival, the Brussels Fantasy Film Festival and Pifan in Puchon, Korea.- Writer
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Bonifacio Angius debut in 2014 at 67th Locarno Film Festival- International Competition with Perfidia and won Junior Jury Award. Perfidia had long festival life: Montreal Festival of World Film, Hamburg Film Festival, Annecy Italian Cinema (Jury Special Mention), European Film Festival of Lecce (Mario Verdone Award Finalist), Gallio Film Festival (Best Film), Salento Finibus Terrae (Safiter Prize- Best Director), Istanbul Film Festival, London Italian Cinema and many others.- Director
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Marina Spada is known for Come l'ombra (2006), My Tomorrow (2011) and Arnaldo Pomodoro, racconto dell'artista (1997).- Director
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Antonietta De Lillo was born on 6 March 1960 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for Una casa in bilico (1987), Il resto di niente (2004) and Non è giusto (2001).- Director
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Claudio Cupellini was born on 18 February 1973 in Camposampiero, Veneto, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for A Quiet Life (2010), Alaska (2015) and Gomorrah (2014).- Actress
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Barbara Cupisti began her career as leading actress in Italian and French films and television serials. For twenty years, she worked with prominent directors, including Tinto Brass, Dario Argento, Norman Jewison, Paul Planchon, Antonio Pedro Vasconcelos, Jhon Lofve, Gabriele Salvatores, and Carlo Verdone. In 2002, she appeared in her final film, the French production Total Kheops with Marie Trintignant and Richard Boheringer.
In 1998, Barbara made her debut as host on Italian state television (RAI) with a live-broadcast program featuring correspondents and guests around the world. Since then, she has continued to develop, produce, and host television programs for RAI as well as private broadcast networks, including launching a new music channel in Italy (Music Box) and serving on a commission for creative development within RAI 1.
In addition to her work in television, Barbara has emerged as one of the most gifted documentary film directors of her generation with her breakthrough film, Madri, (2007), which explored the reality of life in the Occupied Territories through a series of conversations with both Israeli and Palestinian mothers who have lost their children to conflict. Madri was in competition at the "Orizzonti" section of the Venice Film Festival in 2007 and was awarded the "David Donatello Prize" as the Best Italian Documentary Feature of 2008.
Since 2008, she has completed nine documentaries focused on human rights issues, many earning patronage from UNICEF, UNHCR, and Amnesty International and awards at international film festivals. Most notably, her film Fratelli Sorelle, filmed inside Italian prisons, won the Ilaria Alpi Prize in 2012, the nation's most prestigious award for journalism. In 2008, Barbara served on the international jury at the Venice Film Festival. In 2013 and 2014, she was a member of the Ilaria Alpi Prize jury.- Director
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Anna Negri is known for Good Morning Heartache (2008), C'era una volta a Essaouira (2007) and In the Beginning There Was Underwear (1999).- Director
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Andrea Molaioli was born in 1967 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and assistant director, known for The Girl by the Lake (2007), The Jewel (2011) and Slam (2016).- Writer
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Carmine Amoroso was born in 1963 in Lanciano, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Cover Boy... Last Revolution (2006), Porn to Be Free (2016) and Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations (1992).- Director
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Pappi Corsicato was born on 12 June 1960 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Libera (1993), Black Holes (1995) and Il seme della discordia (2008).- Writer
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Emma Dante was born on 6 April 1967 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. She is a writer and director, known for A Street in Palermo (2013), The Macaluso Sisters (2020) and Misericordia (2023).- Director
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After studying philosophy at the University of Milan, he specialized in the Paolo Grassi School of dramatic art in dramaturgy and film direction at the Civic School of Cinema Luchino Visconti. At the same time he participated in the collective workshop Ipotesi Cinema, founded by Ermanno Olmi . Hers films: Tano da Morire 1997, Sud Side Stori, 2000, Angela 2002, Mare Nero 2006,Lost Kisses 2012, Riccardo goes to Hell 2017- Director
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Antonio Capuano was born on 9 April 1940 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Sacred Silence (1996), Mario's War (2005) and Dark Love (2010).- Actor
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Vincenzo Pirrotta, is a theater director and a theater and cinema actor. He graduated from I.N.D.A. (Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico). He worked with some of the most important Italian theater directors and actors and his plays have been performed on the greatest European and World stages and festivals. He has been among the protagonists of the film "Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy" by John Turturro and Roman Paska. He played in the films: "We believed" by Mario Martone, "The first king" by Matteo Rovere, "The Traitor" by Marco Bellocchio and he interpreted Benito Mussolini in "The Bad Poet" by Gianluca Iodice. He also played in "Koza Nostra" by Giovanni Dota. He worked in tv series like "Io non mi arrendo", "Il Cacciatore" and "Adesso tocca a me".- Art Department
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Alessandro Capitani was born in Orbetello (Gr) in 1980. In 2004 he graduated at the Faculty of Arts in Bologna. In 2006 he was admitted at the Centro Sperimentale of Cinematografia as a pupil of being directed where he graduated in 2009 with the shorts films "The Chance" and "Dream Man".- Director
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Antonio was born in Sydney, Australia but spent most of his formative years in Europe. He has worked as writer/director in the film industries of Europe, Australia and North America since 1992, when he co-wrote (with Gill Dennis) and directed "On My Own" which screened at Sundance 1993 and was nominated for 6 AFI awards (Australian Oscar Equivalent) and 1 Genie award (Canada's Oscar equivalent). His films have been presented at festivals such as Berlin, Sundance, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, IDFA; and released by companies such as Miramax, Warner Bros., and Lion's Gate. Right after 9-11 Antonio shot a series of documentaries for RAI (Italian TV). That experience led to an on-going collaboration with UNTV (United Nations TV) making documentaries to shed light on under-reported realities in South and Central America, Africa, and Asia. His projects have received the support of IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project), TFI (Tribeca Film Institute),FIND (Film Independent), WEMW (When East Meets West). Antonio is a current member of WGA, East. He is based in NYC.- Director
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Guido Lombardi was born on 31 May 1975 in Naples, Campania, Italy. Guido is a director and writer, known for Là-bas: A Criminal Education (2011), Take Five (2013) and Rose Stone Star (2020).- Producer
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Antonello Faretta is known for Montedoro (2015), Il giardino della speranza (2010) and Just Say No to Family Values (2006).- Director
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His latest film "Lucania, Land Blood and Magic" produced in collaboration with Rai Cinema and the Italian Ministry of Culture won numerous awards since its premiere in Los Angeles, including three Gran Jury Remi Awards as Best Foreign Film, Best Actress, Best Editing at 52° Houston International Film Festival and Best Actor, Best Editing and Best Film at Social World Film Festival, also the Hero and Time Award in Russia. Nominated among the 10 Best Italian Films of 2019 by Coming Soon Television "absolutely recommended" by My Movies & Ciak Magazine with extraordinary press and critics, released in theaters, home video, and by Sky, RAI, Amazon Prime.
His feature debut "Babylon Sisters" a co-production between Italy and Croatia supported by both Ministries of Culture, screened in over thirty International Festivals including Rome, Paris Mumbai, Pune, Pula, Milan, Cine Sans Frontiers and Cairo, becoming the image poster of the BFI London Film Festival, at the British Film Institute, distributed in the UK by Picture House. Winning two Audience Awards and twice Best First Film.
A graduate of the London Film School with a Masters Degree from London Metropolitan University he studied with Mike Leigh and Micheal Mann. With his super-16mm graduation short film "Chloe Travels Time" Roccati won the "Universal Studios Master Award": internship at Universal Studios and Focus Feature L.A. Selected by the American Cinematheque and Cinecittà Holding. For Universal directed four "Pluriel Shorts" produced by Citroen & Filmmaster presented at Venice Film Festival. A Berlinale Talents Campus Alumni, working with Vivo Film his screenplay "Beirut, I Love You", adaptation of Zena El Khalil's memoir, won both Torino Film Lab Jury & Audience Awards.
Director of documentaries in China, Mongolia, Russia, Afghanistan, United States, South America, Nigeria and Lebanon, including "Three Masters of Photography", "Living Utopia" with Judith Malina and The Living Theatre, "The Working Class Goes to Hell" produced by Greed and RAI television. His feature doc "The Road to Kabul" was awarded by RAI TV and the Italian Ministry of Defence as Best War Doc of Italian Television 2013, which led him to have his first photography book published by Magnum Contrasto Ed.
A firm believer that collective history is a lens to navigate the future and that resilient beauty can be found in war-torn countries his docs, films, music videos, produced around the world tackle social, political, gender issues through pop culture. To support new developments and innovative productions in 2018 he created Ardita Film. His films are on Sky, Rai, Amazon Prime.- Director
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Francesco Patierno was born in 1964 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Pater familias (2003), Naples '44 (2016) and The Early Bird Catches the Worm (2008).- Writer
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Sydney Sibilia was born on 19 November 1981 in Salerno, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014), Rose Island (2020) and Mixed by Erry (2023).- Producer
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Matteo Rovere was born on 22 January 1982 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a producer and writer, known for The First King (2019), Italian Race (2016) and Romulus (2020).- Director
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Gabriele Mainetti (born November 7, 1976) is an Italian actor, director, composer and a film producer. He attended courses in directing, screenwriting and cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts NY and improved his acting skills under the guide of important masters as Beatrice Bracco, Francesca De Sapio, Nikolaj Karpov, Irina Promptova and Michael Margotta in Italy. He began his career at theatre in 1998. In that period, Gabriele played important roles in different movies and TV shows (few examples: Stiamo bene insieme, La omicidi, Briciole, Rapidamente, Il cielo in una stanza, Un altro anno e poi cresco, etc.). After this successful experience he focused on short films direction achieving important results: his last release, entitled Tiger Boy (2012), has won important prizes around the world as the Renault Award for Best International Short Film (Academy® Accredited) at the Flickerfest International Film Festival 2013 (in Australia), as well as the Grand Prix du Film Court de la Ville de Brest at the 27° Brest European Short Film Festival (in Bretagne, North of France). Tiger Boy has also competed with other short-films at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as the only European guest. Afterward, the movie received others important Italian awards: the Nastri d'argento 2013 as Best Short Film and receiving the Best Short Film nomination at the Globi D'oro 2012 and at the David di Donatello 2012. Tiger Boy reached the second position at the Giffoni Film Festival 2012. Gabriele Mainetti is also known for another short release entitled Basette (Sideburns, 2008), which has participated to more than 50 festivals like the Locarno Film Festival and again, the Nastri d'Argento 2008, where the short received the prize for the Best Actors (Daniele Liotti and Luisa Ranieri) and a Special mention for Best Screenplay (Nicola Guaglianone). Furthermore, Basette won as the Best Short Film at the Festival del Corto della 25 ora, in a popular Italian TV show. He is now preparing his first feature film.- Director
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Fabio was born in Reggio Calabria (Italy) in 1980. In 2002 graduated at the University of East London with a BA Honour Bachelor of Arts in Visual Theory, Film History. In 2007 he graduated at the Italian Film School "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in Rome. His work has been selected to different international festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale and Venice Film Festival. He was a selected participant of the Atelier de la Cinefondation du 64° Festival de Cannes, of the Berlinale Talent Project Market and of the Talent Lab of the Toronto International Film Festival. He also won the Universal Filmmaster Program in Los Angeles, the Young Italian Filmmaker Prize in New York, and the Torino Film Lab Production Award.- Director
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Born in Rome in 1975. Italian director and writer.
His work starts in the late 90's, when he begins filming his first short movies and documentaries and engages collaborations with various Italian artists and advertising companies.
Noce's breakthrough in the Italian cinematography arrives in 2005, when he wins the prestigious Italian award "David di Donatello" and the "Silver Ribbon" of the Italian National Syndacate of Film Journalists with his short film "Aria". Presented at the Venice Film Festival, "Aria" also wins the European Film Award. This successful debut is followed by the award winning short movie "Adil e Yussuf" (2007), selected at the Venice Film Festival and also nominated for the "David di Donatello". The documentary "Aman e gli altri" (2006), presented at the Torino Film Festival, reveals to be the first step toward the production of Claudio Noce's critically acclaimed first feature film, starring Valerio Mastrandrea, "Good Morning Aman" (2009), official selection at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival, where it was screened as a part of the Critics Week program. With "Good Morning Aman" Claudio Noce receives also nominations for the "David di Donatello", the "Silver Ribbon", and wins the FICE award (Italian Federation of Cinema d'Essai) for "Breakthrough Directing".
"The Ice Forest", starring Emir Kusturica, Ksenia Rappoport, Andriano Giannini and Domenico Diele, is Noce's second feature film.- Director
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Pietro Marcello was born on 2 July 1976 in Caserta, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Lost and Beautiful (2015), Martin Eden (2019) and Scarlet (2022).- Director
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Saverio Costanzo was born on 28 September 1975 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Hungry Hearts (2014), My Brilliant Friend (2018) and Private (2004).- Director
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Sergio Basso started as a theatre director, in Teatraz Drama Company, then he went on to the movie industry. He was Gianni Amelio's assistant director on his last production in China, "The missing star". He directed several documentaries as well as one feature film. His films got selected and won awarded in many major documentary-, animation- and short- international festivals (e.g. Locarno, Nyon, Annecy, Turin, Moscow). He graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Direction Department, Rome (2006); from Jurij Alschitz and GITIS (Moscow) Theatre School (2002). He lived in China for a while, pursuing his academic studies in Oriental Art; he graduated from Venice University, Oriental Languages Department (1999); from Milan University, in Classics (2011). He is a member of the European Documentary Network. He taught at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Palermo branch, art-history documentary and held several workshops in documentary filmmaking abroad, i.e. at University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is one of the winners of 2009 Solinas Prize- Documentary for the Large Screen and of the Movin'Up Scholarship for Young Italian Artists. He co-worked with RAI & RAICinema, Telecom Italy, Save the Children, "Il Corriere della Sera", IlSole24ore publishing house, Skira publishing house, the MAAXI Museum in Rome, the Istituto dei Beni Culturali in Emilia Romagna. More recently he devoted himself to developing cross-media platforms for the Italian newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera" and experimenting the contribution of animation in documentary film-making, winning Annecy International Film Festival. "Elementary love" is his first feature film, released in 2014 in Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Canada. It is a children's film. It got selected at Moscow Film Festival and Giffoni Film Festival. A novel with the same title has been published by Salani Publishing House. In 2014 he has directed a documentary in Beijing for CCTV, the Chinese national television channel, in Chinese, for Chinese audience, about the Han dynasty. He has directed several children's cartoons, too.- Director
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Passionate about cinema and literature. He graduated with Honors in 2007 with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Modern Literature. Then he graduated in Filmmaking at Rosebud International Film School in Rome in 2011 and in Screenwriting in New York Film Academy, in New York in 2014, thanks a schoolarship promoted by Italian Cultural Institute of New York won because of his First Feature Movie "The Way Back Home". In 2008 he started working frequently as assistant director on important Italian movies set. In 2010 he co-produced, directed and wrote his first feature movie "La strada verso casa" ("The way back home"). It was presented as International Premiere in International Festival of Rome and in San Paolo International Film Festival in the section "Young Discoveries". The movie was selected in beyond 40 International Festivals and it won 8 National Cinema Awards. In 2011 he founded a new Company Production, always called Echivisivi (www.echivisivi.it). In 2013 he produced and directed his first movie documentary, "La memoria degli ultimi" ("The Last Standing"), reaching a surprising criticism and audience success. The movie was sold in almost 20 countries in all world. In 2016 he produced and directed his second movie documentary "Indro. The man who wrote on the water", about the most important Italian journalist of 20th century, in co-production with Alkermes and in collaboration with Sky Arte. Actually he is post-producing is new movie documentary "Love Biography" and he is developing his new movie "GlassBoy", produced by Solaria Film & Echivisivi, selected by CineKid Junior Co-production Market, winning a Media Europe Fund and Mibact Italian Film Fund. In while he ve always been worked like filmmaker and audiovisual expert in the audiovisual commercial production and he worked for more ten years as like tutor and educator for kids.- Producer
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Nanni Moretti was born on the 19th of August, 1953. He lives in Rome, where since he was a kid he devotes himself to his two passions: cinema and water-polo. In 1970 he also played in water-polo first division in Italy, and in the junior National team. In those years he was also very committed in politics, within the youth league of the Italian Communist Party. Once finished high school studies, he sold his stamps collection to buy a super8 cinema camera, using which he started shooting home-made short films with his friends in 1973. His professional movie-making career starts with Ecce bombo (1978). This was also his first nation-wide success, and still a cult-movie for many Italians.- Director
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Laura Samani was born on 9 October 1989 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. Laura is a director and writer, known for Small Body (2021), The Sleeping Saint (2016) and Rosso liquido (2013).- Director
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Niccolò Castelli was born on 4 March 1982 in Lugano, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Atlas (2021), Tutti giù (2012) and Endsieg - Everything Changes in One Shot (2008).- Director
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Antonio Manetti was born on 16 September 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and producer, known for Love and Bullets (2017), Song of Napoli (2013) and Diabolik (2021).- Director
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Marco Manetti was born on 15 January 1968 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and producer, known for Love and Bullets (2017), Song of Napoli (2013) and Diabolik (2021).- Producer
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Uberto Pasolini was born on 1 May 1957 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a producer and writer, known for The Full Monty (1997), Nowhere Special (2020) and Machan (2008). He was previously married to Rachel Portman.- Director
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Fabio Guaglione was born on 13 September 1981 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Mine (2016), My Name Is Vendetta (2022) and Afterville (2008).- Writer
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Alberto Fasulo born in 1976, started working in the movie industry as assistant director, between fiction and creative documentary, learning the job on film sets. In 2008 he directed and produced his first feature film, documentary Rumore Bianco, selected by many international festivals and distributed in theaters in Italy. His debut singled him out as «a new promising author» according to Italian critics. In 2013 he directed "TIR" his first fiction feature film, and won the gold Marc'Aurelio for the best film in the International competition at Rome Film Festival. Alberto Fasulo participates in 68th Locarno Film Festival with Genitori (Parents), a documentary film that faces the issue of disability from an unusual point of view, avoiding pietism, rhetoric, and irony. In 2018 Menocchio by Alberto Fasulo is selected in the Official Competition at 71st Locarno Film Festival and wins the Junior Jury Special Mention. In October 2018 Menocchio wins the Grand Prix at the festival Annency Cinéma Italien.- Director
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Mimmo Calopresti was born on 4 January 1955 in Polistena, Calabria, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for La seconda volta (1995), Notes of Love (1998) and Aspromonte: Land of the Forgotten (2019). He has been married to Cristina Cosentino since June 2008.- Director
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Graduated in Architecture in Rome he gained a Fulbright scholarship and took up studies in film at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. After several short experimental films and documentaries, he made his feature film debut in 2002 with "What you're looking for" (Quello Che Cerchi). "Shelter me" (Riparo) his second feature film opened at the Berlin film festival in 2007 and toured the world afterward in over 100 festivals. The feature documentary "The Color of words" (Il Colore delle Parole) was in competition Orizzonti at the Venice film festival in 2009. "Like the Wind" (Come il Vento), his third feature had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival in 2013. In recent years he directed several documentaries and co-produced young filmmakers first features. He then wrote and directed "The Invisible Thread" (Il filo invisibile) a Netflix Original dramedy widely appreciated by both critics and the public. President of the filmmakers association "Ring" and co-founder of the writers and director guild "100 autori", Puccioni is also an experienced teacher having taught at Fine arts Academy in Perugia and teaching directing at the Volonté film school in Rome.- Director
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Davide Ferrario was born on 26 June 1956 in Casalmaggiore, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for After Midnight (2004), We All Fall Down (1997) and Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009).- Director
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Wilma Labate was born on 4 December 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for La mia generazione (1996), The Girl Flew (2021) and Signorina Effe (2007).- Director
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Alina Marazzi was born on 5 November 1964 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for All About You (2012), Vogliamo anche le rose (2007) and For One More Hour with You (2002).- Director
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Franco Maresco was born on 5 May 1958 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Belluscone. Una storia siciliana (2014), Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995) and How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004).- Cinematographer
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Daniele Ciprì was born on 17 August 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is a cinematographer and director, known for It Was the Son (2012), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003) and Lo zio di Brooklyn (1995).- Director
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Giacomo Abbruzzese was born on 3 June 1983 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Disco Boy (2023), Archipel (2010) and Fireworks (2011).- Director
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Gianfranco Pannone is known for L'esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Latina/Littoria (2001) and Kelibia-Mazara (1998).- Writer
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Giuseppe Piccioni was born on 2 July 1953 in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Not of This World (1999), Light of My Eyes (2001) and The Shadow of the Day (2022).- Writer
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Pupi Avati was born on 3 November 1938 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Gli amici del bar Margherita (2009), Giovanna's Father (2008) and The Story of Boys & Girls (1989). He has been married to Amelia Turri since 1964. They have three children.- Writer
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Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other family members, including an aunt who told him frighting bedtime stories. Argento based most of his thriller movies on childhood trauma, yet his own--according to him--was a normal one. Along with tales spun by his aunt, Argento was impressed by stories from The Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe. Argento started his career writing for various film journal magazines while still in his teens attending a Catholic high school. After graduation, instead of going to college, Argento took a job as a columnist for the Rome daily newspaper "Paese Sera". Inspired by the movies, he later found work as a screenwriter and wrote several screenplays for a number of films, but the most important were his western collaborations, which included Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) and the Sergio Leone masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). After its release Argento wrote and directed his first movie, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), which starred Tony Musante and and British actress Suzy Kendall. It's a loose adoption on Fredric Brown's novel "The Screaming Mimi", which was made for his father's film company. Argento wanted to direct the movie himself because he did not want any other director messing up the production and his screenplay.
After "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" became an international hit, Argento followed up with two more thrillers, The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), starring 'Karl Madlen' (qv" and 'James Fransiscus', and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) ("Four Flies On Black Velvet"), both backed by his father Salvatore. Argento then directed the TV drama Testimone oculare (1973) and the historical TV drama The Five Days (1973). He then went back to directing so-called "giallo" thrillers, starting with Deep Red (1975), a violent mystery-thriller starring David Hemmings that inspired a number of international directors in the thriller-horror genre. His next work was Suspiria (1977), a surreal horror film about a witch's coven that was inspired by the Gothic fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson, which he also wrote in collaboration with his girlfriend, screenwriter/actress Daria Nicolodi, who acted in "Profondo Rosso" ("Deep Red") and most of Argento's films from then to the late 1980s. Argento advanced the unfinished trilogy with Inferno (1980), before returning to the "giallo" genre with the gory Tenebrae (1982), and then with the haunting Phenomena (1985).
The lukewarm reviews for his films, however, caused Argento to slip away from directing to producing and co-writing two Lamberto Bava horror flicks, Demons (1985) and Demons 2 (1986). Argento returned to directing with the "giallo" thriller Opera (1987), which according to him was "a very unpleasant experience", and no wonder: a rash of technical problems delayed production, the lead actress Vanessa Redgrave dropped out before filming was to begin, Argento's father Salvatore died during filming and his long-term girlfriend Daria broke off their relationship. After the commercial box-office failure of "Opera", Argento temporarily settled in the US, where he collaborated with director George A. Romero on the two-part horror-thriller Two Evil Eyes (1990) (he had previously collaborated with Romero on the horror action thriller Dawn of the Dead (1978)). While still living in America, Argento appeared in small roles in several films and directed another violent mystery thriller, Trauma (1993), which starred his youngest daughter Asia Argento from his long-term relationship with Nicolodi.
Argento returned to Italy in 1995, where he made a comeback in the horror genre with The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) and then with another version of "The Phantom of the Opera", The Phantom of the Opera (1998), both of which starred Asia. Most recently, Argento directed a number of "giallo" mystery thrillers such as Sleepless (2001), The Card Player (2003) and Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005), as well as two gory, supernatural-themed episodes of the USA TV cable anthology series Masters of Horror (2005).
Having always wanted to make a third chapter to his "Three Mothers" horror films, Argento finally completed the trilogy in 2007 with the release of Mother of Tears (2007), which starred Asia Argento as a young woman trying to identify and stop the last surviving evil witch from taking over the world. In addition to his Gothic and violent style of storytelling, "La terza madre" has many references to two of his previous films, "Suspiria" (1997) and "Inferno" (1980), which is a must for fans of the trilogy.
His movies may be regarded by some critics and opponents as cheap and overly violent, but second or third viewings show him to be a talented writer/director with a penchant for original ideas and creative directing.- Director
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Gianfranco Pannone is known for L'esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Latina/Littoria (2001) and Kelibia-Mazara (1998).- Director
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Mario Martone was born on 20 November 1959 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for L'amore molesto (1995), The King of Laughter (2021) and Capri-Revolution (2018). He has been married to Ippolita Di Majo since 2010. They have one child.- Writer
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Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theater, he became the assistant director to Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Pigeon Shoot, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extramarital. His second movie, The Reckless, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965; it's about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
After having filmed for Paramount the heist movie Grand Slam (1967) and the gangster film Machine Gun McCain (1969) in the US, Montaldo returned to Italy to direct The Fifth Day of Peace (1970), Sacco and Vanzetti (in competition at Cannes Film Festival, where it won Best Actor 1971) and Giordano Bruno (1973). These films received great recognition and were widely appreciated at various film festivals around the world. The theme of the Resistance underlined And Agnes Chose to Die (1977).
In 1980 the director engaged in the production of a television series about the exploration of Marco Polo, an international co-production with RAI, BBC and NBC. It was filmed in Italy, the Middle East, Tibet, Mongolia and China. It was shown in 76 nations, and won 4 Emmy Awards. Other awards worldwide for cinematography, production design and costumes were received. Montaldo's experience with China reveals a turning point in his work.
Other films he directed are Closed Circuit (in competition at the Berlinale in 1978 and in permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art), A Dangerous Toy (1979), The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987), Control (1987), and Time to Kill (1989).
Always worked with an international cast. Some of the actors that worked with him are: Burt Lancaster, Rupert Everett, Nicolas Cage, Philippe Noiret, Janet Leigh, Edward G. Robinson, John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Rade Serbedzija, Charlotte Rampling, Ingrid Thulin, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, F. Murray Abraham, Leonard Nimoy.
Some of his usual collaborators have been score composer Ennio Morricone and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.
Montaldo is also internationally recognized as a Opera director, directed commercials, documentaries and experimental film technology projects. From 1999 he was president of RAI Cinema, a major film production company, for 5 years in which the movies he produced became box office hits, won awards all over the world and formed a new generation of Italian directors.
In 2001 he was appointed Cavaliere di Gran Croce by the president of Italy, one of the top honors of the Republic.- Writer
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The son of a Chilean woman of Swiss-French origins and an Italian father, he grew up in Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires. At the age of twenty he was expelled from Argentina for political reasons: he landed in Milan and there he lived throughout the 1980s, while also spending lots of time in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He has been a school teacher in Buenos Aires, a Polaroid photographer and a video-artist in New York. He got to directing after going to the Albedo film school in Milano in 1981. His first movie, Barbed Wire (1991), was screened in festivals in Locarno, Madrid and Brussels. Bechis went on to direct Garage Olimpo (1999), a film that has been screened in a wide range of international festivals including Cannes.- Director
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Mario Balsamo is known for Mia madre fa l'attrice (2015), Noi non siamo come James Bond (2012) and Sotto il cielo di Baghdad (2003).- Director
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Adriano Valerio was born in 1977 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for 37°4 S (2013), Banat: The Journey (2015) and Casablanca (2023).- Director
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Paola Randi is known for Little Tito and the Aliens (2017), Into Paradiso (2010) and Giulietta della spazzatura (2003).