Carola Spadoni

Coming from three generations of film and tv makers Carola learned her film theory while growing up in Rome. She moved to New York City to start her voyage as a filmmaker. After completing film studies at Brooklyn College in 1993 she has worked as camera assistant and cinematographer. Since 1992 Carola has directed several short films and a music video in New York and Roma. Her films have been shown at various international film festivals as well as screening series in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Roma, Milan, Berlin, London, Paris, Bombay and Hong Kong. With "Neighbors" she won the award for Best Upcoming Filmmaker at the Salerno Int'l Film festival in 1996. Her short films have been broadcasted on Channel 4 (U.K.), Tele+1 and Canale 5 (Italy),RTSI (Switzerland) and few cable channels in the U.S. "Freddy and Victor blind date" has been also shown at the John Weber gallery (N.Y.C.), the ICA Museum (Boston), the Chisenhale gallery (London) and in the Orestecinema program at the Venice Art Biennale in 1999.Carola gave a lecture at New York University on "Personal filmmaking toward an experimental fiction"in 1998.