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Mario Amura | |
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| Born | 18 April 1973 Naples, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
| Website | mario-amura |
Mario Amura (born 1973) is an Italian photographer and cinematographer.
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Mario Amura | |
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| Born | 18 April 1973 Naples, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1993–present |
| Website | mario-amura |
Mario Amura (born 1973) is an Italian photographer and cinematographer.
After graduating in International Law from Naples University, Amura attended cinematography classes at Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school), in Rome. His career as a photographer started in 1993. In 1999, Studio d’Arte Memoli in Milan published the first catalogue of his photographic collected works. His debut as a professional cinematographer was in 2003 with Maurizio Fiume's full feature E io ti seguo (I Will Follow You), a selection at the Montreal World Film Festival. Amongst some of his other major credits since 2003 is his collaboration with the Italian film director Vincenzo Marra, three documentaries ( Pasaggio a Sud , L’udienza è aperta , Il grande progetto ), and the 2004 feature film Vento di terra (Earth Wind), awarded at the 61st Venice Film Festival by Fipresci as most innovative movie. Amura's cinematography of Vento di Terra has been awarded the Giuseppe Rotunno award. With film director Paolo Sorrentino, Amura worked on the TV version of Eduardo De Filippo's drama Sabato, domenica e lunedì , the short movie La notte lunga , and the documentary La primavera del 2002. L’Italia protesta. L’Italia si ferma. In 2004, Amura worked with Luca Guadagnino on Cuoco contadino (Farmer Chef), and the following year he was involved in the making of Melissa P. . In 2005, he worked on Sorry, You Can't Get Through! by Paolo Genovese and Luca Miniero. With Luca Miniero, Amura also shot several advertising spots. In 2007, he worked on Saverio Costanzo's movie In memoria di me (In Memory of Me), for whose cinematography he was once again awarded the Giuseppe Rotunno award and nominated for the Ciak d’oro award. In 2010, Amura worked on Sabina Guzzanti's documentary Draquila – L'Italia che trema , Alessandro Aronadio's Due vite per caso (One Life, Maybe Two), and Paola Randi's Into paradiso . His list of collaborations with Italian film directors also includes Nina Di Maio, Volfango De Biasi, and Serafino Murri.
As a film director, in 2003, Amura shot Racconto di guerra (War Story), a short movie set in Sarajevo during the Balkan war. [1] The short was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Short Film the same year and the Ciak d'oro for best short movie in 2004.
Since 2007, Amura has been working on a photographic live-performance project, StopEmotion, now developed by Emoticron as a special software to live-edit real-time videos from sequences of pictures played to music. In November 2014, Amura founded and became CCO of Emoticron, an innovative startup based in Naples, Italy. Its mission is simplifying and reinventing photo/video sharing through software enabling users to "play images as music notes", live-recording and editing sequences of pre-selected pictures on a chosen musical score. Since then, Emoticron has developed the web application and mobile app StopEmotion.
2003: best short movie (won) ''Racconto di guerra''
2005: best cinematography (won) – Vento di terra
2007: best cinematography (won) – In memoria di me
2004: best short movie (won) – ''Racconto di guerra''
2007: best cinematography (nominated) In memoria di me
As cinematographer
As film director
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