Paul Tana

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Paul Tana (born January 8, 1947) is an Italian-Canadian film director and screenwriter. [1] He is most noted for his 1992 film The Saracen Woman (La Sarrasine), which received ten Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992 including a nomination for Tana in the Best Original Screenplay category. [2]

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Born in Ancona, Marche, Italy, Tana emigrated to Canada with his family in childhood. [3] He studied literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal before joining the Association Coopérative des Productions Audio-Visuelles, [4] for whom he made a number of short films before releasing his debut feature film, Day by Day (Les grands enfants), in 1980.

His 1985 documentary film Caffè Italia, Montréal won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. [5] He followed up with the narrative feature films La Sarrasine in 1992, [6] and Mr. Aiello (La Déroute) in 1998. [7]

Since Mr. Aiello, Tana has concentrated primarily on documentary films, most notably the Ricordato di noi project to recover lost footage of Montreal's Italian community newsmagazine television series Teledomenica. [8]

He then made a trilogy of short documentaries, also on Italian emigration, consisting of: Souviens-toi de nous in 2008, Marguerita in 2015 and Le figuier in 2018.

His latest documentary Fellini premières fois tells the story of how Federico Fellini was seen and discovered by Quebec filmmakers and film professionals.

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References

  1. ↑ Paul De Léan, "Montreal director Tana rolls the dice with latest effort, La Sarrasine". Montreal Gazette , February 18, 1992.
  2. ↑ H. J. Kirchhoff, "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". The Globe and Mail , October 14, 1992.
  3. ↑ Janis L. Pallister, The Cinema of Québec: Masters in Their Own House. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995. ISBN   9780838635629. p. 419.
  4. ↑ Fuad Alnirabie and Michael Vesia, "Paul Tana and the Italian immigrant experience in Canada". Offscreen, Volume 5, Issue 1 / January 2001.
  5. ↑ Bruce Bailey, "Film made in Montreal takes prize". Montreal Gazette , January 29, 1986.
  6. ↑ "La Sarrasine shows that cultural clashes are not something new". Montreal Gazette , February 16, 1992.
  7. ↑ "Sweet 16: The 16th Rendez-vous de Cinema Quebecois embraces the province's multicultural character for the first time". Montreal Gazette , February 20, 1998.
  8. ↑ Carole Gagliardi, "Teledomenica's memories". Montreal Gazette , July 3, 2005.
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