Davide Ferrario

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Davide Ferrario
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Born26 June 1956 (1956-06-26) (age 67)
Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy
Occupation(s)Italian film director, screenwriter and author

Davide Ferrario (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author.

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Life and career

Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio. [1] [2] He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum, and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [1]

After collaborating on several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali, and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir The End of the Night. [1] [2] His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award. [3] Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film, Fade to Black by Oliver Parker. [4]

Selected filmography

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Si. Ro. "Davide Ferrario: Il militante del cinema italiano". MyMovies . Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 Paolo D'Agostini (27 August 1994). "Cacciatori di felicità". La Repubblica . Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Gianluigi De Palo; Federico Pontiggia; Federico Pontiggia (2004). I sogni dei giovani. Effata Editrice IT, 2004. ISBN   8874021704.
  4. ↑ "Un film su Orson Welles diretto da Oliver Parker". La Repubblica . 11 April 2005. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
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