Daniela Ambrosoli

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Daniela Ambrosoli

Daniela Ambrosoli (born November 10, 1941 in Ascona ) is a Swiss entrepreneur , patron , founder and president of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation and a film director .

Life

Daniela Ambrosoli, daughter of the German expressive dancer Sonja Bragowa and the Lombardy-born Ticino businessman Pierino Ambrosoli , was born in Ascona, Switzerland. She attended school in Ascona and Locarno , where she passed the federal, classic Matura . In the following years she studied at the universities of Florence, Zurich and Geneva and gained work experience in the fields of psychology and medicine.

After the untimely death of her father, she learned management and took over some of the companies that were founded by her father and businessman, among them the Camping Delta in Locarno in 1983 together with her husband and the real estate company Amministrazioni Immobiliari Ambrosoli also in Locarno . In 1999 she founded Travel & Culture Management AG in Zurich.

In 1990 Daniela Ambrosoli founded the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation in Zurich, an organization that supports the training of young talents in their dance and music education around the world.

In the following years Daniela Ambrosoli became a member of several boards of directors of international associations, for example Prix ​​de Lausanne , which are involved in the fields of dance and music as well as in humanitarian and social fields, for example Soroptimist International , Union Switzerland.

As part of her collaboration with the Italian director Renato Pugina, together with two of her children Aliocha Merker (cameraman and photographer in Rome) and Shari Yantra Marcacci (photographer, film director and producer in Los Angeles), Daniela Ambrosoli came into contact with the film world. Since 2004 she has been working with Renato Pugina as assistant director, organizer and translator of documentaries for the RSI (Radio and Television of Italian Switzerland): La Depressione, il male oscuro (2004), Sul corpo e nel cuore (2007), In un corpo sbagliato (2009), Madri figlicide (2010), L'ultimo viaggio (2013), I sopravvisuti (2014), Il sogno di Hans (2015), Via dal Ticino (2015). Daniela Ambrosoli is co-director with Renato Pugina for the documentary Per Amor di Dio (2011) RSI.

In 2008/2009 Daniela Ambrosoli made a documentary about Hermann Nitsch , the Austrian artist and founding father of Viennese Actionism . Together with her team, including Aliocha Merker as cameraman and director of photography and Johannes Nakajima as editor, she accompanies Hermann Nitsch in his private life and life as an artist for a whole year, in order to then document the moving portrait of this extraordinary man. In 2011 the film HN Hermann Nitsch was awarded the Audience Award for the best documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in Los Angeles.

In 2017, “The Making of a Dream - Life as a ballet dancer” was created, a film essay about ballet, dance, dancers and their lives. This documentary focuses on the difficult path of discerning young people from their first steps in amateur dance schools to a career as a leading dance actor in one of the world's most famous dance companies. Interviews were carried out with famous protagonists of the dance scene worldwide, such as the well-known dancer, Etoile from Milan Scala, Béjart's muse Luciana Savignano, as well as with the Swiss actress Sabine Timoteo , a former dancer. The documentary was shot in many renowned dance companies and schools in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and in the USA (Boston and New York). From May 2018 "The Making of a Dream" was shown at the Stüssihof cinema in Zurich for six weeks and distributed worldwide by Taskovskifilms London.

Filmography

  • The Making of a Dream 2017, documentary 2017, screenplay, director, producer
  • Figli? No grace! 2017, documentary RSI 2017, assistant director, coordinator and translation
  • Via dal Ticino 2015, documentary RSI 2015, assistant director, coordinator and translation
  • Il sogno di Hans 2015, documentary RSI 2015, assistant director, coordinator and translation
  • I sopravvissuti 2014, documentary RSI 2014, assistant director, coordinator and translation
  • L'ultimo viaggio 2013, documentary RSI 2013, assistant director, organization and translation
  • Per Amor di Dio 2011, documentary RSI 2011, co-director, organization and translation
  • The Fish, short film 2011 by Shari Yantra Marcacci, executive producer
  • Madri figlicide, documentary RSI 2010, assistant director, organization and translation
  • HN Hermann Nitsch, documentary film 2009, project, screenplay, director, co-producer
  • In un corpo sbagliato, documentary RSI 2009, assistant director, organization and translation
  • Sul corpo e nel cuore, documentary RSI 2007, assistant director, organization and translation
  • Depressione un male oscuro, documentary RSI 2004, assistant director, organization and translation

Awards

  • Official Selection "LA Femme International Film Festival 2017"
  • Winner Best Documentary «Utah Dance Film Festival 2018»
  • Winner Best Documentary "Austrian Independent Film Festival 2018"
  • Nominated Best Cinematography «Nice International Film Festival 2018»
  • Semi-finalist "Women International Film Festival", Orlando (US-FL)
  • 2011 HN Hermann Nitsch, Audience Award for the best documentary at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, Los Angeles.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: Figli? No, grace! Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  2. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: Via dal Ticino. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: Il sogno di Hans. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  4. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: I sopravvissuti. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  5. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: L'ultimo viaggio. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  6. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: Per amor di Dio. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  7. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: Madri figlicide. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
  8. ^ RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera: In un corpo sbagliato. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Ambrosoli, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ascona , Switzerland