Elisabetta Pandimiglio

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Elisabetta Pandimiglio (* 1959 in Rome ) is an Italian author, film director and screenwriter .

Life

Pandimiglio graduated in literary studies and was involved in the implementation of theater projects for the "Associazione Culturale Punto Magnetico" from 1981 to 1985; In addition, she did research for the Italian studies department at La Sapienza University in Rome and took courses in scriptwriting. From 1986 on she worked for television; Until 1992 numerous historical and sociological documentaries were made. The feminist committed Pandimiglio founded the "Telefono Rosa" on the subject of violence against women (with annual reports published up to 2001 on the subject) and was involved in an initiative co-founded by Dacia Maraini to investigate the image of women in the media.

With César Meneghetti , with whom she worked again and again, she directed the short feature film Punti di vista in 1996 , which was awarded a silver ribbon , and the following year the Interferenze shown at several festivals ; further short works as sole director followed - Se un giorno qualcuno (1999), Cercando Eva (2000), Sem terra senza terra (2001), A Sud del Sud (2002) were awarded various prizes. After the play Merlino Caput LVIII , written with Fabio Jaquone , the first novel Pandimiglios was published in December 2001, Ilia di notte . Film projects in Brazil and Belgium followed.

In 2004 she received another silver ribbon for Motorboy . The film Contromano from the following year was a critical hit . Pandimiglio found further documentary material in cycling ( Taccone - Fuga in salita ), Italy's fascist past ( Testi e testimoni ) and the fate of the children of women in prison (the remarkable, often award-winning Mille giorni di Vito from 2009). In 2010 her second novel was published, Il camoscio e il borrac . The 2011 documentary Più come un artista dealt with the chef Gennaro Esposito . In 2013 she worked on the multimedia project Fame and projected the documentary Sbagliate about women who do not want to be mothers.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1998: Interferenze (co-director, book)
  • 2004: Motorboy (documentary)
  • 2005: Contromano
  • 2009: Mille giorni di Vito (documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rom, Gremese 2002, p. 318
  2. ↑ detailed work information from Scuola di cinema documentario Cesare Zavattini ( Memento from January 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Pandimiglio, Elisabetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome