Fabio Cavadini

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Fabio Cavadini is an Italian - Australian producer and director of documentaries.

Career

Cavadini has produced with Amanda King and has directed documentaries since 1987. Both deal with topics related to environmental protection, indigenous rights and their art in Australia and the neighboring regions. Cavadini and King owns the film production company Frontyard Films .

Cavadini grew up mainly in Switzerland . His father died there when Fabio was three years old. His mother was a waitress who lived on tips. There was no salary, which is why she always lived where there were tourists. In summer by the lakes or by the sea, in winter in the mountains. At times Cavadini also lived with his grandparents in Italy. In 1969 he emigrated to Australia from near Milan . He actually wanted to go to New Zealand , but Fabio's brother was already living in Australia and encouraged him to come here too. Fabio Cavadini worked as a dental technician specializing in the production of chrome - cobalt plates, for which there were only a few experts in Australia at the time. Even without knowledge of English, Cavadini was able to find work immediately.

By his own admission, Cavadini was not even aware that there were Aborigines in Australia until 1972 . During this time, his brother Alessandro was making a documentary about the political left, which was widely dispersed and divided in Australia. In contrast, the Aborigines seemed strong and united when it came to the fight for their rights, which is why Alessandro changed the subject of his film and reported on the first tented message of the Aborigines in Canberra under the title Ningla aN . Fabio, who had already worked with photography, was accepted into the shooting team for auxiliary work. In this way he met Aboriginal activists like Gary Foley and others. The activists worked as actors and went on tour. When they asked Fabio Cavadini to come with them to take care of the lighting and take photos, he gave up his job as a dental technician and went on tour for six months. Back in Sydney accompanied Fabio in 1976 his brother filming the movie Protected by Palm Iceland . Since the recordings expanded a lot, the cameraman got out and Fabio took over his duties. Another film about the Aborigines in Tully followed: We Stop Here .

In 1989 the film Buried Alive: The Story of East Timor was released, the first Australian film about the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 and the East Timorese resistance. Fabio Cavadini co-directed with Gilbert Frederick Scrine and Rob Hibberd. The East Timor activist and later Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta also took part in the film. Cavadini accompanied and filmed him in Australia, Mozambique and New York .

Together with Amanda King, who had already been involved with East Timor for a long time, a film team traveled to the country occupied by Indonesia in 1989 for research and filming that had to take place half-secretly. In 1990 the film The Shadow Over East Timor was completed and aired on SBS just a few months before the Santa Cruz massacre on November 12, 1991. Films about crises and conflicts in Bougainville ( An Evergreen Island , 2000), Papua New Guinea ( Color Change , 2011) and others about East Timor followed ( Starting From Zero , 2002; Time to Draw the Line , 2017). A Thousand Different Angles from 2010 tells the story of Berlin-born Australian sculptor Inge King .

In 2014, Cavadini received the Insígnia des Ordem de Timor-Leste from East Timor's President Taur Matan Ruak .

Filmography (selection)

  • Time to Draw the Line (2017)
  • Color Change (2011)
  • A Thousand Different Angles (2010)
  • Starting From Zero (2002)
  • On Evergreen Island (2000)
  • The Shadow Over East Timor (1990)
  • Buried alive: The Story of East Timor (1989)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Gaele Sobott: Time to Draw the Line: An Interview with Amanda King and Fabio Cavadini , accessed November 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Frontyard film
  3. ↑ A Thousand Different Angles , accessed November 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 25/2014 de 27 de Agosto , accessed on September 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cavadini, Fabio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Australian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century