Giampaolo Lomi

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Giampaolo Lomi (born February 4, 1930 in Livorno ) is an Italian filmmaker.

Life

Lomi took part in an Amazon expedition as a camera technician in 1956 , stayed in Brazil and made several documentaries there . At the theater he assisted Adolfo Celi , organized European productions in South America and directed several short films for regional television stations. He worked in the 1960s and early 1970s on two Mondo films with Gualtiero Jacopetti and on a film with John Frankenheimer , and co-directed a Giallo with Edoardo Mulargia in 1972. After a comedy, I baroni (1975), This was followed by his last film shot for the cinema, the documentary film Il vescovo del silenzio about the controversial Bishop Marcel Lefebvre .

Lomi founded and directed the Manila International Film Festival in the Philippines for many years and worked on numerous scripts and screenplays from 1985 to 2004.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: Inferno under the hot sun (Al tropico del cancro) (co-director)
  • 1975: I baroni

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 246
  2. http://www.ofdb.de/film/18382,Inferno-unter-hei%C3%9Fer-Sonne