Giovanni Davide Maderna

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Giovanni Davide Maderna (2012)

Giovanni Davide Maderna (born October 2, 1973 in Milan ) is an Italian film director .

Life

Maderna graduated in Human Sciences and then attended the Film Institute at the University of Lyon . As early as 1995 he began producing short films, the first La placa of which won the Sacher d'Oro. Other notable works followed; In 1999 he presented his feature film debut Questo è il giardino at the Venice Film Festival , which received several awards there and for which he received the Nastro d'Argento as best new director. L'amore imperfetto followed in 2002 , four years later the biopic Schopenhauer and finally the autobiographical Cielo senza terra in 2010 , in which Maderna and his son play themselves. Maderna produced the last two films herself.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Questo è il giardino
  • 2002: L'amore imperfetto
  • 2006: Schopenhauer
  • 2010: Cielo senza terra

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 254.