Luigi Falorni

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Luigi Falorni (* 1971 in Florence ) is a film director, author, cameraman and producer living in Germany.

Luigi Falorni grew up in Mugello, a region of Tuscany north of Florence. He attended a science high school and graduated from high school in 1989. Between 1988 and 1993 he worked in Florence as a composer and arranger in two pop bands, Drops and Il fiore in bocca , and between 1990 and 1992 took a directing course at the Cooperativa Schermobianco . In 1994 he came to Munich at the University of Television and Film , where he studied directing and camera in the documentary film course. In 2003 he shot a diploma film The Story of the Weeping Camel , in which he worked as a writer and director together with his fellow student Byambasuren Davaa and was also on camera. The film became a worldwide box office success and was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. In 2007 he made his feature film debut with Fireheart , inspired by the autobiography of the same name by Senait G. Mehari . The film had its world premiere in the competition at the Berlinale 2008 .

Written and directed by

2008 Feuerherz
Berlinale 2008 - in competition (nomination for the Golden Bear), Brussels European Film Festival 2008 - Audience Award (Telenet Award), Giffoni Film Festival 2008 (Amnesty International Award), Montreal International Children's Film Festival 2009 (Grand Prix de Montreal, Fipej Award), Seoul International Family Film Festival 2009 (Grand Prix of SIFFF)

2003 The Story of the Weeping Camel (co-director: Byambasuren Davaa )
Academy Awards ( Oscar ) - nomination Best Documentary 2005, Directors Guild of America (Outstanding Directorial Achievement Award 2005), Bavarian Film Prize (best documentary film 2003), European Film Prize (nomination Best Documentary 2003), German Film Prize (nomination for Best Documentary Film 2004), Gilde Film Prize (Best Documentary Film 2004), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2004 (Audience Award), San Francisco International Film Festival 2004 (Fipresci Award), Miami International Film Festival 2004 (Best Documentary Feature award)

1998 Heroes and Dreamers (Co-Director: Ondine Rarey)

1995 Impasse (short film)

camera

2007 Lost Town - the Dunwich Project (Director: Jörg Adolph )
2006 Brecht - The Art of Living (Director: Joachim Lang )
2005 Houwelandt - a novel is created (Director: Jörg Adolph )
2004 Kanalschwimmer (D: Jörg Adolph ) German Television Award 2005 - Best Documentation
2003 The Story of the Weeping Camel (D: Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni)
2002 Bajan (D: Alexei Mamedov)
2001 Nulla si sa, tutto si immagina - secondo Fellini (D: Susan Gluth)
2001 ON / OFF The Record (R : Jörg Adolph )
2000 Small, fast and out of control (D: Jörg Adolph ) German Television Award 2001 - Best Documentation
2000 Porto Marghera, inganno letale (D: Paolo Bonaldi)
2000 Unbreak my Heart (D: Ingo Knopf)
1999 Our water (R : Dinko Skapurovic)
1999 The orange horse (D: Byambasuren Davaa )
1998 Heroes and dreamers (D: Ondine Rarey and Luigi Falorni)
1996 Jackie Chan - Made in Hong Kong (D: Heike Ulrich, Brigitte Patzner, Sylvia Dahmen)
1996 The hidden Volk (D: Mona Lenz and Pia Elgas)
1995 Impasse (short film)

film producer

2009-13 Suddenly MDB - documentary (D: Nancy Brandt) / co-producer
2010 The man who jumped over cars - feature film (D: Nick-Baker Monteys) / co-producer

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personal data
SURNAME Falorni, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence