Vanna Paoli
Vanna Paoli (born June 12, 1948 in Borgo San Lorenzo ) is an Italian director and screenwriter .
Life
Paoli studied from 1971 at the DAMS of the Università degli studi di Bologna . She mainly dealt with photography and worked with the "Odin Teatret". In 1978 she graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia , which she then attended, with the short film L'origine della notte e della luna . The following short film dealt with pornographic comics. Further work in the documentary sector and for television as well as in various functions for productions by colleagues and theater directing for Belzebustric (1985), Stelle, stellacce, stelline ... and Piccolo spettacolo di avanspettacolo followed.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Paoli presented three feature films that were screened as Italian contributions at various festivals, but were then hardly ever seen at all; In 1990 Lungo il fiume was created with Carmen Scarpitta in the leading role, the following year the completely unpublished Roma! Roma! Roma! . In 1995 it finally followed La casa rosa , in which Giulia Boschi and Stefano Davanzati could be seen, which was shown at the Venice Film Festival and became a veritable success on pay-TV in the USA . A fourth work followed almost ten years later, Detective per caso .
Paoli has lived in the United States since 1998 with her husband, author Jay Pridmore, and also holds seminars at the University of Chicago .
Filmography (selection)
- Director
- 1990: Lungo il fiume
- 1991: Roma! Roma! Roma! (unpublished)
- 1995: La casa rosa
- 2003: Detective per caso
Web links
- Vanna Paoli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome, Gremese 2002, pp. 319/320
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paoli, Vanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borgo San Lorenzo |