Walter Fasano

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Walter Fasano (born April 10, 1970 in Bari ) is an Italian film editor and screenwriter . Fasano has u. a. worked with Luca Guadagnino , Ferzan Özpetek , Lucio Pellegrini , Marco Ponti and Maria Sole Tognazzi.

Life

Walter Fasano studied at the University of Bologna . He received his diploma at the DAMS in Bologna with a thesis on the Italian crime film of the 1970s. He then studied film editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Scuola Nazionale di Cinema) in Rome with Roberto Perpignani .

He began his professional career as an editor of video clips and commercials. In 1997, the Italian experimental and underground filmmaker Tonino De Bernardis hired him for the last part of his Sorrisi asmatici film trilogy , which has only been shown at film festivals and in art galleries and museums.

His long-term collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino began with the 14-minute short film Qui (1997) and the feature film The Protagonists (1999) , with whom he worked on a total of twelve films as editor and screenwriter, most recently on the remake of Dario Argentos Horror film Suspiria from 1977 and the short film The Staggering Girl (2019). In 2018 he and Luca Guadagnino were appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Prizes and awards

  • 2014 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Silver Ribbon, Nomination: Best Documentary About Cinema (Miglior Documentario sul Cinema) together with Luca Guadagnino, for Bertolucci on Bertolucci

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IMDb, Suspiria (2017)
  2. Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).