Giacomo Campiotti ( Italian: Giacomo Campiotti ; born July 8, 1957 , Varese , Lombardy , Italy ) - Italian film director , screenwriter and producer . Winner of the Golden Gryphon awards at the and the Tourney at the .
| Giacomo Campiotti | |
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| ital. Giacomo campiotti | |
| Date of Birth | July 8, 1957 (aged 62) |
| Place of Birth | Varese , Italy |
| Citizenship | Italy |
| Profession | film director , screenwriter , producer |
| Career | 1983 — present |
| Direction | Italian cinema of the late XX - early XXI century |
| Awards | The Golden Gryphon ( 1990 ) The Turnage ( 2000 ) |
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Biography
Giacomo Campiotti was born in Varese, in Lombardy on July 8, 1957. He graduated from the University of Bologna with a bachelor 's degree in pedagogy . He attended the theater school of . For several years he collaborated with an open-air theater, working on productions on the streets of Italy and abroad [1] .
Career start
Since the early 1980s, he has been working in the film industry . He was an assistant and assistant director of Mario Monicelli in the films Marquis del Grillo (1981), (1986) and Dodgers (1987). He joined the group “ ”, founded in 1982 by Ermanno Olmi in Bassano del Grappa . In this alternative film school, conceived by the founder as a laboratory, applicants were transferred not collective knowledge, but experience [1] .
By order of the Rai Uno television channel, he shot the first short films Three Women (1983), Bomb (1985) and Back to the Cinema (1986) based on the history of Cesare Zavattini . The debut was successful. His first feature film “ Street of Spring ” (1989) about life in the province through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy was favorably received at the Critics Week at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the “ David di Donatello ” award (1990) in the category “ Best Directorial Debut ” and “ Nastro d'Argento "(1990) in the categories" Best Actress "and" Best Debut in Directing ". The film received the Golden Gryphon Award - the main prize of the Jiffon Film Festival [1] .
From 1991 to 1992 he worked on the creation of video clips for singers and singers, in particular for the composer and performer Lucco Dalla [2] .
His second full-length film “ ” (1994) about a young man with a troubled family life was immediately noticed by critics and the public. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award (1996) in the Best Foreign Film category, the Golden Leopard Award (1994) of the Locarno Film Festival in the Best Young Film Director category, and the Nastro d'Argento Award (1996) ) in the categories "Best Producer" and "Best Original Screenplay"; in the last category, Giacomo Campiotti won, who shared the award with the co-author of the script, Lucia Maria Dzei . The film was also nominated for the David di Donatello Award in the Best Supporting Actor category, in which Giancarlo Giannini won. [3]
By order of the company “Oriza production”, he took part in the creation of the documentary series “Portraits of Authors” (1996), dedicated to famous contemporary Italian filmmakers. He directed the sixth episode of the second season of Ermanno Olmi (1996) about his teacher, mounting it from a series of interviews [2] .
Later, in his script, Giacomo Campioti directed the film “ Time to Love ” (1999), a joint production of Great Britain and France, a love story in three episodes - English, French and Italian, which begins at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa and continues in France during World War II The war ends in Italy at the end of the 20th century. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard Award (1999) of the Locarno Film Festival in the category "Best Film for a Young Director" and received the Tournament Award (2000) - the main prize of the Avignon Film Festival [4] [5] .
In the movie " " (2005), Giacomo Campiotti made his debut as a producer. He was also a film director and screenwriter, along with Alexander Adabashyan . The story of teenagers who graduated from school and went to the mountains to spend the last summer together, before starting another new life, was nominated for the David di Donatello Award (2006) in the Best Film category and the Nastro d'Argento Award ( 2006) in the category “Best Soundtrack” - the song “With or without you” ( Italian: Sei o non sei dei ) by composers Corrado Carosio and Pierangelo Fornaro . His film “ ” (2012) based on the novel by also nominated for the Nastro d'Argento Award (2013) in the category “Best Soundtrack” - the song “You you can’t die ”( Italian: Se si potesse non morire ) of the band Modà [6] [7] .
TV Series
Giacomo Campiotti directed his first series Doctor Zhivago (2002) based on the script by Andrew Davis based on the novel by Boris Pasternak . The project was implemented with the participation of film companies in the UK, USA and Germany. The series was nominated for a prize by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2003) in the categories of "Best Drama Series", "Best Costumer" and "Best Young Director"; Giacomo Campiotti went through the first and last categories. The series was also nominated for the Satellite Award (2004) in the category "Best Drama Series" [1] .
The next series “ ” (2007) about the tragic love story of the countess and soldier during the First World War, he shot based on two novels - “ Farewell to arms! Ernest Hemingway and War in the Mountains by Rudyard Kipling . In the same year he was filmed the series “ ”about St. Giuseppe Moscati , a doctor who devoted his life to caring for the health of poor, sick people. This two-part film won the prize of the in the category "Best Series", received critical acclaim, had great success with the audience and became the first series of the director about the Holy Roman Catholic Church . Following him, he shot two-part films “ Bahita ” (2009) about Saint Giuseppin Bahita and “I ” (2010) about Saint Philip Neri [2] . In one of his interviews, Giacomo Campiotti said that he makes films about saints for everyone, including atheists who can find something for themselves in them [8] .
His series “ ” (2010) about the first trial of members of the Red Brigades in Turin was also a great success with the audience and received a special prize at the XII International Festival of Detective Films in Moscow (2010). For the role of Emelyan Pugachev in his next work, “The ” (2011), on the novel of the same name by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, he invited Bulgarian director and actor . The international cast also participated in the filming of his series “ ” (2012), about the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary , performed by the German actress and the life of St. Mary Magdalene , performed by the Spanish actress Pas Vega [2 ] .
The latest works by Giacomo Campiotti on television were the series “ 's ” (2014) about the life of a famous teacher, writer and TV presenter and the first season of the series “ ” (2014) about the life of a writer, scriptwriter and director , who has been fighting cancer and conquering the disease since adolescence for ten years [9] [10] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Giacomo Campiotti. Biografia e Filmografia (Italian) . Coming Soon.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Annalice Furfari. Giacomo Campiotti (Italian) . My movies
- ↑ Manuel Sgarella. Dopo l'Europa anche Varese applaude Campiotti (Italian) (link not available) . Varese News. Archived on October 30, 2014.
- ↑ Manuel Sgarella. Tutto esaurito per la prima varesina del film di Campiotti (Italian) (link not available) . Varese News. Archived on October 30, 2014.
- ↑ Le stagioni del cuore. Giacomo Campiotti con Paola Casella (Italian) . Caffe europa.
- ↑ MODA '- Nella colonna sonora del nuovo film di Giacomo Campiotti (Italian) . Cinema Italiano.
- ↑ Emanuela Genovese. Campiotti: “Il mio film sui ragazzi autentici” (Italian) . Avvenire
- ↑ Giacomo Campiotti a Tv Talk: “Maria di Nazaret un film anche per i non credenti” (Italian) . Tv Blog.
- ↑ Giacomo Campiotti. Non è mai troppo tardi (Italian) (link not available) . RAI Archived on March 6, 2014.
- ↑ Giacomo Campiotti. Braccialetti rossi (Italian) (link not available) . RAI Archived on November 9, 2014.
Links
- Giacomo Campiotti . Kinopoisk. - Films of Giacomo Campiotti.