STRADE, STRAPPI E STRACOMUNITARI

Gianni Ubaldo Canale

(Turin, 1966) participated in 1985 in an internship with Jean Rouch and began working in TV in 1989, first for the private broadcaster Videouno, and then making investigative reports broadcast on Italia Uno (Pronto Intervento) and Raidue (Mixer), and for Logos TV, coordinating, directing, and editing various documentaries about sports and history. In 2003, he was one of the founders of the home video production company Videoerre, with which he collaborated with Rai, making programs about Pirandello, Dario Fo, Garinei and Giovannini, La smorfia, Alberto Sordi… In 2011, he returned to directing self-produced documentaries such as Privilegi operai (2011) and, at the same time, editing series of DVDs dedicated to the history of TV and cinema, Pasolini, Visconti, groups such as the Pooh, and programs such as Drive In. Since 2018, he has been primarily involved in communicating and making content for social networks and online platforms.

FILMOGRAFIA

Privilegi operai (doc, 2011), Tra noi e la rabbia (doc, 2022).

Peppo Rapisarda

Peppo Rapisarda (Catania, 1956) began his activity in the visual arts as a photographer at an important geographical agency in Turin. He entered the audiovisual field when he made several documentaries on Piedmontese and Lombard artists for Turinese art galleries in 1978. He is also involved in video art and has participated in a Sicilian series on video art. In 1980-85 he worked on documentaries dealing with social issues and collaborated with several regional Tv stations. At the end of the 1980's he worked for the advertising agency, Aba Pubblicità, where he collaborated on making industrial videos and commercials. In the 1990's he returned to television, where he directed several films and entered his videos in several Turin Film Festivals. At present he is a teacher at the video workshop of the Piedmont Region managed by the cooperative, Animation Valdocco.