PARTIGIANI

Davide Ferrario

(Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy, 1956) graduated in Anglo-American literature. In the beginning of the 1980s he works with different cinema magazines and organizes film festivals and events. He is the author of many essays on cinema, of novels and several screenplays. He has directed short films and documentaries, and, among the long feature films, we would like to mention La fine della notte, Tutti giù per terra, based on the novel by Giuseppe Culicchia, and Guardami, screened in Venice in 1999. His novel Fade to Black, with fiction figure of Orson Welles, has been translated in many languages and in 2006 became an Oliver Parker’s film production of the same title. He partecipated at the Torino Film Festival with several titles, among which Materiale resistente (1995), codirected with Guido Chiesa, Sexx (2016), and Cento anni (2017). In 2020 he presented at the Festival the documentary feature Nuovo cinema paralitico (2020), and the following year the feature Just Noise.

FILMOGRAFIA

Non date da mangiare agli animali (cm, 1987), La fine della notte (1989), Lontano da Roma (doc, 1991), Anime fiammeggianti (1994), A Rimini (cm, 1995), Il figlio di Zelig (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (co-regia Guido Chiesa, doc, 1995), Confidential Report (doc, 1996), Estate in città (cm, 1996), Partigiani (doc, 1997), Tutti giù per terra (1997), Figli di Annibale (1998), Sul quarantacinquesimo parallelo (doc, 1998), Guardami (1999), Comunisti (doc, 1999), Linea di confine (doc, 2000), La rabbia (doc, 2000), Le strade di Genova (doc, 2001), Fine amore: mai (doc, 2002), I Tigi a Gibellina (doc, 2002), Mondonuovo (doc, 2003), Dopo mezzanotte (2003), Se devo essere sincera (2004), La strada di Levi (doc, 2006), Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009), Piazza Garibaldi (doc, 2012), La luna su Torino (2014), La zuppa del demonio (doc, 2014), Accademia Carrara: il museo riscoperto (doc, 2015), Sexxx (doc., 2016), Cento anni (doc., 2017), Nuovo cinema paralitico (docufilm, 2020), Blood on the Crown (2021), Boys (2021), Umberto Eco - La biblioteca del mondo (doc, 2022).

Antonio Leotti

Antonio Leotti (Rome, 1958) collaborates with Raidue. He has made several television documentaries and written the screenplays for Guido Chiesa's first three feature films.

FILMOGRAFIA

Candid Camera Show (1988), Roba da matti (1989), La raccomandazione (1991), Partigiani (co-regia, 1997).

Marco Puccioni

Marco Puccioni (Rome, 1959) worked in the United States. Afterwards, since 1993, he has been working for RAI directing commercial, documentaries and fiction films. In 1996 he joined Roberto Giannarelli and Massimo Guglielmi in creating the project Intolerance, a collective catalogue film against intolerance. In 1997 he joined Guido Chiesa, Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti, and Daniele Vicari in making the documentary Partigiani. At present he is preparing the feature film Armir.

FILMOGRAFIA

Concertino (cm, 1988), Letter #1 (1989), Letter #2 (1990), Berlin '89 (1990), The Witches Scene (1990), The Blue Fiction (mm, 1991), A Light on the Path (doc., 1992), La valle del Draa (cm, doc., 1994), Il treno delle meraviglie (cm, 1995), Ottantanni di Intolerance (cm, ep.di Intolerance, 1996), Partigiani (co-regia, doc., 1997), Sell your body, now! (cm, 1998).

Daniele Vicari

(Castel di Tora, Rieti, 1967) after film studies and a few collaborations with movie magazines, in the early 1990s began making historical-political short and medium-length movies, including Comunisti (1998), the collective project Partigiani (Partisans, 1997), and Non mi basta mai (1999), which he directed with Guido Chiesa, all presented at the Torino Film Festival. In 2002, with Velocità massima (Maximum Velocity) he participated in competition at the Venice Film Festival and won the Pasinetti Award, followed by a David di Donatello for best new director. In 2005, with L'orizzonte degli eventi he participated at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes and two years later he won another David di Donatello for his documentary Il mio paese. He next presented Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past is a Foreign Land, 2008) at the Rome Film Fest and his best-known movie Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012) at the Berlinale, winning the Panorama Audience Award. That same year, he once again won a Pasinetti Award in Venice with his documentary La nave dolce (The Human Cargo), and in 2017 he presented Sole cuore amore (Sun, Heart, Love) in Rome, winning the Silver Ribbon for legality and winning another one the next year with the TV movie Prima che la notte. In 2021, he directed Il giorno e la notte (The Day and the Night), made during the lockdown. With Andrea Porporati and Francesca Zanza, he founded the production company Kon-Tiki film and he also published a novel with Einaudi, Emanuele nella battaglia (2019).

FILMOGRAFIA

Il nuovo (cm, 1991), Mari del sud (cm, 1993), Partigiani (coregia Guido Chiesa, Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti e Marco Simon Puccioni, doc., 1997), Uomini e lupi (doc., 1998), Comunisti (doc., 1998), Bajram (doc., 1998), Non mi basta mai (coregia Guido Chiesa, doc., 1999), Sesso, marmitte e videogames (cm, doc., 1999), Morto che parla (cm, 2000), Velocità massima (2002), L’orizzonte degli eventi (2005), Il mio paese (doc.., 2006), Il mio paese 2.0 (doc., 2007), Il passato è una terra straniera (2008), Diaz - Don’t Clean Up This Blood (2012), La nave dolce (doc.., 2012), UnoNessuno (2015), Sole cuore amore (2016), Prima che la notte (tv, 2018), L’Alligatore (serie tv, 2020), Aria (serie tv, 2020), Il giorno e la notte (2021), Orlando (2022).