Name Ciro Cappellari | Role Film director | |
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Movies Black Rider, The Blue Hour, House of the Sleeping, Semana santa, Francesco und der Papst Similar People Pepe Danquart, Vadim Glowna, Norman Briski, Osvaldo Bayer, Stefan Schwietert | ||
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Ciro Cappellari is film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter based in Berlin, Germany.
Contents
- Invitado ciro cappellari cineasta alemania con acento
- Ciro cappellari hijo del rio 1991
- Early life and career
- In Europe
- Awards
- Writerdirector selection
- TV movies as director
- Director of Photography selection
- References
Ciro cappellari hijo del rio 1991
Early life and career
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959, he grew up in a small town in Patagonia, Ingeniero Jacobacci. Later when he was 10 his family moved to San Carlos de Bariloche.
In Europe
In 1980 Cappellari came to Europe first to Italy and then later Munich where he found work as a photo journalist with the agency Interfoto where he took portraits of public figures for newspapers in Germany and throughout Europe. He then went to Berlin in 1984 to begin his studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin(DFFB). In 1989 Cappellari realized his first full-length film Amor América a documentary and two years later in 1991 he realized his first feature film Hijo del Río. After this period he continued writing and directing several films such as Sin Querer –Time of the Flamingos (1997) and the documentary about the famous South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, A Struggle For Love (2004). Through his experience in photography he also became a well known cinematographer.
Awards
Ciro has won several awards including the best European screenplay for 100 years of Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival, Cinema 100 Award for Sin Querer, Tiempo de Flamencos in 1996 and in 2005 he received the Grimme-Preis in Germany for directing, and cinematography for A Struggle For Love. Films that Cappellari was involved in as director of photography also won several prizes including: Die Blaue Stunde, the Max Opühls Prize in 1992, Schwarzfahrer which won the short film Oscar in 1994 and Mein name ist Bach, the best Swiss film in 2007.