Name Davide Ferrario Role Film director | Books Black Magic | |
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Born 26 June 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-06-26 ) Casalmaggiore, Cremona Occupation Italian film director, screenwriter and author Nominations David di Donatello for Best Screenplay Movies After Midnight, Guardami, La zuppa del demonio, Freedom, We All Fall Down Similar People Elisabetta Cavallotti, Walter Leonardi, Fabio Troiano, Stefania Orsola Garello, Giorgio Pasotti | ||
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Davide Ferrario (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author.
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Life and career
Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio. He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum, and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
After collaborating to several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali, and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir La fine della notte. His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award. Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film, Fade to Black by Oliver Parker.