Marco Ponti
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Marco Ponti (born 25 July 1967 in Avigliana, Val di Susa, Italy) is a prominent Italian film director, whose work includes strange characters who move in a world more like a comic book than a movie screen, in elliptical conversations.
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[edit] Biography
He graduated in Modern Letters at the University of Turin and started working as a copywriter. After two years he worked as an assistent at the Faculty of Semiotics at the University of Turin. In 1995 he attended a script writing course the Holden School in Turin; the following year he worked at the same place under the direction of Alessandro Baricco. In 1997 he attended a course for movie writers at the RAI Cinema Fiction School; in the same year he published a book dedicated to Quentin Tarantino.
He wrote a sitcom for RadioRai and four pieces for the Gruppo della Rocca di Torino’s theatre. He wrote and interpreted various short features like Amsterdam (1999) and another that won an award for the best short feature and for the best breaktrough actor of the year at the Saint Vincent Festival (1993); he won another award with his first movie Santa Maradona (2002) .
[edit] Filmography
- Santa Maradona (2001)
- A/R Andata e Ritorno (2004)
[edit] Scripts
- Benvenuto in San Salvario (1998)
- Kissing Paul Newman (2001)
- Se fossi in te (2001)
- Playgirl (2002)
- L’uomo perfetto (2005)
- Cardiofitness (2007)
[edit] Short features
- Amsterdam (1999)
