Lorenza Mazzetti

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Lorenza Mazzetti (born 1928 in Florence, Italy) is the author of Il Cielo Cade (The Sky Falls) published in 1961 and based on her tragic childhood. She was orphaned at a very young age and brought up by her aunt and uncle, along with their two daughters. On 3 August 1944, the SS killed her aunt and two cousins. Her uncle committed suicide a year later.

In the early 1950s, Mazzetti moved to London where she studied at the Slade School of Art. On the strength of a short film she made at Slade, the British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund awarded her the opportunity to make Together, a film about two deaf-mutes in the East End of London. After being screened as part of the first Free cinema screening alongside Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson's Momma Don't Allow and Lindsay Anderson's O Dreamland in February 1956 at the National Film Theatre, all three went on to be screened at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.