Adriana Monti

Adriana Monti
Born 1951
Italy
Occupation Film director and screenwriter
Years active late 1970s – present

Adriana Monti (born 1951) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.[1] She is known for making feminist films.[2] Her films include Sculoa senza fine (1983), Fino a catena (1986) and Gentili signore (1989).

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Biography

Adriana Monti was born in 1951 and has been making independent feminist films since the late 1970s.[3] Much of her filmmaking is collaborative. She began her career in the context of a larger feminist movement in Italy of the 1970s.[3] For her 1983 film Sculoa senza fine (School without End), she put together a group of amateur women to make the film.[3] The group of former housewives had completed a 150 hour secondary school diploma course in 1976 and did not want to stop learning after it ended.[4] With the help of their teacher, they formed a study and research group. Monti shot the film about them from 1979–1981, with the first half of it being made collectively by the group. It was completed in 1983.[4]

In 1986, Monti made a documentary called Fino a catena about the conditions of female textile workers.[3]

Filmography

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References

  1. ^ Kuhn, Annette; Radstone, Susannah (1994). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. p. 223. ISBN 0-520-08879-4. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pjqOM04aGJ8C&pg=PA223. 
  2. ^ Moliterno, Gino (2000). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. CRC Press. p. 317. ISBN 0-415-14584-8. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6vVS_Y1mcIEC&pg=PA318. 
  3. ^ a b c d Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (1995). Women Film Directors: An International Bio-critical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-313-28972-7. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-kJHa7KqnQ4C&pg=PA268. 
  4. ^ a b Monti, Adriana (1988). "Introduction to the script of the film Scuola senza fine". In Bruno, Giuliana; Nadotti, Maria. Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy. Taylor & Francis. pp. 80–82. ISBN 0-415-00857-3. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mCsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA82. 

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