Barbara Cupisti used to be an Italian television and film actress who is well known outside of her native country by Horror fans. They will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi.
Since 2002 she started to direct. Her first Documentary movie Mothers (90 min), showned in Venice Film Festival 2007, won the David di Donatello 2008 for Best Documentary of the year.
Her newest documentary, Forbidden Childhood, was screening the festival circuit and has received the Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film at the Bahrein International Human Rights Film Festival (May 2009) and the Amnesty International Cinema and Human Rights Award at the Pesaro International Film Festival for the New Cinema (June 2009). Unicef Italia gave to this movie the High Patronage.
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Barbara Cupisti at the Internet Movie Database
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