Matteo Garrone
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(1968-10-15) 15 October 1968
Rome |
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Italian |
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Film director and producer |
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Gomorrah |
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Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian film maker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long film Terra di Mezzo in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah. His latest film Reality competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival[1][2] and won the Grand Prix.[3]
His upcoming film The Tale of Tales has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[4]
Filmography
Director
Short films
- Silhouette (1996)
- Bienvenido espirito santo (1997)
- Un caso di forza maggiore (1997)
- Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni (1998)
Feature films
Producer
- Silhouette (1996)
- Terra di mezzo (1996)
- Ospiti (1998)
- Estate romana (2000)
- Mid-August Lunch (2008)
References
Bibliography
- Pierpaolo De Sanctis, Domenico Monetti, Luca Pallanch. "Non solo Gomorra. Tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone", Rome, Edizioni Sabinae, 2008.
- Luciana d'Arcangeli. "The Films of Matteo Garrone: Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed" in William Hope (ed) "Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium". Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 175–187.
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