Ciro Cappellari

Ciro Cappellari is film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter based in Berlin, Germany.

Early life and career

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1959, he grew up in a small town in Patagonia, Ingeniero Jacobacci. Later when he was 10 his family moved to San Carlos de Bariloche. At 17 he became a photo journalist for the local newspaper and in the same year he left for Buenos Aires to register as a student with El Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía. His plans to study were prevented because of the military dictatorship then in power that was repressing intellectuals, students, and workers associated with the leftist movement. Cappellari had attempted to start the student organization (UES) in his hometown and his father Antonio Alberto Cappellari, was persecuted for implementing a socialist medical health plan in southern Argentina. As a result, he went back to San Carlos de Bariloche and began to work as a photo journalist once more in order to emigrate to Europe and begin his film studies there.

In Europe

In 1980 Cappellari came to Europe first to Italy and then later Munich where he found work as a photo journalist with the agency Interfoto where he took portraits of public figures for newspapers in Germany and throughout Europe. He then went to Berlin in 1984 to begin his studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin(DFFB). In 1989 Cappellari realized his first full-length film Amor América a documentary and two years later in 1991 he realized his first feature film Hijo del Río. After this period he continued writing and directing several films such as Sin Querer –Time of the Flamingos (1997) and the documentary about the famous South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, A Struggle For Love (2004). Through his experience in photography he also became a well known cinematographer.

Awards

Ciro has won several awards including the best European screenplay for 100 years of Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival, Cinema 100 Award for Sin Querer, Tiempo de Flamencos in 1996 and in 2005 he received the Grimme-Preis in Germany for directing, and cinematography for A Struggle For Love. Films that Cappellari was involved in as director of photography also won several prizes including: Die Blaue Stunde, the Max Opühls Prize in 1992, Schwarzfahrer which won the short film Oscar in 1994 and Mein name ist Bach, the best Swiss film in 2007.

Filmography

Writer/director (selection)

T.V. movies as director

Director of Photography (selection)

References

  1. ↑ Ingram, Susan (2012). World Film Locations: Berlin. Intellect Books. p. 89. ISBN 9781841506319. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Halbertsma, Marlite (2011). The Heritage Theatre: Globalisation and Cultural Heritage. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 9781443830782. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Aguilar, Gonzalo (2011). New Argentine Film: Other Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 219. ISBN 9780230119420. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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