Matteo Garrone
| Matteo Garrone | |
|---|---|
 Matteo Garrone in Castiglioncello on June 21, 2008 | |
| Born |
15 October 1968 Rome |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Film director and producer |
| Known for | Gomorrah |
Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. 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 film Reality competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival[1][2] and won the Grand Prix.[3]
His latest film Tale of Tales was 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
- 1996 – Terra di mezzo
- 1998 – Guests (Ospiti)
- 2000 – Roman Summer (Estate romana)
- 2002 – The Embalmer (L'imbalsamatore)
- 2003 – First Love (Primo amore)
- 2008 – Gomorrah (Gomorra)
- 2012 – Reality
- 2015 – Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti)
Producer
- Silhouette (1996)
- Terra di mezzo (1996)
- Ospiti (1998)
- Estate romana (2000)
- Mid-August Lunch (2008)
References
- ↑ "2012 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ↑ "Cannes Film Festival 2012 line-up announced". timeout. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
- ↑ "Awards 2012". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ↑ "2015 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
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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