Gianfranco Mingozzi
                        (director)

Gianfranco Mingozzi , born in Bologna, Italy.
Graduate in Jurisprudence.In Rome he graduates by the  C.S.C.
(Centre of Cinematography) and he has worked as first assistant  of Federico Fellini.
In the Year I964  he does co-operate with the "Office National du Film (N.F.B.) du Canada .
Screenplay writer and author of  a lot social ethnological documentaries.

Available Documentaries&art film

1."Gli uomini e i tori",1959
   "Festa a Pamplona, 1959
The 7th of July, the San Fermin day in Pamplona

2. "La taranta", 1962
The first documentary about trance in southern of Italy
Prix Marzocco D'Oro at the Florence Film Festival
Oberhausen Film festival, Germany
Tours Film Festival, France
Oscar nomination 1963

3. "Via dei Piopponi",1962
The City of Ferrara: the renaissance buildings
Locarno Film Festival '62

4. "Il putto", 1963
One example of Baroque sculpture in Florence
Bergamo Film Festival, Italy, '63

5. "Li mali mestieri", 1963
A strange Jobs in Palermo, Sicily
Cannes Film Festival

6. "Le finestre", 1963
Portrait of a young thief, from a window
Film Festival Mannheim, '63

7. "Il sole che muore", 1964
Caughnawaga, the last indian communities in Northern America
Berlin Film Festival 1964

8. "Al nostro sonno inquieto", 1964
Dreams, anxieties and neurosis
Special Jury Prix Festival Mannheim, '65

9. "Con il cuore fermo: Sicilia", 1965
The first documentary about the Mafia in Sicily
Golden Lion, Venice '65
Prix Simone Dubrheuil at Mannheim Film Festival
London Film Festival
San Francisco Film Festival
Oscar Nomination 1966

10. "Per un corpo assente", 1968
A portrait of a painter, in memory of the death of his brother

11. "Corpi"
Short fiction Film about youth, drug, aids and homosexual in Rome


All films are in Beta SP Format, in original language (Italian) without subtitles.
Mail to:  landcesa@tin.it
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