Michele Conforti
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Biography
Michele Conforti is an Italian filmmaker and television director. He studied architecture in the earlt 70s and then went on to study film at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome under the pedagogical direction of Roberto Rossellini. Conforti was a fellow student of Ellis Donda - they both graduated from Centro Sperimentale in 1974 - and helped Donda producing the short films Engel und Puppe and Come cinema. From 1989 to 1994 he served as a member, by ministerial appointment, of the Film Credit Committee, representing filmmakers organizations. From 1994 to 1996 he was president of the National Association of Cinematographic Authors (ANAC). From 2002 to 2010 he served as secretary general of the Associazione Registi della Fiction televisiva (ART). From 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Cinecittà Holding spa and a board member of Cinecittà Studios spa upon ministerial designation and appointment. In April 2013, he was appointed by the SIAE Supervisory Board as a member of the association's Cinema Commission. From 2010 to June 2017 he was a member, as an independent director, of the Board of Directors of Cinecittà Digital Factory. He is a member of the David di Donatello and EFA (European Film Academy) jury.
Known For
The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the birth of the Italian Communist Party (PCd'I), Gramsci's visits to Moscow where he met his future spouse, his election to Parliament, anti-fascism, trial and conviction.
Vita di Antonio Gramsci
A TV programme presented by Sergio Zavoli, broadcast by the Italian public TV channel Rai 2, about Italy during the Years of Lead, with movies, interviews with some protagonists of the period and final discussion.
La notte della Repubblica
Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.
Rome, November 12, 1994
Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rossella Or (soon to become an avant-garde theatre actress).
Engel und Puppe
A film by Ellis Donda.