Donatella Baglivo

Director, producer and film editing expert. At 18 years old make her debut as editor for first feature length movie. After editing works for RAI programs, she founded CIAK STUDIO at 19, becoming the youngest female entrepreneur in italian cinema. Donatella Baglivo began her intense activity in RAI and privates, editing for documentaries, surveys, advertsing and teleplay. Many works includes: “La città del sole” (1973) directed by Gianni Amelio, a TV special about director Theodoros Anghelopulos (1979) (awarded at 50th Venice Film Festival) and another one about Eugène Ionesco. In 1981 she goes in America for nine movie about Hollywood Star System: James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, etc. As director in 1982 makes a trilogy about Andrei Tarkovskij (competitor at 37th Cannes Film Festival) also presented in 1984 at Harvard University of Cambridge (USA). In 1995, for centenary of cinema, Donatella begins to work for “I GRANDI DEL CINEMA ITALIANO”, a biographic series project which are completed 50 titles of 100 expected (as 2016).In 2011 she receives Honoris Causa degree from Lviv National Academy of Arts in Ukraine. From 2015 director Donatella amplifies her activites on cultural and social disciplines in Italian and foreign countries, including researches, studies and education for young students around the world and a cinema museum dedicated to Andrey Tarkovskij in “Spazio Cinema Alfredo Bini”, located at Montalto di Castro (VT).

In 2017 she directed “Il futuro in una poesia” produced in association with Zeroconfini Onlus and Antonica s.r.l.

THE STARS OF ITALIAN CINEMA

Directors, actors and actresses, but also the technicians that made history of Italian cinema great.

The very first audiovisual encyclopedia of Italian Cinema, conceived, realized and directed by Donatella Baglivo.

Manv years of very hard work hale elapsed since Donatella Baglivo conceived the idea for this series: to create the very first authentic audiovisual encyclopedia of Italian cinema. For its scope and completeness it is a unique piece of work meant to be a passionate tale on Italian cinema narrated directly by stars of the screen and their relatives acquaintances and collaborators. These talents with their professional and above all human experiences, are the subject and the object of these monographs. Excerpts from classics and less known works, photographs, new reportages and interviews enrich each biography helping to filter the myth and to recover the humanitv hidden behind the stardust. This gives us a chance to discover the “real” people, their lives, and careers, as well as reasons behind their personal and professional choices.

Each biographv contains, where possible, an interview with the talent. Questions are designed to discover everv aspect of their life and career, so as to unveil the causes their existential choices. Starting from their family background, we witness their first steps in show business through to lame. Archive footages are inserted in the form of notes and digressions to enrich this material. The smooth transition from images to interviews and the clever editing are such as not to require a narrating voice; there results the unique and fascinating structure of these monographs. At times the effect may be harsh, at others strongly emotional, but always filtered by the ironic gentleness of the author, which is her distinguishing trademark.