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Elisa Fuksas

Elisa Fuksas

Italian film director and writer

Elisa Fuksas (born 1981) is an Italian film director and writer.

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Career

Born in Rome in 1981, she is the daughter of Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas and his second wife Doriana Mandrelli.[1][2][3] Her early short film Please Leave a Message was awarded with the Nastro d'Argento in 2007.[4][5] Fuksas debuted with a feature film in 2012 with Nina, starring Luca Marinelli and Diane Fleri.[6] In 2019, she directed the Netflix original film The App.[7] In 2021, her documetary Senza fine, about the life and career of Italian singer Ornella Vanoni, premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in the "Giornate degli Autori" panel.[8]

Filmography

  • Please Leave a Message – short film (2007)
  • L'Italia del nostro scontento – documentary (2009)
  • Nina (2012)
  • Chinese Honeymoon – documentary (2015)
  • Albe: A Life Beyond Earth – documentary (2018)
  • The App (2019)
  • iSola – documentary (2020)
  • Senza fine – documentary (2021)

Works

  • La figlia di (Rizzoli, 2014)
  • Michele, Anna e la termodinamica (Elliot, 2017)
  • Ama e fai quello che vuoi (Marsilio, 2020)
  • Non fiori ma opere di bene (Marsilio, 2022)

References

  1. [1]
    "Elisa Fuksas". Huffington Post.
  2. [2]
    Raffaele Panizza (18 April 2013). "Elisa Fuksas: "Grazie, papà, ora faccio da me"". Panorama (in Italian). Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  3. [3]
    "Elisa Fuksas: il battesimo, la mia prima rivendicazione di autonomia". L'Osservatore Romano (in Italian). 24 October 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  4. [4]
    "Nastri d'Argento corti a Fuksas e Rovere". Cinecittà News. 17 December 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  5. [5]
    "Il cortometraggio per Elisa Fuksas, un posto ideale per essere coraggiosi". HuffPost (in Italian). 2 February 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  6. [6]
    "Arriva "Nina", l'esordio alla regia di Elisa Fuksas". Huffington Post (in Italian). 17 April 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  7. [7]
    "Passioni virtuali e solitudini in «The App», il film nato dall'opera". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  8. [8]
    "Venezia 78, un party «Senza Fine». Una festa per celebrare il film su e con Ornella Vanoni diretto da Elisa Fuksas". Vanity Fair (in Italian). 11 September 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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