Docente Mariangela Barbanente

Mariangela Barbanente

Filmmaker and screenwriter. She started working in Documentary as production assistant and assistant director with the company Les Films d’Ici (France). Assistant director and second camera in Di Costanzo’s documentaries Prove di Stato (1998) and A scuola (2003), in 2000 she completed her first documentary, “Sole”, which received several awards such as a special mention at the Turin Film Festival the same year and it has been shown on TV in 15 countries. In 2005 she shot the docu-series “Il trasloco del bar di Vezio” broadcasted on the cable channel Planet. In 2006 she collaborated on the screenplay of “The Orchestra Of Piazza Vittorio” by Agostino Ferrente. In 2011, her documentary “Ferrhotel” received the prize UCCA–100 Città at the Turin Film Festival 2011 and the Amnesty International Award at Pesaro Film Festival. In 2013 she co-authored “In Viaggio Con Cecilia” with the Italian famed documentary director dean Cecilia Mangini and in 2015 “Varichina” co-directed with Antonio Palumbo which has been nominated for the Nastri d’Argento 2016. She was the first woman to be president of Doc/it – Documentaristi Italiani (2011-13).