Ciro Cappellari is film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter based in Berlin, Germany.
Early life and career
Born in
Buenos Aires
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, Argentina in 1959, he grew up in a small town in
Patagonia
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, Ingeniero Jacobacci. Later when he was 10 his family moved to
San Carlos de Bariloche
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.
In Europe
In 1980 Cappellari came to Europe first to Italy and then later Munich where he found work as a photo journalist with the agency Interfoto where he took portraits of public figures for newspapers in Germany and throughout Europe. He then went to Berlin in 1984 to begin his studies at the
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) is a film school in Berlin, Germany.
In the German film school ranking of FOCUS (Issue 22/2006), the dffb - together with the Academy of Media Arts Co ...
(DFFB). In 1989 Cappellari realized his first full-length film ''Amor América'' a documentary and two years later in 1991 he realized his first feature film ''Hijo del Río''. After this period he continued writing and directing several films such as ''Sin Querer –Time of the Flamingos'' (1997) and the documentary about the famous South African pianist
Abdullah Ibrahim
Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cap ...
, ''A Struggle For Love'' (2004). Through his experience in photography he also became a well known cinematographer.
Awards
Ciro has won several awards including the best European screenplay for 100 years of Cinema at the ''Sundance Film Festival'', Cinema 100 Award for ''Sin Querer, Tiempo de Flamencos'' in 1996 and in 2005 he received the
Grimme-Preis
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*''24h Buenos Aires'' (2008)
*''Bridging the Gap'' (2007)
*''Gens d’Europe - Zambeze'' (2006)
*''Audienz beim Kaiser'' (2005)
*''Welcome Home'' (2005)
*''A Struggle For Love'' (2004)
*''Sin Querer –Tiempo de flamencos'' (1996)
*''Hijo del Río'' (1991)
*''Amor América'' (1989)
T.V. movies as director
*''Sehnsucht'' (2005)
*''
Tatort
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- Endspiel'' (2002)
Director of Photography (selection)
*''Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen'' (2006)
*''Maux d’amour'' (2005)
*''Les Champions d’Olympie'' (2004)
*''The Fight'' (2004)
*''Mein Name ist Bach'' (2003)
* ''Semana Santa'' (2001)
*''Mörderinnen'' (2000)
*''El acordeón del diablo'' (2000)
*''Voyage Oriental'' (2000)
*''Giora Feidmann Porträt'' (2000)
*''Last Minute Casbah'' (1999)
*''Aprilkinder'' (1997)
*''Vampsida'' (1997)
*''Magic Matterhorn'' (1995)
*''Indians Never die''(1995)
*''Marmor, Stein und Eisen'' (1994)
*''Die Bettkönnigin'' (1994)
*''Joe et Marie'' (1994)
*''Surabaya Jonny'' (1993)
*''Cripple to be Free'' (1993)
*''Am Ende der Nacht'' (1992)
*''Vaterland'' (1992)
*''
Schwarzfahrer
''Schwarzfahrer'' (also known as ''Black Rider'') is a 1993 German 12-minute short film directed by . It won an Oscar in 1994 for Best Short Subject. The topic of the film is the daily racism a black man endures in a tram. The title is a word-pla ...
'' (1992)
*''Die blaue Stunde'' (1992)
*''Hinter verschlossenen Türen'' (1992)
*''Praktisch und Friedlich'' (1992)
*''Georgette Meunier'' (1988)
*''Der Pannwitz-Blick'' (1987)
*''WalkWoman'' (1987)
*''Habibi - ein Liebesbrief'' (1985)
*''Nihil- oder alle Zeit der Welt'' (1985)