Rosa Colosimo (born 25 June 1949 in
Tropea, Italy) is an Australian film producer.
Career
Colosimo was born in
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Italy, and moved to
Melbourne,
Australia
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with her family in 1951, where her parents ran a greengrocer's shop. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne University along with a Diploma of Education and began teaching Italian. She owned the only Italian book shop in the Southern hemisphere and became quite successful.
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Colosimo became involved in the film industry by distributing Italian films for Australia in the early 80s before turning producer.[Stratton p. 89]
She was one of the most prolific film producers in Australia in the late 80s despite a lack of support from the funding bodies - all of her movies were made with private money. She was accused of using Mafia money on by someone on the board of Film Victoria
VicScreen, formerly known as Film Victoria, is the Victoria State Government, Victorian Government’s creative and economic screen development agency. They function behind the scenes, supporting professionals, infrastructure, projects and ev ...
, which Colosimo denied.[Bob Evans, "OUR PIECE OF THE ACTION", ''The Australian Financial Review'', 18 October 1001 p. 33]
Most of her movies concerned the Italian Australian community in Melbourne. Colosimo:
Producing is constantly stimulating. One of the most satisfying things about it is that while it is demanding, exhausting and tedious, it is ultimately achievable. I really do get excited by the potential of a story or a script. A project constantly shifts for me. I never get bored. It suits me to be in a work environment which is very intense and then to have space for myself in between.
Select credits
*''The Martini Family'' (1979) (short) - producer
*''Moving Out'' (1982) - production consultant
*''Waterfront'' (1983) (mini series) - production consultant
*''The Still Point
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Th ...
'' (1986) - producer, writer
*''Options'' (1986) (documentary) - producer, writer
*''The Top Half'' (1986) (short) - writer, director
*''Sons of Bitches'' (1987) (docudrama)
*'' Hungry Heart'' (1987) - producer
*''Blowing Hot and Cold
''Blowing Hot and Cold'' is a 1989 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Marc Gracie and starring Joe Dolce and Peter Adams. The plot is about an Italian who befriends a garage owner whose daughter has run off with a drug dealer.
Premise
Two ...
'' (1988) - producer, co-writer
*''Damned Whores and Evil Bitches'' (1988) (documentary) - director, producer, writer
*''Postcards from Italy'' (1989) (documentary) - producer, writer
*'' A Sting in the Tale'' (1989) - producer
*''Closer and Closer Apart
''Closer and Closer Apart'' is a 1989 Australian film set in the Italian community of Melbourne. The story concerns a quarter of working-class people in their twenties.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film ...
'' (1989) - producer
*'' Jigsaw'' (1989) - producer
*''A Kink in the Picasso
''A Kink in the Picasso'' is a 1990 Australian film directed by Marc Gracie and written by Hugh Stuckey. It was filmed in Melbourne from October to November 1989.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 19 ...
'' (1990) - executive producer
*''Postcards from Italy'' (1990) (documentary) - producer, writer
*'' On My Own'' (1991) - executive producer
*''Merchant of Dreams'' (1994) (documentary) - producer, writer
*''The India Connection'' (1995) (documentary) - producer, writer
*''Words Into Action'' (1995) (documentary) - producer, writer
*''OllieRom'' (1997) (CD-ROM) - consultant
*''Ninja Penguins'' (2000) (internet) - executive producer
*''Ineractive Flesh'' (2000) (internet) - executive producer
*''WOW/NOW'' (2000) (internet) - executive producer
Unmade projects
*''Daniel in the Lions' Den Discovers Among the Aboriginies in Terra Australia Only Sons of Bitches Can Save the World'' - from a script by Colleen McCulloughRussell Crowe
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from Colosimo's own script[Kevin Sadlier, "REEL FACTS", ''Sun Herald'', 20 December 1992 p 93]
*''The Von Kessell Dossier'' (circa 1992)
References
Further reading
*Stratton, David, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p89
External links
*
Winding Road Entertainment
(her current company]
Rosa Colosimo credits
at Screen Australia
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Australian film producers
Living people
1949 births