Tonino De Bernardi

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Tonino De Bernardi (born 24 August 1937) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career[edit]

Born in Chivasso near Turin, after graduating in literature with Massimo Mila, with a thesis on neoclassical Stravinsky, Tonino De Bernardi joined the Cooperativa Cinema Indipendente Italiano in 1967, based first in Naples and then in Rome. In Turin he collaborated with Paolo Menzio ("Il mostro verde", 16mm, in competition at Knokke-le-Zoute 1967–68, EXPRMNTL, Experimental Film Festival) and Pia Epremian De Silvestris (De Bernardi acted, together with Mariella Navale, in "Medea" and other films of hers, and Pia, in turn, appears in De Bernardi's works). In Rome, the Cooperative's films were often screened at festivals organized at the Filmstudio '70 (from March 1968). Among others, Giorgio Turi, Adamo Vergine, Alfredo Leonardi, Gianfranco Baruchello, Massimo Bacigalupo - who was to become a fundamental friend of Tonino and Mariella - Luca Patella, Piero Bargellini, Guido Lombardi and Anna Lajolo took part in the Cooperative.

Awards[edit]

• Venice International Film Festival, Nomination Best Film Premio Orizzonti, Medea Miracle, 2007
• Venice International Film Festival, Nomination Golden Lion, Appassionate, 1999
• Taormina Film Fest, Mención Especial, Piccoli orrori, 1994
• Taormina Film Fest, Nomination Golden Charybdis, Piccoli orrori, 1994
• Torino Film Festival, Nomination Best Italian Fiction Film, Uccelli mendichi, uccelli d'amore, uccelli perduti, 1993
• Torino Film Festival, Nomination Best Italian Film, Leçons de ténèbres n. 2 e 3, 1991
• World Wide Video Festival, La Haya, First Prize (ex-aequo with Jean-Luc Godard), 1989
• Torino Film Festival, Nomination Best Feature Film, Elettra, 1987

Bibliography[edit]

• Anthony Cristiano, Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema-Legacies and Transformations Into the Twenty-First Century, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, ISBN 9781474474054
• Andrea Mariani, Denis Lotti, Diego Cavallotti, Scrivere la storia, costruire l’archivio-Note per una storiografia del cinema e dei media, Meltemi, 2021, ISBN 9788855194167
• Angela Bianca Saponari, Federico Zecca, Oltre l’inetto-Rappresentazioni plurali della mascolinità nel cinema italiano, Meltemi, 2021, ISBN 9788855195270
• Sergio Toffetti, Stefano Francia di Celle, Dalle lontane province. Il cinema di Tonino De Bernardi, Lindau, 1995, ISBN 9788871801278

External links[edit]

• Interview: Tonino De Bernardi: “Mia madre faceva la sarta e come lei io cucio i film”, Repubblica (February 2022) (Italian)
• Rétrospective: à Pompidou, Tonino De Bernardi, cinéaste et poète retrouvé, Le Monde (January 2022) (French)
• Interview: De Bernardi, filmare tutto è un atto di amore e amicizia, Il Manifesto (20 January 2022) (Italian)
• Interview: Tonino De Bernardi «Mi cine nace de la amistad, no del dinero», Revista Mutaciones (5 July 2018) (Spanish)