Francesco Brunacci
- Director
- Writer
He studied Drama at the 'Accademia di Arte Drammatica Antoniano' of
Bologna - where he graduated playing Konstantin Gavrilovilovich
Treplyov in the Anton Chekov 'The Seagull', then modern dance in Anna
Sagna's school di Turin and "clounerie" with famous clown teacher
Pierre Byland. He worked twice with Pupi Avati in 'Una gita scolastica'
and 'Regalo di Natale'. Graduated in 1984 in History of Cinema in
Bologna with a thesis on Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard', he started
to work as journalist at the Roman newspaper "La Repubblica" and became
TV author for daily and weekly magazines as 'Anteprima', 'Matricole"
and "Mitico', all connected to Italian Cinema world, Art and Music
where - among the others - he portrayed Cesaria Evora, Bill T. Jones,
Ken Follet, Italian writer Fernanda Pivano. In 1996 he shot the
documentary 'Celluloide. Immagini allo specchio' (Celluloide. Specular
Images) a sort of continuos immersion on fictional and real dimensions
during the shooting of Carlo Lizzani's 'Celluloide', the film based on
the difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città
aperta (1946)' . After having moved to Paris in 1997, he started to
direct documentaries on cinema, 'Fellini per sempre' (Fellini for Ever)
and 'Etrange Etrangère', on Romy Schneieder carrier and life, this one
written and directed with the French director and journalist Anne
Andreu. Among his other French experiences, he signed many reportages
on actors and directors in TV programs "Absolument Cinèma" and
"Cinèbus". He came back to Italy in 2004 where he connected his
multi-talented experience with Fashion World then became contributor at
Italian Vogue magazine, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller. His documentary on
Fashion Designer Elio Fiorucci was produced by Super Studio TV.
