Giada Colagrande

Sutradara dan aktris film Italia. Colagrande lahir di Pescara, Abruzzo, Italia. Dia belajar di Italia, Swiss dan Australia, dan pada tahun 1995 dia pindah ke Roma di mana dia mulai membuat seni video dan dokumenter tentang seni kontemporer. Dari tahun 1997 hingga 2000, dia menyertai projek seni VOLUME, membuat serangkaian potret video tujuh seniman kontemporari: Jannis Kounellis, Alfredo Pirri, Bernhard Rüdiger, Nunzio, Raimund Kummer, Gianni Dessí, Maurizio Savini dan Sol LeWitt. Dia membuat tiga film pendek: “Carnaval” (1997), “Fetus – 4 membawa kematian” (1999), dan “n.3” (2000). Pada tahun 2001, ia menulis, menyutradarai, dan membintangi film fitur pertamanya, Aprimi il Cuore (Open My Heart), yang dibuka di Festival Film Venesia 2002, dan kemudian dipilih oleh banyak festival film internasional, seperti Festival Film Tribeca 2003, dalam kompetisi, dan Paris Cinéma 2003, di mana film tersebut memenangkan penghargaan Prix de l'avenir. Giada juga dinominasikan untuk Sutradara Baru Terbaik di Silver Ribbon 2003. Open my Heart dirilis di Italia oleh Lucky Red dan di AS oleh Strand Releasing. Pada tahun 2005 ia menyutradarai fitur keduanya Before it Had a Name, yang ia tulis dan bintangi bersama Willem Dafoe. Film ini dibuka di Festival Film Venesia 2005, kemudian diputar di Festival Film San Sebastian dan berbagai festival internasional lainnya. Itu didistribusikan ke seluruh dunia oleh Milenium dengan judul Black Widow. Pada tahun 2010 ia menulis dan menyutradarai fitur ketiganya, A Woman, yang dibintangi oleh Willem Dafoe dan Jess Weixler. Film ini juga ditayangkan perdana di Festival Film Venesia 2010 dan kemudian diputar di banyak festival film internasional lainnya. Pada tahun 2012, ia membuat The Woman Dress, film pendek ketiga dari serial PRADA The Miu Miu Women's Tales, dan menyelesaikan film panjang Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic, sebuah film dokumenter tentang opera yang disutradarai oleh Robert Wilson, berdasarkan biografi Marina Abramović, dibintangi oleh Willem Dafoe, Antony Hegarty dan Abramović sendiri, yang diputar di MoMA di New York dan di Museum Louvre di Paris. Kedua film tersebut ditayangkan perdana di Festival Film Venesia 2012. Pada tahun 2013 film Metode Abramovic, yang melanjutkan kolaborasinya dengan artis pertunjukan Marina Abramović, dipresentasikan di Festival Film Venesia dan kini diputar di berbagai museum di seluruh dunia. (Wikipedia)

Italian film director and actress. Colagrande was born in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She studied in Italy, Switzerland and Australia, and in 1995 she moved to Rome where she began making video art and documentaries on contemporary art. From 1997 to 2000, she joined the art project VOLUME, making a series of video portraits of seven contemporary artists: Jannis Kounellis, Alfredo Pirri, Bernhard Rüdiger, Nunzio, Raimund Kummer, Gianni Dessí, Maurizio Savini and Sol LeWitt. She made three short films: “Carnaval” (1997), “Fetus – 4 brings death” (1999), and “n.3” (2000). In 2001, she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, Aprimi il Cuore (Open My Heart), which opened at the Venice Film Festival 2002, and then was selected by many international film festivals, such as the Tribeca Film Festival 2003, in competition, and Paris Cinéma 2003, where it won the award Prix de l’avenir. Giada was also nominated for Best New Director at the Silver Ribbon 2003. Open my Heart was released in Italy by Lucky Red and in the USA by Strand Releasing. In 2005 she directed her second feature Before it Had a Name, which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Willem Dafoe. The film opened at the Venice Film Festival 2005, was then showed in San Sebastian Film Festival and various other international festivals. It was distributed worldwide by Millennium with the title Black Widow. In 2010 she wrote and directed her third feature, A Woman, starring Willem Dafoe and Jess Weixler. It also premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2010 and then screened at many other international film festivals. In 2012, she made The Woman Dress, the third short film of the PRADA series The Miu Miu Women's Tales, and completed the feature-length film Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic, a documentary on the opera directed by Robert Wilson, based on Marina Abramović’s biography, starring Willem Dafoe, Antony Hegarty and Abramović herself, which was screened at MoMA in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Both films premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2012. In 2013 the film The Abramovic Method, which continues her collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramović, was presented at the Venice Film Festival and is now being shown in various museums around the world. (Wikipedia)