Emanuele Crialese

Emanuele Crialese (born 1965 in Rome ) is an Italian screenwriter and film director.

Crialese went in 1991 in the United States and studied in New York at the Tish School of the Arts Film Directing. Here he turned the 1994 short film Heartless and 1997, the feature film Once we were strangers.

He then retired for six months on the location south of Sicily island of Lampedusa. A legend that is told there, inspired him in 2002 for his film Lampedusa.

In his film Golden Door, which had its premiere in 2006, is Crialese dealt with the issue of emigration of impoverished Sicilians to America in the early 20th century.

2011 Crialese participated in Terraferma with the Italian refugee policy and filmed the life of a woman from sub-Saharan Africa, which is stranded on their way to the European mainland to the island of Lampedusa.

Filmography

Awards

For his films Crialese has been awarded 18 international film awards. These include, inter alia,

• 2002: International Film Festival of Cannes in 2002 for Lampedusa ( two awards )
• 2006: International Film Festival of Venice in 2006 for Golden Door, ( six awards )
• 2011: International Film Festival of Venice 2011 for Terraferma ( Special Jury Prize )