Corrado Farina(1939-2016)
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Corrado Farina's first fiction film was an 8mm short he wrote, directed
and starred in when he was 20 years old. He went on to direct around 20
such films, spanning such genres as horror, SF, war, comedy and drama.
After graduating in law, he was hired as a copywriter in the
advertising agency Armando Testa. There, he quickly started to direct
his own commercials. After a few years he quit and moved to Rome where
he started directing documentaries and started pitching ideas for
movies. Besides his two feature films, he directed countless
documentaries and commercials. In 1994 he published his first novel, a
movie-related mystery titled "Un posto al buio" (A Place in the Dark).
More novels followed: "Giallo antico" (An Ancient Mystery, 1999),
"Storia di sesso e di fumetto" (A Tale of Sex and Comics, 2001),
"Dissolvenza incrociata" (Cross Fade, 2002), "Il calzolaio" (The
Shoemaker, 2004), "Il cielo sopra Torino" (The Sky Above Torino, 2006).
Both "Giallo antico" and "Dissolvenza incrociata" have a movie theme:
the first one connects the shooting of "Cabiria" (1914) with the death
of Italian novelist Emilio Salgari, and the second takes place in Turin
in the Fifties, during the shoot of a swashbuckling film. In February
2006, he created and co-directed with Alberto Farina a montage documentary
called "Motore!" designed to be shown in Turin's "Museo del cinema"
during the Winter Olympic Games.
