Biography

Journalist/screenwriter.

For at least three decades, she followed the film festivals of Cannes, Venice, Berlin, London, Marrakesh and others, conducting interviews with Italian directors including Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, Ermanno Olmi, Giuseppe Bertolucci and Nanni Moretti, as well as younger filmmakers - many of whom her friends - and international stars such as Sean Connery and Roman Polanski. With the latter, she was to work on a script shortly before the incident in which Sharon Tate was murdered.

From 1975 to 1978, she worked on the script for Tinto Brass's Saloon Kitty, the scripts for three of the five entries into the Black Emanuelle series directed by Joe D'Amato, and the script to Sturmtruppen, a film adaptation of the homonymous comic book series by Bonvi.

As a sort of rebellion, Fusco went to London and, in 1972, began her career in film co-scripting Bluebeard - the first of a number of initially mostly erotic films that she wrote or co-wrote.

Maria Pia Fusco reported as a journalist for "La Repubblica" on contemporary cinema and conducted interviews with many famous Italian and international directors and actors, including a 1998 behind-the-scenes reportage on Stanley Kubrick. According to Anna Bandettini, it was her masterpiece, representing her way of reporting on cinema not in an abstract way, but on its stories and lives.