Biography

Coming from three generations of film and tv makers Carola learned her film theory while growing up in Rome. She moved to New York City to start her voyage as a filmmaker. After completing film studies at Brooklyn College in 1993 she has worked as camera assistant and cinematographer. Since 1992 Carola has directed several short films and a music video in New York and Roma. Her films have been shown at various international film festivals as well as screening series in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Roma, Milan, Berlin, London, Paris, Bombay and Hong Kong. With "Neighbors" she won the award for Best Upcoming Filmmaker at the Salerno Int'l Film festival in 1996. Her short films have been broadcasted on Channel 4 (U.K.), Tele+1 and Canale 5 (Italy),RTSI (Switzerland) and few cable channels in the U.S. "Freddy and Victor blind date" has been also shown at the John Weber gallery (N.Y.C.), the ICA Museum (Boston), the Chisenhale gallery (London) and in the Orestecinema program at the Venice Art Biennale in 1999.Carola gave a lecture at New York University on "Personal filmmaking toward an experimental fiction"in 1998.
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Born in Rome, moved to New York City in 1990 to start her voyage as a filmmaker. Since completing Film studies at Brooklyn College in 1993 she has worked as camera assistant in numerous American independent feature productions and as cinematographer in a few short works. Since 1992 Carola has directed a feature film, two documentaries, six short films and two music videos in New York and Rome. Her films have been shown in various international film festivals as well as in screening series and art galleries from New York, Seattle, Rome, Berlin to Paris and Bombay. With _Neighbors (1996)_ won the award for "Best Film by an emerging filmmaker" at the Salerno Int'l Film Festival of 1996. The short film was distributed and broadcast on Channel 4 (U.K.), Tele+1 and Canale 5 (Italy), RTSI (Switzerland). _Freddy & Victor blind date (1997)_ was also broadcast on Canale 5 in 1999. In 1996 she co-founded Open Cine, a not for profit organization which helds public screenings of classic Italian films and b-movies in New York. Open Cine has been supported by the Italian Institute of Culture, the Goldfarb Foundation, the City park and recreation of N.Y. From 1997 to '98 she wrote freelance for the daily Italian newspaper "Il Manifesto" and "the Independent Film & Video", an American monthly publication. In November '98 Carola gave a lecture at the New York University," From shorts to feature length films, exploring fiction", focusing on experimental filmmaking. In November '99 she participated at the Batik International Film Festival in Perugia as a guest speaker at the forum "Cinema and Freedom, an international meeting". Also in 1999 she was invited to screen "Freddy & Victor" at a filmmakers and activists symposium at the Venice Art Biennale for the Orestecinema project, dAPERTutto section. In April 2001 Carola completed the documentary 'Arthur Penn: The Work' produced by il Teatro di Roma and Tele+ cable TV. In June 2001 the music video 'Symphonies Of Memories was shown at the first Bienale de Valencia 2001 in the videoROM section and broadcast on MTV Italy in the same period. In July 2001 she shot and directed along with other 32 Italian directors the week of international g8 meetings and protests in Genoa for the collective film "A Different World Is Possible". In November 2001 her feature film _Giravolte (2000)_ was selected for international competition at the Torino Int'l Film Festival and in February 2002 screened at the Berlinale, in the International Forum of New Cinema.
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