Francesco Brunacci

He studied Drama at the 'Accademia di Arte Drammatica Antoniano' of Bologna - where he graduated playing Konstantin Gavrilovilovich Treplyov in the Anton Chekov 'The Seagull', then modern dance in Anna Sagna's school di Turin and "clounerie" with famous clown teacher Pierre Byland. He worked twice with Pupi Avati in 'Una gita scolastica' and 'Regalo di Natale'. Graduated in 1984 in History of Cinema in Bologna with a thesis on Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard', he started to work as journalist at the Roman newspaper "La Repubblica" and became TV author for daily and weekly magazines as 'Anteprima', 'Matricole" and "Mitico', all connected to Italian Cinema world, Art and Music where - among the others - he portrayed Cesaria Evora, Bill T. Jones, Ken Follet, Italian writer Fernanda Pivano. In 1996 he shot the documentary 'Celluloide. Immagini allo specchio' (Celluloide. Specular Images) a sort of continuos immersion on fictional and real dimensions during the shooting of Carlo Lizzani's 'Celluloide', the film based on the difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' . After having moved to Paris in 1997, he started to direct documentaries on cinema, 'Fellini per sempre' (Fellini for Ever) and 'Etrange Etrangère', on Romy Schneieder carrier and life, this one written and directed with the French director and journalist Anne Andreu. Among his other French experiences, he signed many reportages on actors and directors in TV programs "Absolument Cinèma" and "Cinèbus". He came back to Italy in 2004 where he connected his multi-talented experience with Fashion World then became contributor at Italian Vogue magazine, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller. His documentary on Fashion Designer Elio Fiorucci was produced by Super Studio TV.