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Romano Scavolini Web Site
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prodigy, he has in his twenties and thirties to develop into a cult figure based on his works which successfully blended poetry and powerful drama. Once the "enfant terrible" of Italian Cinema, he has now re-emerged in the USA and matured into a writer, director and producer of popular films which have the intensity and immediacy necessary to achieve commercial success. His professional experience is extensive: writer/director of twelve full length feature, six of which he produced himself, and writer, director/ producer of over fifty shorts and documentaries for film and TV.
His expertise in all facet of film making allows him to carefully budget projects which can be released on a very modest financial scale without calling on expensive stars, producers etc. who all too often inflate production budgets without providing commensurate sales leverage. Born in Italy in 1940, he left at the age of eighteen for Germany. While working there as a "stevedore" he wrote, directed, acted and produced his first film : "The ravaged one". A self taught film maker, he presented the film to the Center of Cinematography in Rome where it was universally acclaimed. For the next seven years, he worked his way into film industry, taking on a wide variety of jobs to broaden his experience, and then joined the army. In 1964 he shot his next feature "The quiet fever" which won numerous prizes worldwide as a powerful political essay on human violence. He was then asked to become free lance director for RAI TV (the Italian state TV network) and, from 1964 to 1966 directed ten shorts and TV specials. In 1966 he made his first truly professional full length feature "Blind Fly", a controversial pictorial analysis of aimless violence brought on by the central character's lack of motivation and purpose in life. The film made the rounds of major international festivals and promoted him to the ranks of "cult" film maker. Two years later, he wrote and directed "The Dress Rehearsal" a highly structured "joycean" fantasy exploring the multi faceted aspects of the cinema. During this period, he continued to make numerous shorts and documentaries on such diverse subject as anthropology and developments in medical science. Between 1968 and 1970 he made four major fiction films, and finally he left for vietnam to cover the war as a free lance photographer. On his return to Italy, he spent two years as director of photography and worked with Gideon Backman on a "special" on Federico Fellini. Then he started his own production company (Lido Cinematografica) and wrote, directed and produced a number of films on a broad range of subject such as "Spirits of Death" (psychodrama), "Your Honor" (a fiction treatment of a true Mafia story), "Heart" (an adaptation of four children's stories from the classic Italian novel 'Cuore', performed by an entire cast of children). Between 1973 and 1976 he traveled extensively, especially in Central and Latin America working as a journalist, writing screenplays and producing a number of documentaries on local subjects.
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