Giuseppe Tornatore

AKA:
Peppuccio Tornatore , Salvatore Giuseppe Tornatore
Nationality:
Italian
Birthdate:
05/27/1956
Birthplace:
Bagheria, Sicily
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Sicilian-born Giuseppe Tornatore proved a prodigy of sorts, beginning his career as a prize-winning still photographer. While in his mid-teens, he began directing, first for the stage and then by making the short film "Il Carretto/The Wagon". Eventually Tornatore caught the attention of RAI television and was hired to hem documentaries and TV-movies. In 1982, he garnered attention for his documentary "Ethnic Minorities in Sicily", which picked up a prize at the Salerno Film Festival. He shifted to fictional features co-writing the script to 1983's "Centro Giorni a Palermo/A Hundred Days in Continued
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From Story
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milestones
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Milestone
 
Won awards from various Italian photography magazines
1972 
Directed two stage plays, "Bella Vita" and "L'Arte della Commedia"
1972 
Made first short film, "Il Carretto/The Wagon" (date approximate)
1978 
Served as president of CLCT Cooperative
1979 
Hired by RAI Television where he directed such films as "Diario di Guttuso" and "Brancati and Sciascia"
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