Life is not the party we hoped for. But while we are here we should dance.
Multi award winning film director. Born in Turin, he defines himself a Film Director by mistake.
He grew up in Turin in Italy were he was practising the flânerie, the art of strolling, investigating the city by discovering places, peoples and stories.
Before becoming a Film Director he worked as school janitor, sales man for an unknown circus, illegal museum guide and deliveryman of yellow pages. He spent much of the late 1990s travelling Europe writing and in 2001 he moved to Ireland.
His documentaries and films have garnered a remarkable raft of international awards in festivals around the world.
Negrini's most acclaimed work deals with social exclusion, magic realism and resistance
and his works combine documentaries, fiction and poetry.
His documentary ‘Paradiso’ was commissioned by BBC and has won 18 international awards.
Negrini was one of the participants of the Writers' Lab tutored by reknown avant-garde theatre director David Gothard
(former Artistic Director of Riverside Studios in London and Associate Artist at Abbey Theatre in Dublin ).
His last film 'Tides - a History of lives and dreams lost and found (some broken) has won 6 international awards.
Alessandro Negrini has been selected twice at the prestigious SOURCES 2 European Script Development Workshop,
mentored by international Script Editors David Wingate and Michael Seeber.
Among Negrinis' works:
'TIDES - A History of lives and dreams lost and found (some broken)', (2016)
A dreamlike and oneiric autobiography of the River Foyle in Northern Ireland.
A Visual reverie on the themes od border, time and dreams.
Since its recent release, Tides has received international recognition,
winning six international award and it will have its US premiere in Chicago in March.
‘PARADISO’ (2010)
A feature documentary on the lives of The Fountain estate in Derry, Northern Ireland. Produced by Margo Harkin (Besom Productions) and commissioned by BBC. Winner of 15 International Awards and official nominations in more than 50 film festivals around the world, including Best Documentary Prize at Slow Film Festival of Eger (Hungary), Best Documentary Award at Global Cinema Festival, Indore (INDIA), Audience Award at Wurzburg International Film Festival (Germany), Best Documentary Award at Dhaka International Film Festival (Bangladesh), Best Documentary at Arcipelago Rome Film Festival (Italy), Best Film at We The People Film Festival, London.
‘MEMORIES OF ICE AND FIRE’ (2008)
Opening show of the Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Commissioned by the Winter Olimpic Games Company. The project is a visual journey between the two essential elements of life, ice and fire.
‘LIES AND WAVES’ (2003)
a film on the thin border between madness and normality. Winner at Anteprima Spazio Torino Film Festival, and Best Short Film at Augsburg International Film Festival, Best Script prize at Modena Short Film Festival. Special Screening at the Havana Film Festival, Cuba.
'THE HOUSE OF PHRASES' (2002)
Winner as Best International Short Film Online at the Foyle Film Festival, Derry, selected in several International Film Festivals.
‘PRIORITY MAIL’, (2000)
Play based on epistolary material from various intellectuals and artists from England, Hungary and Italy living during Nazism and Fascism.
He grew up in Turin in Italy were he was practising the flânerie, the art of strolling, investigating the city by discovering places, peoples and stories.
Before becoming a Film Director he worked as school janitor, sales man for an unknown circus, illegal museum guide and deliveryman of yellow pages. He spent much of the late 1990s travelling Europe writing and in 2001 he moved to Ireland.
His documentaries and films have garnered a remarkable raft of international awards in festivals around the world.
Negrini's most acclaimed work deals with social exclusion, magic realism and resistance
and his works combine documentaries, fiction and poetry.
His documentary ‘Paradiso’ was commissioned by BBC and has won 18 international awards.
Negrini was one of the participants of the Writers' Lab tutored by reknown avant-garde theatre director David Gothard
(former Artistic Director of Riverside Studios in London and Associate Artist at Abbey Theatre in Dublin ).
His last film 'Tides - a History of lives and dreams lost and found (some broken) has won 6 international awards.
Alessandro Negrini has been selected twice at the prestigious SOURCES 2 European Script Development Workshop,
mentored by international Script Editors David Wingate and Michael Seeber.
Among Negrinis' works:
'TIDES - A History of lives and dreams lost and found (some broken)', (2016)
A dreamlike and oneiric autobiography of the River Foyle in Northern Ireland.
A Visual reverie on the themes od border, time and dreams.
Since its recent release, Tides has received international recognition,
winning six international award and it will have its US premiere in Chicago in March.
‘PARADISO’ (2010)
A feature documentary on the lives of The Fountain estate in Derry, Northern Ireland. Produced by Margo Harkin (Besom Productions) and commissioned by BBC. Winner of 15 International Awards and official nominations in more than 50 film festivals around the world, including Best Documentary Prize at Slow Film Festival of Eger (Hungary), Best Documentary Award at Global Cinema Festival, Indore (INDIA), Audience Award at Wurzburg International Film Festival (Germany), Best Documentary Award at Dhaka International Film Festival (Bangladesh), Best Documentary at Arcipelago Rome Film Festival (Italy), Best Film at We The People Film Festival, London.
‘MEMORIES OF ICE AND FIRE’ (2008)
Opening show of the Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Commissioned by the Winter Olimpic Games Company. The project is a visual journey between the two essential elements of life, ice and fire.
‘LIES AND WAVES’ (2003)
a film on the thin border between madness and normality. Winner at Anteprima Spazio Torino Film Festival, and Best Short Film at Augsburg International Film Festival, Best Script prize at Modena Short Film Festival. Special Screening at the Havana Film Festival, Cuba.
'THE HOUSE OF PHRASES' (2002)
Winner as Best International Short Film Online at the Foyle Film Festival, Derry, selected in several International Film Festivals.
‘PRIORITY MAIL’, (2000)
Play based on epistolary material from various intellectuals and artists from England, Hungary and Italy living during Nazism and Fascism.
