ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
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  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILMS
    • La luna sott'acqua (The moon beneath the water)
    • TIDES - A History of Lives and Dreams Lost and Found (Some broken)
    • PARADISO
    • LIES AND WAVES
    • THE HOUSE OF PHRASES
    • In Development >
      • UMBRELLAS
      • CLICK
  • NEWS
    • Wins 2 Awards at Parma International Music Film Festival!!
    • TIDES Wins Special Mention Award At Mediteran Film Festival (Bosnia)!!
    • TIDES - PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
    • TIDES becomes a great open air event
    • TIDES IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON!
    • IRISH PREMIERE OF TIDES AT BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL
    • US PREMIERE OF TIDES IN CHICAGO!
    • TIDES ( MAREE) Wins the International Documentary Award @ Foggia Film Festival!
    • TIDES (MAREE) WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD AT MALTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!
    • TIDES Wins Award @ Sole Luna Film Festival!
    • TIDES WINS TWO INTERNATIONAL AWARDS!
    • TIDES Offical Selection @ Ischia Film Festival!
    • TIDES Official Selection @ River Film Festival
    • MARIO DONDERO
    • PARADISO Wins Ruby Award in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles!
    • PARADISO gets to Beverly Hills, LA!
    • TIDES CROWDFUNDING
    • 'PARADISO' - Screening in Rome @ Detour On The Road Film Festival
    • IL PARADISO DI NEGRINI E DONDERO
    • 'PARADISO' nominated @ Salento International Film Festival
    • Special screening of Paradiso in Osimo, Italy
    • The legend Mario Dondero presents Paradiso @ 'Puglia Without Frontiers'
    • 'Paradiso' selected @ Morristown International Film Festival, USA
    • Special Screening of 'Paradiso' in Vienna @ Wiener Festwochen
    • Paradiso in the Italian TV News
  • INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS
    • "A CHE SERVE L'ARTE IN UN TEMPO FERITO? A SOLLEVARCI DALLA POLVERE PER RIPRENDERCI LA LUNA
    • L'ESSERE UMANO NON E' ANCORA NATO. Intervista ad Alessandro Negrini su CUMPANIS
    • I CONFINI AI TEMPI DEL VIRUS. INTERVISTA CON IL REGISTA ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
    • LA NOUVELLE VAGUE MAGAZINE: Intervista al regista Alessandro Negrini
    • TIDES (MAREE) arriva al Milano Film Festival
    • VOLEVO FARE IL CONTRABBANDIERE (E sono finito col fare il regista) Intervista di Antonella Molinaro
    • FILM ABOUT RIVER FOYLE GAINS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
    • Awards continue to flow for Foyle inspired film - Derry Journal
    • INTERVISTA - LONG TAKE, DI MARTINA IBBA
    • TIDES (MAREE) di Alessandro Negrini insignito della Menzione Speciale al Sole Luna Film Festival a Palermo
    • Il “Paradiso” ritrovato e documentato da Alessandro Negrini - recensione di Giorgio Macario
    • ARTDIGILAND: interview with ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
    • - Conversando con Alessandro Negrini
    • Sunday Tribune Interview
    • Reegisti emergenti: intervista di Antonellla Molinaro
    • Paradiso: recensione di Valerio Moggia
    • "Paradiso": recensione di Federico Audisio Di Somma
    • Paradiso in the Italian TV news
    • 'Paradiso' on The Guardian
    • 'An ode to human desire' - Review by Martin Alioth
    • Review of Paradiso – by Tim “Ghost”Gardner, Ohio
    • Interviews in Italian
    • Reviews / Articles
    • Paradiso: Italian review
    • PRESS
  • PHOTO/VIDEOS
    • VIDEOS >
      • Adriano Aprà presenta il regista Alessandro Negrini al Teatro dei Dioscuri al Quirinale
      • RIPARARTE: Alessandro Negrini ad Amandola
      • TIDES receives the Soundrivemotion Award
      • Il regista Alessandro Negrini incontra il pubblico del Foggia Film Festival
      • LA 7 GOLD INTERVISTA ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
      • INTERVISTA DI PAOLO GABBIANI - BACK TO THE MOVIES RIPLIVE.IT
      • INTERVISTA Treviso Sole Luna Doc
      • Alessandro Negrini: Interview @ ISCHIA FILM FESTIVAL
      • ARTDIGILAND - Interview with Alessandro Negrini, by Silvia Tarquini
      • IL PARADISO DI NEGRINI E DONDERO
      • Interview
      • Paradiso - Trailer
      • Lies and waves - Trailer
    • PHOTOS
  • CONTACT
  • BLOG: BICICLETTE SULLE NUVOLE
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.            



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  • HOME
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • FILMS
    • La luna sott'acqua (The moon beneath the water)
    • TIDES - A History of Lives and Dreams Lost and Found (Some broken)
    • PARADISO
    • LIES AND WAVES
    • THE HOUSE OF PHRASES
    • In Development >
      • UMBRELLAS
      • CLICK
  • NEWS
    • Wins 2 Awards at Parma International Music Film Festival!!
    • TIDES Wins Special Mention Award At Mediteran Film Festival (Bosnia)!!
    • TIDES - PORTUGUESE PREMIERE
    • TIDES becomes a great open air event
    • TIDES IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON!
    • IRISH PREMIERE OF TIDES AT BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL
    • US PREMIERE OF TIDES IN CHICAGO!
    • TIDES ( MAREE) Wins the International Documentary Award @ Foggia Film Festival!
    • TIDES (MAREE) WINS BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD AT MALTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!
    • TIDES Wins Award @ Sole Luna Film Festival!
    • TIDES WINS TWO INTERNATIONAL AWARDS!
    • TIDES Offical Selection @ Ischia Film Festival!
    • TIDES Official Selection @ River Film Festival
    • MARIO DONDERO
    • PARADISO Wins Ruby Award in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles!
    • PARADISO gets to Beverly Hills, LA!
    • TIDES CROWDFUNDING
    • 'PARADISO' - Screening in Rome @ Detour On The Road Film Festival
    • IL PARADISO DI NEGRINI E DONDERO
    • 'PARADISO' nominated @ Salento International Film Festival
    • Special screening of Paradiso in Osimo, Italy
    • The legend Mario Dondero presents Paradiso @ 'Puglia Without Frontiers'
    • 'Paradiso' selected @ Morristown International Film Festival, USA
    • Special Screening of 'Paradiso' in Vienna @ Wiener Festwochen
    • Paradiso in the Italian TV News
  • INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS
    • "A CHE SERVE L'ARTE IN UN TEMPO FERITO? A SOLLEVARCI DALLA POLVERE PER RIPRENDERCI LA LUNA
    • L'ESSERE UMANO NON E' ANCORA NATO. Intervista ad Alessandro Negrini su CUMPANIS
    • I CONFINI AI TEMPI DEL VIRUS. INTERVISTA CON IL REGISTA ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
    • LA NOUVELLE VAGUE MAGAZINE: Intervista al regista Alessandro Negrini
    • TIDES (MAREE) arriva al Milano Film Festival
    • VOLEVO FARE IL CONTRABBANDIERE (E sono finito col fare il regista) Intervista di Antonella Molinaro
    • FILM ABOUT RIVER FOYLE GAINS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
    • Awards continue to flow for Foyle inspired film - Derry Journal
    • INTERVISTA - LONG TAKE, DI MARTINA IBBA
    • TIDES (MAREE) di Alessandro Negrini insignito della Menzione Speciale al Sole Luna Film Festival a Palermo
    • Il “Paradiso” ritrovato e documentato da Alessandro Negrini - recensione di Giorgio Macario
    • ARTDIGILAND: interview with ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
    • - Conversando con Alessandro Negrini
    • Sunday Tribune Interview
    • Reegisti emergenti: intervista di Antonellla Molinaro
    • Paradiso: recensione di Valerio Moggia
    • "Paradiso": recensione di Federico Audisio Di Somma
    • Paradiso in the Italian TV news
    • 'Paradiso' on The Guardian
    • 'An ode to human desire' - Review by Martin Alioth
    • Review of Paradiso – by Tim “Ghost”Gardner, Ohio
    • Interviews in Italian
    • Reviews / Articles
    • Paradiso: Italian review
    • PRESS
  • PHOTO/VIDEOS
    • VIDEOS >
      • Adriano Aprà presenta il regista Alessandro Negrini al Teatro dei Dioscuri al Quirinale
      • RIPARARTE: Alessandro Negrini ad Amandola
      • TIDES receives the Soundrivemotion Award
      • Il regista Alessandro Negrini incontra il pubblico del Foggia Film Festival
      • LA 7 GOLD INTERVISTA ALESSANDRO NEGRINI
      • INTERVISTA DI PAOLO GABBIANI - BACK TO THE MOVIES RIPLIVE.IT
      • INTERVISTA Treviso Sole Luna Doc
      • Alessandro Negrini: Interview @ ISCHIA FILM FESTIVAL
      • ARTDIGILAND - Interview with Alessandro Negrini, by Silvia Tarquini
      • IL PARADISO DI NEGRINI E DONDERO
      • Interview
      • Paradiso - Trailer
      • Lies and waves - Trailer
    • PHOTOS
  • CONTACT
  • BLOG: BICICLETTE SULLE NUVOLE