Giada Colagrande

Giada Colagrande

Italian film director and actress. Colagrande was born in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She studied in Italy, Switzerland and Australia, and in 1995 she moved to Rome where she began making video art and documentaries on contemporary art. From 1997 to 2000, she joined the art project VOLUME, making a series of video portraits of seven contemporary artists: Jannis Kounellis, Alfredo Pirri, Bernhard Rüdiger, Nunzio, Raimund Kummer, Gianni Dessí, Maurizio Savini and Sol LeWitt. She made three short films: “Carnaval” (1997), “Fetus – 4 brings death” (1999), and “n.3” (2000). In 2001, she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film, Aprimi il Cuore (Open My Heart), which opened at the Venice Film Festival 2002, and then was selected by many international film festivals, such as the Tribeca Film Festival 2003, in competition, and Paris Cinéma 2003, where it won the award Prix de l’avenir. Giada was also nominated for Best New Director at the Silver Ribbon 2003. Open my Heart was released in Italy by Lucky Red and in the USA by Strand Releasing. In 2005 she directed her second feature Before it Had a Name, which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Willem Dafoe. The film opened at the Venice Film Festival 2005, was then showed in San Sebastian Film Festival and various other international festivals. It was distributed worldwide by Millennium with the title Black Widow. In 2010 she wrote and directed her third feature, A Woman, starring Willem Dafoe and Jess Weixler. It also premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2010 and then screened at many other international film festivals. In 2012, she made The Woman Dress, the third short film of the PRADA series The Miu Miu Women's Tales, and completed the feature-length film Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic, a documentary on the opera directed by Robert Wilson, based on Marina Abramović’s biography, starring Willem Dafoe, Antony Hegarty and Abramović herself, which was screened at MoMA in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Both films premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2012. In 2013 the film The Abramovic Method, which continues her collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramović, was presented at the Venice Film Festival and is now being shown in various museums around the world. (Wikipedia)

  • Title: Giada Colagrande
  • Popularity: 1.271
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1975-10-16
  • Place of Birth: Pescara, Italy
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Giada Colagrande Movies

  • 2002
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    Open My Heart

    Open My Heart

    4.6 2002 HD

    Maria lives with her 18-year-old sister, Caterina in a small apartment, tutors her at home, lets her out only for dance classes. Yet Maria sees no...

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  • 2005
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    Before It Had a Name

    Before It Had a Name

    3.5 2005 HD

    A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time....

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  • 1997
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    You Are My Destiny

    You Are My Destiny

    1 1997 HD

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  • 2014
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    Women Directors

    Women Directors

    1 2014 HD

    Registe, talking on a blade is an Italian documentary about the Italian Cinema signed by women and about the pioneer of the Silent Cinema Elvira...

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  • 2013
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    Castello Cavalcanti

    Castello Cavalcanti

    7 2013 HD

    In 1955 in Italy, race car driver Jed Cavalcanti suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial...

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  • 2014
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    Pasolini

    Pasolini

    5.7 2014 HD

    We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview,...

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  • 2016
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    Father

    Father

    4.8 2016 HD

    Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension.

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  • 2002
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    Open My Heart

    Open My Heart

    4.6 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Open My Heart

    Open My Heart

    4.6 2002 HD

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  • 2005
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    Before It Had a Name

    Before It Had a Name

    3.5 2005 HD

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  • 2010
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    A Woman

    A Woman

    4.8 2010 HD

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  • 2005
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    Before It Had a Name

    Before It Had a Name

    3.5 2005 HD

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  • 2012
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    The Woman Dress

    The Woman Dress

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    The Woman Dress

    The Woman Dress

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2010
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    A Woman

    A Woman

    4.8 2010 HD

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  • 2016
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    Father

    Father

    4.8 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Father

    Father

    4.8 2016 HD

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  • 2012
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    Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

    Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

    7 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

    Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

    7 2012 HD

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  • 1970
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    Tropico

    Tropico

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2002
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    Open My Heart

    Open My Heart

    4.6 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Open My Heart

    Open My Heart

    4.6 2002 HD

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