Emanuele Crialese

Emanuele Crialese (b. 1965, Rome) moved to the US in 1991 to study direction at New York University. Following the short film Heartless (1994) he went on to shoot his feature debut Once We Were Strangers (1997), which was presented at Sundance. In 1999 he cooperated on a project involving Ellis Island. In 2002 his next feature, Respiro, won Cannes’ Critics’ Week; the film, which screened at KVIFF 2003, was then picked up by more than 30 countries. In 2007 Crialese… (lisää)