Antonietta De Lillo
Biography
Director, photographer, freelance journalist, Antonietta De Lillo was born in Naples. She is presently living and working in Rome, where she is busy with her new production company marechiarofilm and is ideally pursuing the experience which has matured over twenty-five years of activity.
Antonietta De Lillo was born in Naples, 6th March 1960.
She receives her degree in cinema at the D.A.M.S. (acronym for Drama, Arte, Musica e Spettacolo) faculty, University of Bologna. She works as a freelance journalist and photographer for important newspapers and magazines. She moves to Rome where she works as assistant cameraman in various television and film productions.
In 1985 she directs her first feature-length film, Una casa in bilico (Tottering Lives), which wins the Nastro d’Argento prize for the best first opus; in 1990 she shoots her second film, Matilda. Both films are realized in collaboration with Giorgio Magliulo.
From 1992 to 1999 she is the author of numerous documentary films and video-portraits, among which the following are selected and awarded prizes in diverse International festivals: Angelo Novi Movie Stills Photographer, Dr. Lucio Fulci’s Day-For-Night, Each Chair Has its own Sound – Portrait of Alda Merini, The Betrothed (Promessi sposi).
She directs Racconti di Vittoria (Vittoria’s Tales) (awarded the Fedic and Union of Cinema Critics Prize at the 52nd International Venice Film Festival) in 1995, the Maruzzella episode from the collective film I Vesuviani in 1997 and Non è giusto (Not Fair), presented at the 54th Film Festival of Locarno in 2001.
The latest feature film she directs is Il Resto di Niente (The Remains of Nothing), a special event at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. The film receives numerous acknowledgements and prizes, inter alia three David of Donatello awards and five nominations for the Nastri d’Argento.
Her new production and distribution company marechiarofilm ideally carries on with the experience she developed, first with Angio Film srl (together with Giorgio Magliulo) and later with Megaris srl (together with Magliulo, Giogiò Franchini and Paola Capodanno). With marechiarofilm she realizes in 2011 the first participated-crowdsourced film in Italy Il pranzo di Natale, presented at the Rome International Film Festival. In 2013 she directes the documentary film La pazza della porta accanto, a conversation with the poet Alda Merini presented at the 31st Turin Film Festival, and in 2014 the documentay film Let’s go presented at the 32nd Turin Film Festival. In 2016 she is awarded with a special prize by the Nastri d’Argento Committee for the participated film OGGI INSIEME DOMANI ANCHE, presented at the 33rd Turin Film Festival.