Carlo Liconti
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Carlo Liconti is an
Italian-Canadian Italian Canadians or Italo-Canadians (; ) are Canadian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who migrated to Canada as part of the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Canada. Accordi ...
film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born in
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, Italy, August 15, 1949, he emigrated to
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,
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, Canada via the U.S. in 1955. Liconti began his filmmaking career in 1975 after attending
York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...
and
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, or Toronto Met), formerly Ryerson University, is a Public university, public research university located in Toronto, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, Toronto, Gar ...
. He started in commercial production, setting up his own studio: Leader Media, which became one of Canada's leading commercial houses producing well over 200 commercial spots. He produced and directed his first feature film ''
Concrete Angels ''Concrete Angels'' is a Canadian musical drama film, directed by Carlo Liconti and released in 1987."Concrete Angels fail to beat odds in T.O.". ''Toronto Star'', December 4, 1987. Set in 1964, the film centres on a group of teenagers in a worki ...
'' in 1985. His other credits include, among others the feature film ''Brown Bread Sandwiches'' starring
Giancarlo Giannini Giancarlo Giannini (; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' Love and Anarchy'' (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for '' Seven Beaut ...
and
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, which he also wrote and directed, as well as ''Vita Cane'' and ''Foreign Bodies''. He directed ''
The Campbells ''The Campbells'' is a period drama television drama series produced by Scottish Television, an affiliate of British television network ITV, and Canadian television network CTV which ran from 1986 to 1990. The series starred Malcolm Stoddar ...
'' and ''
My Secret Identity ''My Secret Identity'' is a television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 to May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. It was later shown ...
'', and produced/directed documentaries including ''Dragons of Crime'' for A&E and CBC. He also produced the movie-of-the-week ''Greener Fields'', the first Canadian-Italian co-production under the new treaty. In mid-2000s Liconti was responsible for setting up an independent TV network based out of Toronto. Liconti has produced a feature film and television series in Cuba with his company Leader Media, the first production company to have an official treaty co-production with the country.


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Filmography - New York Times
* Italian emigrants to Canada 1949 births Living people Film directors from Toronto York University alumni Toronto Metropolitan University alumni People from Veroli Canadian television directors Film producers from Ontario {{Canada-film-bio-stub