Francesca Comencini (; born 19 August 1961) is an Italian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984. Her film '' Le parole di mio padre'' was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films ...

section at the

2001 Cannes Film Festival The 54th Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 20 May 2001 in film, 2001. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Italy, Italian film ''The Son's Room'' by Nanni Moretti. The fe ...

. In 2012, her film '' Un Giorno Speciale'' was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the

69th Venice International Film Festival The 69th annual Venice International Film Festival, organized by Venice Biennale, took place at Venice Lido from 29 August to 8 September 2012. The festival opened with the Indian director Mira Nair's '' The Reluctant Fundamentalist'', and clos ...

. She was married to French producer

Daniel Toscan du Plantier Daniel Toscan du Plantier (7 April 1941 – 11 February 2003) was a French film producer. Educated at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques he became advertising manager for the ''France Soir'' daily newspaper in 1966 and between 1975 and 1985 was di ...

Filmography

* ''

Pianoforte The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

'' (1984) * '' La lumière du lac'' (1988) * '' Annabelle partagée'' (1991) * ''

Elsa Morante Elsa Morante (; 18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel ''La storia'' (''History'') is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time. Life and ...

'' (1997) * '' Le parole di mio padre'' (2001) * ''

Un altro mondo è possibile The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizin ...

'' (2001) * '' Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo'' (2002) * '' Firenze, il nostro domani'' (2003) * '' Mi piace lavorare - Mobbing'' (2004) * '' Visions of Europe'' (2004) * '' A casa nostra'' (2006) * '' In fabbrica'' (2007) * '' L'Aquila 2009 - Cinque registi tra le macerie'' (2009) * '' Lo spazio bianco'' (2009) * '' Un Giorno Speciale'' (2012) * '' Gomorra - La serie'' (from 2014) (TV series) * '' Amori che non sanno stare al mondo'' (2017) *'' Django'' (TV series) (also

creative director A creative director (or creative supervisor) is a person who makes high-level creative decisions and, with those decisions, oversees the creation of creative assets such as advertisements, products, events, or logos. Creative director positions ar ...

)

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* 1961 births Living people Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Writers from Rome {{Italy-film-director-stub