Roberto Forza (born 26 September 1957) is an Italian film cinematographer. Forza was born in

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of Italian parents who had moved to South America a few years earlier.Stefano Masi, ''Dizionario mondiale dei direttori della fotografia'', Le Mani, 2007, pp. 299-300. . In 1961 his parents decided to move back to

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, where he graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1977. In the same period, he developed a passion for cinema and attended the courses of history of cinema held by film critic and author Gianni Rondolino. From 1983 to 1987, he was a cameraman at the

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production center in

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, working in a large number of television programs, series and TV-movies. He then left RAI to devote himself to a freelance profession, working in the field of advertising, documentary and short film industry. He debuted as film cinematographer in 1993, with ''Punto di fuga''. In 2001 Forza was nominated to

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for

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for the

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's drama film ''

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''; from then he started a long professional relationship with Giordana, both in the fields of cinema and television. Forza received a second

nomination in 2012, for Giordana's '' Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy''.

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