Francesca Gentile videomaker and documentary director

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Il profumo del prato verde

Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
A documentary directed by Giorgio Gambino and Sara Mansour about a year in the life of the Torino Women’s Football Club. Directors: Giorgio Gambino, Sara Mansour DV directors: Francesca Gentile, Paolo Rapalino Production: Ideamatic, RAI
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Multimedia Cronenberg

Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
Un artista deve essere capace di turbare la gente, scavare sotto la superficie della civiltà, avere a che fare con quegli aspetti della natura umana che si vorrebbe ignorare. Director: Francesca Gentile Production: Current TV
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Female Genital Mutilation

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Kassida and Suad analyse why this tradition keeps going on. They both condemn infibulation, but don’t condemn women who practice it. They first want to understand why a woman would want to infibulate her daughter: it’s for her future, otherwise she won’t get married and...
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L’ardua sentenza

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“L’ardua sentenza” (Let history decide), documentary trailer. Two women talk about their lives during the Second World War from different points of view. Director: Francesca Gentile (2000)
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Alma Doble

Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
“Alma doble” is a human and artistic encounter between two of the most important figures of argentinian tango: Silvia Vladimivsky and Gustavo Beytelmann. Featuring Ezio Bosso and Philippe Cohen Solal from Gotan Project. Directors: Ivana Bosso and Francesca Gentile Production: La Sarraz Pictures, Project Image...
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Gotan. Tango d’esilio e di migrazione

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Teaser for the “Alma Doble” documentary project: a human and artistic encounter between two of the most important figures of argentinian tango: Silvia Vladimivsky and Gustavo Beytelmann. Directors: Ivana Bosso and Francesca Gentile (2004)
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Shooting in Toronto

Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
From October to December I moved to Toronto to shoot “Mangia che ti fa bene!” (Eat! It’s good for you), a tv-show by Fernanda Lazzaro about healthy Italian cooking.It will be airing in Canada and Italy on cable and satellite starting April 2010. Meanwhile I...
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