Carolina Cavalli | |
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| Born | |
| Occupation(s) | film director, screenwriter, writer |
| Known for | Amanda, Fremont |
Carolina Cavalli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known as screenwriter and director of Amanda (2022)[2][3] and as screenwriter of Fremont (2023).[4]
Carolina Cavalli was born in Milan[5]
In 2017, she was the recipient of the San Francisco Film Society Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants. In 2018, Cavalli won the Italian screenwriting award Premio Solinas for TV writing.[6]
Her debut feature Amanda premiered at the Venice Film Festival and internationally at the Toronto International Film Festival.[7][8] The film was one of the few Italian debut features ever distributed internationally.[9]
Amanda received 3 nominations for the Italian David di Donatello for the Best Directorial Debut, Best Leading Actress, and Best Supporting Actress categories.[10][11] And nominated for 2 Nastri d’Argento, in the best directorial debut and best leading actress categories.
Cavalli co-wrote the film Fremont along with the Iranian film director and producer, Babak Jalali.[12] Fremont premiered in January 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival,[13] and screened later in March at the SXSW Film Festival.[14][15] It has been selected in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Competition for its International premiere.[16]
In November 2022, her first novel, Metropolitania was published by Fandango Libri.[17][18]