Cecilia Mangini (31 July 1927 – 21 January 2021) was an Italian film director, considered the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy.[1][2][3]

Cecilia Mangini in 2020

In 1958, her first documentary was released, titled Ignoti alla Città (Unknown to the City). Written by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the film focused on adolescents in Rome's suburbs after World War II.[1]

Mangini died on 21 January 2021 in Rome.[4]

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Born in 1927 in Mola di Bari, Italy, Mangini moved with her family to Florence at age six, when her father's leather business failed.[5] She then moved to Rome in 1952 and worked in a film club federation, where she met and eventually married Lino Del Fra, with whom she collaborated on several film projects.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Povoledo, Elisabetta (24 January 2020). "A Legendary Documentary Maker Closes 'an Open Wound'". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Cécilia Mangini". Vienna International Film Festival. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Addio a Cecilia Mangini, la prima documentarista d'Italia". La Repubblica (in Italian). 22 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  4. ^ "È morta Cecilia Mangini, fu la prima donna documentarista italiana. Pioniera del cinema del reale, Rai Storia la dedica una serata". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 22 January 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  5. ^ Vivarelli, Nick (25 January 2021). "Cecilia Mangini, Italian Documentary Cinema Pioneer, Dies at 93". Variety. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Firenze di Pratolini". Docucity (in Italian). Archived from the original on 10 April 2014.
  7. ^ Casadio 1997, p. 99.
  8. ^ Dopo i tagli operati dalla produzione, gli autori disconosceranno l'opera, che verrà distribuita con il titolo Processo a Stalin
  9. ^ a b Mereghetti, Paolo (22 January 2021). "È morta Cecilia Mangini, pioniera del cinema documentario in Italia". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Two Forgotten Boxes – A trip to Vietnam (Due scatole dimenticate – Un viaggio in vietnam)". Filmitalia.
  11. ^ Casadio 1997, p. 122.
  12. ^ Casadio 1997, p. 137.

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