Davide Ferrario

Davide Ferrario (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author.

Life and career

Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio. He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum, and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

After collaborating to several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali, and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir La fine della notte. His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award. Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film, Fade to Black by Oliver Parker.

Davide

Davide is an Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Filipino given name (common) and surname (relatively rare).

The surname is distributed relatively evenly all over Italy and is likely of Neapolitan origin. It also occurs in the Philippines though it is unclear whether the surname was brought to the country by immigrants from Italy or whether it has an independent history altogether.

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Davide Dias

Davide Alexandre Pinto Dias (born 12 April 1983 in Lisbon), simply known as Davide, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for C.D. Santa Clara as a right winger.

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