Emanuele Crialese
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- July 26, 1965, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Movies
- 6
Emanuele Crialese (Italian: [emanuˈɛːle kriaˈleːse]; born 27 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome and studied filmmaking in New York City.
Emanuele Crialese was born on 26 July 1965 in Rome to Sicilian parents. He studied filmmaking at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, from where he graduated in 1995. During this time he made several short films including Heartless (1994). His first feature film, Once We Were Strangers (1997), was an Italian-American co-production, funded by a producer who had noticed Crialese during his apprenticeship in the United States.
Between 1998 and 2000, Crialese worked in theater and on a drafting of a cinematic treatment of Ellis Island along with producer Robert Chartoff, the producer of Raging Bull and Rocky
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Raffa | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2022 | L'immensità | Director, Writer |
| 2011 | Terraferma | Screenplay, Director, Writer |
| 2006 | Golden Door | Director, Producer, Writer, Screenplay |
| 2002 | Respiro | Director, Screenplay, Writer |
| 1997 | Once We Were Strangers | Writer, Director, Producer, Screenplay |
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