Maurizio Ponzi

Maurizio Ponzi
Born	8 May 1939 (1939-05-08) (age 72) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1968 - 2004

Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinema critic.

Born in Rome, he wrote cinema reviews in several Italian magazines during the early 1960s. He worked as assistant director in Pier Paolo Pasolini's episode in Amore e rabbia and directed a series of documentaries in 1967-1968.

He has directed 22 films between 1968 (his debut movie I visionari won a prize in the Locarno Festival) and 2004. His film The Pool Hustlers (Io, Chiara e lo Scuro, one of three featuring Francesco Nuti that Ponzi directed in the early 1980s) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Visionaries (1968)
• The Pool Hustlers (1982)
• Aurora (1984)

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Pool Hustlers". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1545/year/1983.html. Retrieved 2009-06-20. 

External links

• Maurizio Ponzi at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Ponzi, Maurizio
Alternative names
Short description	Film director, Screenwriter
Date of birth	1939-5-8
Place of birth	Rome, Italy
Date of death
Place of death