- Ginevra Elkann
Ginevra Elkann (born 1979) is an apprentice
film director , and, as granddaughter ofGianni Agnelli , is among the heirs to the Agnelli family fortune. She is the daughter of Margherita Agnelli and the French-Italian writer Alain Elkann; her brother, the industrialistJohn Elkann , is widely expected to be the next head of theFiat group.Career
Elkann worked as third assistant director on
Bernardo Bertolucci ’s 1998 filmL’assedio , and was video assistant on Anthony Minghella’sThe Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Later she studied film directing at theLondon Film School and in 2005 her 6th term graduation film, the nine-minute "Vado a messa" (“I’m going to Mass”), was screened during a “Cinema Schools” special event at the62nd Venice International Film Festival . Asked whether she had any particular subjects in mind for a feature-length film, she mentioned two: a thriller set in the world ofsynchronized swimming , and an adaptation of her father’s story "Piazza Carignano", which concerns a FascistJew .References
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