FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI

Francesca Archibugi was born in Rome on May 16th 1960 from a family of good bourgeoisie. She enters the show business very young: as a teenager she works as a model and at the age of 16 she is chosen on the street to interpret the part of Ottilia in the script of Rai Uno directed by Gianni Amico, Le affinità elettive (1978), taken from the homonym novel by the German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which makes her take a role also in the miniseries What to do? (1979) filmed by Gianni Serra. The meeting with the experts on television and theater definitively marks his destiny: after finishing high school, Francesca enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - which she attended between 1980 and 1983 - and regularly follows the Bassano School of Ermanno Olmi as a director. The short film that earned her the diploma at the National Film School (on the set of the film meets the jazz musician Battista Lena, composer of the music of all her films and her current companion) wins numerous international festivals, but is not the only one to be realized. In fact he directs other short films such as Conditional reflex, The state of affairs, The war is just over, The most beautiful dress and the short commissioned by the City of Rome on handicapped children, La piccola avventura (1983).
He sporadically continues to play roles as an actress, especially at the beginning of the 80s, both in the theater as Cressida in "Troilo e Cressida" by William Shakespeare directed by Pierluigi Pizzi, and in the films for the cinema La caduta degli angeli rebels (1981) by Marco Tullio Giordana and for the TV Vampirismus (1982) by Giulio Tali, to finally stop with the acting and concentrate on screenplay and direction. Produced by Ermanno Olmi's Hypothesis Cinema (which will always indicate as one of his greatest masters), in 1984 Francesca shoots the short Un sogno truffato, and the following year wins the Solinas Prize, the highest Italian event dedicated to writing for the cinema.