JULY 25
Biography
Born in Rome on 27 June 1957, he graduated in Political Science with a dissertation on “Il fumetto politico italiano dal 1968 al 1982” (The Italian political comic strip from 1968 to 1982). As a young man, he worked in several radios in Rome, where he hosted the news, and music and film review programs. In 1981 he was assistant director for Raffaele Andreassi in documentaries dedicated to contemporary painters, while the following year he began collaborating with Radio Tre. Starting in 1983, he began writing for the newspaper "La Repubblica", becoming a consultant for Rai television programs, including "Cartoni Magici", "Quelli della Notte", "Almanacco del Giorno Dopo".
The year 1984 marked the beginning of his collaboration with "L’Espresso" and in the same year, with Enzo Ungari, he edited the "Anima/Azione" review, in Massenzio, during the Estate Romana, becoming, in the same year, a member of "Immagine: Centro di Studi Iconografici", the cultural association which collaborated for decades with the Salone di Lucca (Comics, Cinema d’Animazione, Cartoons) and then with ExpoCartoon in Rome. In the same year he collaborated with the monthly "Comic Art" magazine, of which he became editor-in-chief two years later, while the following year he became the Italian manager of the "Westdeutsche Kurzfilmtage" of Oberhausen, the most important short film festival in the world, and was columnist for the "Foto & Grafica" section on L’Espresso Roma.
For four years, from 1990 to 1994, he was the Italian manager for the short films selection presented at the Berlin International Film Festival. "L’Espresso" magazine saw Cosulich, between 1992 and 2001, as columnist for the "Il Fumetto" section, leading it to its natural evolution up to the current "Cartooning" section. 1995 was the year of birth of the Repubblica supplement, "Musica!" to which he contributed with reviews, music and film interviews, as well as being columnist of the "Cartoon" section, which later became "Fumetti".
He wrote for the "Liberal" monthly magazine, and took part in the development of the pages dedicated to cinema of repubblica.it, born in early 1997. In the same year he collaborated with the weekly "Skorpio" and "Il Mattino", where he wrote about film, music and comics. In September of the following year, he hosted a weekly column in the "Jefferson" program, on Radiodue, until the end of the program in June 1999, when he began to report about recommended home-video, comics, music and films on Kata-Libri and on L’Espresso on line. In early 2000, he worked on TV on the Raisat Show channel, while in 2006 he was the curator of a series of eighteen volumes published by Editoriale l’Espresso with monographs dedicated to "Corto Maltese" by Hugo Pratt and works by Andrea Pazienza and Vittorio Giardino. Also worth mentioning is his work in the ministerial committee of the Quality Awards for short films, in 1990-1991, and in the ministerial committee of the Quality Awards for feature films, medium-length films and short films from 1996-97 and 2001. Since 2003 he has been co-director, with Giulietta Fara, of the Future Film Festival of Bologna.
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