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LINA MANGIACAPRE. ARTIST OF FEMINISM

Lina Mangiacapre (1946-2002) was a radical and multifaceted figure of the Neapolitan and Italian feminism. She left a large number of works as a painter, writer, poet, playright, film and theatre director, suggesting new ways to women’s freedom. She used art and performative actions as forms of political struggle and in the Seventies she pionereed one of the first european feminist film festivals, ‘L’altro sguardo’ (The Other Eye), in Sorrento, a coastal town near Naples. Her big butterfly glasses and her fancy androgynous clothes still remain in memories as well as some of her manifestos which anticipated transfeminism and queer theories.
The documentary explores Lina’s political and artistic path, showing archive footage and new footage shot in different areas of Naples and at Lina’s home. It has been funded through crowdfunding and realized mostly thanks to women’s talents.

  • NADIA PIZZUTI
    Director
    AMICA NOSTRA ANGELA (DOC.)
  • NADIA PIZZUTI
    Writer
  • www.produzionidalbasso.it
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    LINA MANGIACAPRE ARTISTA DEL FEMMINISMO
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    42 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 31, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - NADIA PIZZUTI

Nadia Pizzuti is a journalist, a writer and an independent filmmaker. Born in 1957 in Rome of a French mother and an Italian father, she studied political science and then cinema at Esec (Ecole supérieure des Etudes cinématographiques) in Paris.
In the ‘90’s, she shot several shorts with the Italian feminist group “Una volta per tutte”.
In 1996 her screenplay “Idillio” got an award at the Turin’s International Gay and Lesbian Festival.
From 1991 to 2011 she worked at the Italian news agency ANSA and wrote two books about her experience as a correspondent in Tehran, one of which (Il giardino di Shahrzad) has been published in France and in Spain as well.
She then went back to cinema and organized a season of films by women pioneers, “Cinepioniere, da Alice Guy a Dorothy Arzner” at the Rome’s Women International House and at the Barcelona’s Women House.
In 2012 she shot “Amica nostra Angela” (Our dear friend Angela), a portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Angela Putino, a free and innovative figure of the Italian feminism. The documentary has been since screened in several cities, in Italy and abroad, and has been selected at the festival ‘Some prefer cake’ in Bologna.
Her new documentary, “Lina Mangiacapre. Artista del femminismo” (Lina Mangiacapre. Artist of feminism) is a portrait of an another extraordinary figure of the Neapolitan and Italian feminism. The films has been selected at the ‘Films de Femmes’ festival (Créteil-Paris, march 2016) and at the ‘Sguardi Altrove’ festival (Milan, march 2016).

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