Corrado Farina

Short Biography

Corrado Farina's first fiction film was an 8mm short he wrote, directed and starred in when he was 20 years old. He went on to direct around 20 such films, spanning such genres as horror, SF, war, comedy and drama. After graduating in law, he was hired as a copywriter in the advertising agency Armando Testa. There, he quickly started to direct his own commercials. After a few years he quit and moved to Rome where he started directing documentaries and started pitching ideas for movies. Besides his two feature films, he directed countless documentaries and commercials. In 1994 he published his first novel, a movie-related mystery titled "Un posto al buio" (A Place in the Dark). More novels followed: "Giallo antico" (An Ancient Mystery, 1999), "Storia di sesso e di fumetto" (A Tale of Sex and Comics, 2001), "Dissolvenza incrociata" (Cross Fade, 2002), "Il calzolaio" (The Shoemaker, 2004), "Il cielo sopra Torino" (The Sky Above Torino, 2006). Both "Giallo antico" and "Dissolvenza incrociata" have a movie theme: the first one connects the shooting of "Cabiria" (1914) with the death of Italian novelist Emilio Salgari, and the second takes place in Turin in the Fifties, during the shoot of a swashbuckling film. In February 2006, he created and co-directed with Alberto Farina a montage documentary called "Motore!" designed to be shown in Turin's "Museo del cinema" during the Winter Olympic Games.