{{Short description|Anglo-Italian film director, producer and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Cosima Spender''' (born in Siena, Italy) is an Anglo-Italian film director, producer and writer who has worked in varying capacities on ''Dolce Vita Africana'' (2008 director and producer), ''Without Gorky'' (2011 director and writer) and ''Palio'' (2015 writer and director).<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1785694/|title=Cosima Spender - IMDb|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref> ''Palio'' won the best documentary editing award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.<ref name="tribecafilm">{{cite web|url=https://tribecafilm.com/press-center/press-releases/2015-tribeca-film-festival-announces-award-winners|title=Tribeca|publisher=tribecafilm.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref>
Spender was born in Italy but moved to England when she was fourteen.<ref name="peacockpicturesltd">{{cite web|url=http://www.peacockpicturesltd.com/www.peacockpicturesltd.com/BIOGRAPHY_COSIMA.html|title=BIOGRAPHY COSIMA|publisher=peacockpicturesltd.com|accessdate=2015-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122616/http://www.peacockpicturesltd.com/www.peacockpicturesltd.com/BIOGRAPHY_COSIMA.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> She received a degree in Anthropology and Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She then went on to enroll in the post-graduate documentary directing course at the National Film and Television School also in England.<ref name="africanfilmny">{{cite web|url=http://www.africanfilmny.org/2013/cosima-spender/|title=Cosima Spender | African Film Festival Inc.|publisher=africanfilmny.org|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref>
Spender is married to and sometimes collaborates with the film editor Valerio Bonelli.<ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://unseenfilms.blogspot.com/2015/05/cosima-spender-and-valerio-bonelli-talk.html|title=Unseen Films: Cosima Spender and Valerio Bonelli talk about their film PALIO at Tribeca 2015|publisher=unseenfilms.blogspot.com|accessdate=2015-09-20}}</ref>
Her father, Matthew Spender, is son of the poet Stephen Spender and pianist Natasha Spender; her mother, Maro, is daughter of the Armenian artist Arshile Gorky.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3622171/Pop-star-people-smuggler-jailbird-demagogue-and-all-in-a-coat-that-cost-15000.html|title=Pop star, people smuggler, jailbird, demagogue – and all in a coat that cost £15,000|website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=14 August 2004 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/looking-into-the-heart-of-another-world-31538688.html|title=Looking into the heart of another world|website=independent|date=21 September 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/cosima-spender/|title = Cosima Spender|date = 27 March 2016}}</ref>
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