{{Short description|Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Davide Ferrario | image = Davide Ferrario.jpg | alt = | caption = | other_names = | occupation = Italian film director, screenwriter and author | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|26 June 1956}} | birth_place = Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Italy }}

'''Davide Ferrario''' (born 26 June 1956) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and author.

== Life and career == Born in Casalmaggiore, Cremona, Ferrario graduated in Anglo-American literature, then he began to work in film distribution, and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles, Jim Jarmusch, Susan Seidelman, Godfrey Reggio.<ref name=bio>{{cite news|last=Si. Ro.|title=Davide Ferrario: Il militante del cinema italiano|newspaper=MyMovies|accessdate=25 April 2015|url=http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?r=1263}}</ref><ref name=rep>{{cite news|last1=Paolo D'Agostini|title=Cacciatori di felicità |url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/08/27/cacciatori-di-felicita.html?ref=search|accessdate=25 April 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=27 August 1994}}</ref> He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine ''Cineforum'', and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.<ref name="bio"/>

After collaborating on several screenplays, Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film ''Non date da mangiare agli animali'', and in 1989 he directed his first feature film, the neo-noir The End of the Night.<ref name=bio/><ref name=rep/> His 2004 film ''After Midnight'' entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival, in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gianluigi De Palo |author2=Federico Pontiggia |author3=Federico Pontiggia |title=I sogni dei giovani|year=2004 |publisher=Effata Editrice IT, 2004|isbn=8874021704}}</ref> Also a novelist, his 1995 debut novel '' Dissolvenza al nero'' was later adapted into a film, ''Fade to Black'' by Oliver Parker.<ref>{{cite news|title=Un film su Orson Welles diretto da Oliver Parker|url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/un-film-su-orson-welles-diretto-da-oliver-parker/290400|accessdate=2 May 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=11 April 2005}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == * ''The End of the Night'' (1989) * ''Love Burns'' (1994) * ''We All Fall Down'' (1997) * ''Children of Hannibal'' (1998) * ''Guardami'' (1999) * ''After Midnight'' (2004) * Tutta colpa di Giuda (2009) * ''Blood on the Crown'' (2021) * ''Umberto Eco - La biblioteca del mondo'' (2022)

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== External links == * {{IMDb name|0274143}}

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