Mario Sesti

Mario Sesti (born 1958), has worked as specialist in film restoration of Italian postwar cinema, as film critic for Italian news-magazines and newspapers, as film programmer for TV network. He realized and directed films about Pietro Germi, Federico Fellini and the restoration process, which was shown at MoMA, at the Festival of Cannes and at the Locarno Film Festival. His publications include essays and monographs on Fritz Lang, Nanni Moretti, Jane Campion, and the detective movie. In 1997, his Tutto il cinema di Pietro Germi (The Complete Films of Pietro Germi) won in Italy the Award of Cinema Book of the Year. His work has been translated into English, French, German and Portuguese. As author and cinema scholar he visited Princeton University, University of Washington, American Academy in Rome. As Artistic Director, he worked at Rome Film Festival meeting on a stage in front of thousands of people very important directors and actors like Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Coen brothers, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Francis Coppola, Jim Jarmush, Arthur Penn, Olivier Assayas, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Jane Fonda, Michael Cimino, Spike Lee, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Connery and many others. Criterion selected severals documentary films made by him to be included in Dud version of films directed by Pietro Germi and Pier Paolo Pasolini.