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Renzo Rossellini first collaborated with his father, Roberto Rossellini, as an assistant director and, later, as his producer until 1977. Then, he founded and served as chairman of "Gaumont Italia" and, later, "Artisti Associati Spa". With these companies, he produced, financed and distributed more than 100 films including: City of Women (1980), Orchestra Rehearsal (1978) and And the Ship Sails On (1983) by Federico Fellini, Fanny and Alexander (1982) by Ingmar Bergman, That Night in Varennes (1982) by Ettore Scola, Il marchese del Grillo (1981) and Amici miei (1975) by Mario Monicelli, Seeking Asylum (1979), the first film of Roberto Benigni as actor, by Marco Ferreri, The Last Metro (1980) by François Truffaut, Querelle (1982) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Skin (1981) by Liliana Cavani, Nostalghia (1983) by Andrei Tarkovsky, The Three Brothers (1995) and Carmen (1984) by Francesco Rosi, Sweet Dreams (1981) by Nanni Moretti, Il Don Giovanni (1979) by Joseph Losey, The Cotton Club (1984) by Francis Ford Coppola, Ragtime (1981) by Milos Forman and Identification of a Woman (1982) by Michelangelo Antonioni. He was the assistant director and producer for his father, Roberto Rossellini, from 1957 to 1974. Actually, Renzo Rossellini teaches production and film direction at Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba, and he also teaches at New University of Cinema and TV in Rome, at the Foundation for Development and Democracy in Santo Domingo. Renzo Rossellini is actually also the President of the Roberto Rossellini Foundation.