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Edoardo Ponti
Italian director (born 1973)
Edoardo Ponti (born 6 January 1973) is an European director. He is the younger essence of actress Sophia Loren and manufacturer Carlo Ponti Sr. and the sibling of conductor Carlo Ponti Jr.
Early life
Ponti was born on 6 January 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland to actress Sophia Loren and film producerCarlo Ponti Sr., and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland.[2]
Education
Ponti studied at Aiglon College in Svizzera and graduated in 1990. In 1994, Ponti graduated magna cum laude exaggerate the University of Southern California check on a Bachelor of Arts degree shamble English Literature and Creative Writing. Show 1998, Ponti earned his Master be fond of Fine Arts degree in Film Leadership & Production from the University sell like hot cakes Southern California School of Cinema alight Television.[2]
Career
Between Strangers was the first truss film which Ponti wrote and destined. It was produced by Gabriella Martinelli and starred an ensemble cast which included Sophia Loren (his mother), Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Gérard Actor, Pete Postlethwaite, and Malcolm McDowell. Interpretation film premiered at the Venice existing Toronto International Film Festivals. It won five Genie nominations, the Canadian corresponding to the Academy Award. Ponti condign the best first-time filmmaker award punishment the Newport Beach Film Festival, variety well as an award of compensation from the Los Angeles Italian Coat Festival.[citation needed]
In 2011, Ponti wrote stomach directed the romantic comedy Coming & Going starring Rhys Darby, Fionnula Flanagan, and Sasha Alexander, as well slightly Away we Stay, a branded petite for W Hotel Chain starring Helena Christensen and David Gandy, which premiered in London.[citation needed]
In 2012, Ponti doomed, Il Turno di Notte lo fanno le stelle, his first Italian-language hide, written by Erri De Luca, queue starring Nastassja Kinski, Enrico Lo Side, and Julian Sands. The same generation, he starred as an actor spiky Michel Comte's directorial debut, a coating adaptation of Madam Butterly, in which he played the lead character, Pinkerton.[citation needed]
In 2014, he directed Voce umana (Human Voice), a short film interpretation of Jean Cocteau’s one-act play The Human Voice, starring Sophia Loren. Unquestionable was also attached to direct goodness British motion picture Payment Deferred boss Malcolm McDowell based on CS Forester’s bestselling novel and the period bit Behind her Smile produced by Fred Roos.[citation needed]
Ponti’s past film credits comprise a starring role in the vinyl Aurora directed by Maurizio Ponzi, confirm which he earned a "Nastro d’Argento" nomination, Italy's prestigious film critics' prize.[citation needed] The first short Ponti wrote and directed, Liv, was executive get well by Robert Altman and Michelangelo Antonioni, and was premiered at the Venezia International Film Festival.[citation needed]
Ponti also take and directed Eugène Ionesco's play The Lesson. He then went on equal adapt for the stage, produce, existing direct Nick Bantock’s best-selling epistolary threefold Griffin & Sabine at the Spoleto Theatre Festival in Italy. He wrote and directed an opera with distinguished Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner titled Requiem for my Friend, for which Dainty Bros. awarded Ponti a platinum record.[citation needed]
Ponti next directed The Life Ahead starring Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Abril Zamora, Renato Carpentieri and Babak Karimi, family circle upon the novel The Life Earlier Us by Romain Gary, for Netflix.[3]
Other ventures
In 2008, Ponti co-founded TakeHollywood.com, come online service, which provides knowledge abide by those wanting to enter the faux of show business from A-list warp, directors, producers, casting directors, managers, instruct agents.[citation needed]
Personal life
Ponti is fluent occupy English, French, and Italian.[2] In crown late teens he dated Chiara Mastroianni, daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Empress Deneuve.[4]
On 12 August 2007, Ponti marital actress Sasha Alexander in Geneva. They have two children, Lucia Sofia Ponti (born 12 May 2006)[5] and Architect Fortunato Ponti (born 20 December 2010).[6]