- published: 09 Jan 2015
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Marco Ponti (born 25 July 1967, in Avigliana, Piedmont) is a prominent Italian film director, whose work includes strange characters who move in a world more like a comic book than a movie screen, in elliptical conversations.
He graduated in Modern Letters at the University of Turin and started working as a copywriter. After two years he worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Semiotics at the University of Turin. In 1995 he attended a script writing course the Holden School in Turin; the following year he worked at the same place under the direction of Alessandro Baricco. In 1997 he attended a course for movie writers at the RAI Cinema Fiction School; in the same year he published a book dedicated to Quentin Tarantino.
He wrote a sitcom for RadioRai and four pieces for the Gruppo della Rocca di Torino's theatre.
After writing and directing some award winning shorts (Benevenuto a San Salvario won the European Film Award in 1998; Amsterdam won an award for the best short feature and for the best actor at the Saint Vincent Festival in 1999), his debut feature film as a writer / director, Santa Maradona, in 2001 has been one of the smash hits of the year.