Daniele Segre, the director who always put social reality at the center of his works for cinema and theatre, has died.
He was born in Alessandria on 8 February 1952 and among his most famous films are Dying at Work, Ragazzi di Stadio forty years later, Lisetta Carmi, a soul on the move and Nom de guerre: woman.
Committed, attentive, sensitive, Segre was a complete cinema person, he knew how to direct, write, edit, be a set designer, photographer, producer.
His works have been applauded at international festivals starting with the Venice Film Festival.
He was a teacher of Cinema in reality at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and also didactic director of the reportage course of the Abruzzo branch of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - National School of Cinema.
Standard bearer of low-budget Italian independent cinema, he dedicated one of his latest works of 2021, 'Un tempo un ufficio', to director Tonino De Bernardi, self-taught and pioneer of the underground.
In 2023 art, which has always been another passion of his, was at the center of the film on Piero Gilardi "humble, extraordinary, coherent artist" presented at CinemAmbiente in Turin.
The funeral ceremony for Daniele Segre, a Turin director who died on 4 February, will be held in the ground camp of the Israeli department at the Monumental Cemetery of Turin, Corso Regio Parco 90, on Wednesday 7 February at 10 am. This was announced by the company I Cammelli which he founded in 1981. "Daniele - he writes in a note signed by his family Marcella and Emanuele Segre - has dedicated his life to the "cinema of reality", giving voice to the marginalized and fragile and honoring characters who have marked history. Photographer , author of uncomfortable and provocative films, was the creator of an unmistakable cinematographic language that breaks with conventional canons. A demanding and esteemed teacher, he introduced generations of students to social cinema, transmitting to them perseverance, passion and technical skills. Sincere and coherent, intuitive and curious, with a sharp irony, we will remember him for his acuteness in highlighting the deepest aspects of people and for his constant human, civil and political commitment".
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