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Stefano Odoardi, 17/03/1967, is an Italian filmmaker,
            who lives between Italy and Holland. He made different short
            films that have been selected in various international film festivals
            and broadcasted on tv. In January 2002 he received in Amsterdam
            his Postgraduate Studies Diploma from DasArts (The Amsterdam
            School Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies). In the
            spring 2003 he shoot the short film "the earth in the sky"
            (S8 negative) which received a special mention of the jury in
            the festival Unimovie 2004. (Pescara,Italy). In January 2005
            he shoot his new short film 'Exile of Beauty' (S16mm). The film
            won the prize for the best artistic contribution in the Festival
            Arcipelago in Rome in 2005 and was presented in competition at
            Fike 2005 (Evora film festival, Portugal). In 2005 the Dutch
            film fund financed the treatment writing in collaboration with
            Kees Roorda of the feature film 'November'. In September 2005
            he presented in the Triennale of Milan a 20 minutes film inspired
            on J. Beuys 'Concrete Utopia of the Earth'. The film will be
            presented in different museums. In June/October 2005 he shot
            his first long film on 35mm 'A White Ballad' (scenario by Kees
            Roorda and Stefano Odoardi, the scenario development has been
            financed by the Dutch Film) produced by Alessio Rigido (Italy)
            in co-production with Moskito Film, O Film, Image Grabbing and
            De Productie for the Netherlands. The film was presented in October
            2006 during the First Rome Film Fest 2006 in the Business Street
            Selection (market screening for distributors and producers) and
            it will have it's world premiere in January 2007 in the official
            selection of the 36th Rotterdam Film Festival. The film has been
            selected in the official selection of the Tiburon Film Festival
            (San Francisco, Usa, 22 - 30 March 2007). Stefano Odoardi is
            writing the scenario of his third feature film 'November' (the
            scenario development has been financed by the Dutch Film) and
            he is preparing to shoot his second film 'Mancanza'. A White
            Ballad will be released in Holland by "Het Filmmuseum".



            Filmography

            
Into Our First
            World (16mm, 1998 ), 

            With Closed Eyes (35mm, 1998), 

            the land that is not (S8 b/w, 1999 ), 

            history of b. (S8 negative, 2002 ), 

            the earth in the sky (S8 negative, 2003 ),

            Exile of Beauty (S16mm 2005 ), 

            Concrete utopia of the earth (S8 color, 2005 )

            Histories from the World (a non linear film installation, 2002-2007,
            work in progress ).