Giovanni Coda

Giovanni Coda
Born	19 January 1964 Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Film director, Photographer
Known for	Director of Il Rosa Nudo

Giovanni Coda^[1] (born 19 January 1964) is an Italian film director and photographer. He is the director of Il Rosa Nudo.

Biography

Coda began his artistic career in the video art field in the early 90’s and had his exhibitions in many museums and art galleries in Venice (Biennale della Videoarte), Tokyo (Ayoama University), London (Watermans Arts Centre), Paris (Maison d’Italie), Madrid (Museo del Rejna Sofia), Milan (Biennale della Videoarte), Rome (Teatro Vittorio), among others. Since 1996 Coda is the director of the V-art Festival (Festival Internazionale Immagine d’Autore). In 2013 he directed his first feature film Il Rosa Nudo.

Filmography (as a video art director)

Year	Film	Notes
1995	P-salm	Jury Recommendation at Catania Festival Videogramma (Estate Catanese directed by Franco Battiato).
1995	L’Attesa	Award for Best Film, Best Photography and Best Editing at ’’Premio nazionale per il cortometraggio sociale Nickelodeon’’,[2] Spoleto (Italy).
1996	L’Ombra del Ricordo	Award for Best Italian Short Film at Festival del Cinema di Arezzo 1996. Award for Best Photography at Festival del Cinema di Palermo.
1998	Il Passeggero[3]
2002	Serafina
2005	Big Talk[4]
2012	Brightness[5]

Filmography (as a feature film director)

Year	Film	Notes
2013	Il Rosa Nudo (Naked Rose)	Gold Jury Prize in the Feature Films category at the 2013 edition of Seattle Social Justice Film Festival, USA.[6] Special event, "for its high artistic, historical and moral value", inside the 7th edition of the Queer Lion Award of the 70th Venice Film Festival 2013[7] Official Selection at Torino GLBT Film Festival 2013, Italy. Official Selection at Florence Queer Festival 2013, Italy. Official Selection at Naples Human Rights Film Festival 2013, Italy. Official Selection at Macon Film Festival 2014. Nomination for Best Narrative Feature, Best Directing, Best Acting, Best Editing. Macon, Georgia, USA. Official Selection at Athens International Film + Video Festival 2014, Athens, Ohio, USA. Film For Peace Award at Gothenburg Indie Film Fest 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden. Official Selection at KASHIS Mumbai Queer Film Festival 2014, Mumbai, India. Official Selection at 28th Festival Mix, Milan, Italy. Selected for the David di Donatello Award nominations 2013/14 in the Best Debut category, Italy.[8] Selected for the Ciak d'Oro Award nominations 2014, Italy.[9] Best International Film Award at 15th Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) 2014, Australia. [10] Official Selection at Perlen Film Festival Hannover 2014, Germany. Award of Excellence at Accolade Competition 2014. Official Selection at Perlen Film Festival Hannover 2014, Germania. Gold Award at Documentary & Short International Movie Award 2014, Jakarta, Indonesia. Bronze Plaque Award at Columbus International Film & Video Festival 2014, USA. Diamond Award at International Film and Photography Festival (IFPF) 2014, Jakarta, Indonesia. Official Selection at CLIFF - Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival 2014, Australia. Bronze Palm Award Narrative Feature at Mexico International Film Festival 2015, Mexico.
2016	Bullied to Death	Official Selection at Torino GLBT Film Festival 2016, Turin, Italy. [11] Official Selection at XX V-Art Festival Internazionale Immagine d'Autore, Cagliari, Italy. Official Selection at 30° Festival Mix, Milan, Italy.[12] Best Avant-Garde Innovation Award at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2016, Australia. [13] Official Selection at Macon Film Festival 2016, Usa. [14]

References

1. Giovanni Coda at the Internet Movie Database
2. Premio nazionale per il cortometraggio sociale Nickelodeon (Retrieved 22-02-2014)
3. Il Passeggero’’ (Retrieved 22-02-2014)
4. Big Talk - L'amor que desune (Retrieved 22-02-2014)
5. Brightness (Retrieved 22-02-2014)
6. Seattle Social Justice Film Festival 2013 Award Winners (Retrieved 22-02-2014)
7. Evento Speciale Il Rosa Nudo di Giovanni Coda alla 70ma Mostra del Cinema di Venezia IMG Press (Retrieved 22-02-2014)
8. Film Italiani in concorso 2013-2014: Il Rosa Nudo (Retrieved 30-06-2014)
9. Ciak d'Oro 2014. I film italiani, Ciak N.5, 05-05-2014, pg. 93 (Retrieved 30-06-2014)
10. Margherita Angelucci, Quello sterminio dimenticato. Il regista sardo Giovanni Coda all'Underground Film Festival con la pellicola Il Rosa Nudo, Il Globo, Melbourne, 08-09-2014 (Retrieved 08-09-2014);
11. Bullied to Death (Retrieved 25-06-2016).
12. Bullied to Death (Retrieved 25-06-2016).
13. Doppia premiere internazionale per "Bullied to Death" (Retrieved 25-06-2016).
14. Bullied to death: l’opera visionaria di Coda sull’omofobia (Retrieved 22-06-2016)

Sources

• Il videoartista cagliaritano autore cult del cinema indipendente, La Nuova Sardegna (Retrieved 25-06-2016);
• Il Corpo di Coda , Cinemecum (Retrieved 22-02-2014);
• Il Rosa Nudo, La Repubblica.it -TrovaCinema (Retrieved 22-02-2014);
• Maria Grosso, Florence Queer Festival. Liberatori, ironici, di inafferrabile sensualità, Alias supplemento del Il Manifesto, 02-11-2013 (Retrieved 22-02-2014);
• "Il Rosa Nudo" di Giovanni Coda vince al Social Justice Film Festival di Seattle, cinemaitaliano.info (Retrieved 22-02-2014);
• Elisabetta Randaccio, Il Rosa Nudo: per una memoria dell'omocausto. Sulle orme di Pierre Seel. In Andrea Minuz e Guido Vitiello (Ed.), La Shoah nel cinema italiano, pp. 196–198. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino. ISBN 978-88-498-3871-8;