Monogamy & Its Discontents: The Love Project episode 3: Nana Ghana

About The Director

From Wikipedia:

Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician.

Background

Tao Ruspoli is the second son of Prince Alessandro "Dado" Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and Austrian-American actress Debra Berger.

Tao was born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.

He currently lives and works in Venice, California.

Career

Moviemaker magazine singled out Ruspoli as one of the 10 Young Filmmakers To Watch in its spring 2008 issue. His feature narrative debut, Fix, was one of 10 feature films to screen in competition at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival and soon afterward at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where Ruspoli was awarded the Heineken Red Star Award for "most innovative and progressive filmmaker." Fix also won the Festival Award for Best Film at the 2008 Brooklyn Film Festival, Vail Film Festival and the 2008 Twin Rivers Media Festival, as well as other prizes at several international festivals.

His most well-known documentaries are Just Say Know, a personal discussion of his family's drug addiction and Being in the World, "a celebration of being human in a technological age", and an exploration of the ideas of Martin Heidgger. His other films include Flamenco: A Personal Journey, a feature length documentary about the flamenco way of life as it is lived by Gypsies in the south of Spain. He has directed a number of other short documentaries, including El Cable (also about Flamenco), and This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan (a portrait of the renowned logician, mathematician and concert pianist Raymond Smullyan).

Tao founded LAFCO in 2000. The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, is a bohemian collective of filmmakers and musicians who work out of a converted school bus. Through LAFCO, Tao has produced several films and helped dozens of filmmakers to make their first films and discover the wonders of digital media.

His producing credits include the feature film Camjackers, which he also acted in and co-edited. Camjackers won the best editing award at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Tao is an accomplished flamenco guitar player, and his first CD, Flamenco, was released on Mapleshade Records in 2005.

Filmography

Jack (1996) Production Assistant
Bulworth (1998) Art department Assistant
Tango, no me dejes nunca (1998) Camera Apprentice
Just Say Know (2002) Director, Cinematographer and Film editor
This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan (2004) Director, Cinematographer and Film editor
El Cable (2004) Director, Cinematographer, Editor and Film producer
Flamenco: A Personal Journey (2005) Director, Cinematographer and Film producer
Camjackers (2006) .... Whack Filmmaker #1 and also Film editor and Executive Producer
Fix (2008) .... Milo and also Writer, Cinematographer and Film director
Behind the Wheel (2008) Film director
Being in the World (2009) Film director

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Monogamy & Its Discontents

Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Love Project episode 3: Nana Ghana

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