Paz!

Renato De Maria (1958) grew up in Bologna, where he studied philosophy. In 1980 he started his career as videomaker. He directed Echi d’Occidente (Raiuno, 1983), a sixteen-episode surrealistic miniseries for the program “Mister Fantasy”. He produced a dance video series with the Sosta Palmizi contemporary dance company (Raiuno, 1984). That same year he shot six shorts in London and Berlin for the program “0bIadi Oblada”. He also works in advertising and won the 1987 Art Director Guild award. He directed a series of shorts (one of which was done with Wim Wenders) for the broadcast “Immagina” (Raiuno, 1989) shot in New York, Washington. Berlin and Frankfurt. In 1989 he produced Raoni’s Return for the Rainforest Foundation, a documentary on the Amazon rainforest done with Sting and Raoni, a native American chief. In 1990 and 1991 he wrote and directed various documentaries, he made a videoclip with Vittorio Storianos photography for the Health Ministry, and finally he did the sign-on sequence for the program “Avanzi” and a promotional program for Raitre, “Sapore di Rete”. —TFF