Guest Speaker Series Presents NYFA BFA Filmmaking Alum Gabriele Fabbro To Screen Films 8 and The Grand Bolero
Campus:
Join Crickett Rumley for a Pizza Party, Film Screenings and Q&A!
Riverside Building, 2nd Floor Theatre
In 2018, BFA Filmmaking alum Gabriele Fabbro was on the film festival circuit with his thesis film 8. Today, he is one of MovieMaker Magazine’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch, and his first feature The Grand Bolero is in competition for Italy’s prestigious David Di Donatello Award, has distribution on Amazon Prime, and has been an official selection at major festivals from Austin to St. Louis.
Join Crickett Rumley, Senior Director of NYFA’s Film Festival Department, for a pizza party and screening of 8 and The Grand Bolero, followed by a conversation with Gabriele about his journey from student filmmaker to first time feature director. They’ll discuss everything from what is was like to collaborate with NYFA alumni Jessica la Malfa (DP) and Ydalie Turk (co-writer) on The Grand Bolero, to favorite film festivals, from how to secure financing to what it was like to work with renowned Italian actress Lidia Vitale. Questions welcome!
About Gabriele Fabbro
Named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of 2022’s screenwriters to watch, Gabriele Fabbro was born in 1996, in Milan, Italy. He's a film director with a BFA degree in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy. Since 2011, he wrote, directed and produced over 30 productions including features, short films, music videos and commercials. Among his most recent works, he directed the music video "If You Run” (2020) for Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). His latest short film "8” (2019) screened at the 76 Venice Film Festival. "The Grand Bolero", his first fictional feature, premiered at the 2021 Austin Film Festival, is one of 2022’s most awarded feature films from Italy and is currently in competition for the David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s equivalent to the Oscars.