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Elvira Notari: Rediscovering a Cinematic Woman

Women in cinema: in 2024, can we talk about an achieved equality? There is still a long way to go – as in all other sectors of society – to reach full parity and respect. While impatiently awaiting these steps to be taken, a small task that each of us can assign ourselves, as a spectator, is to search for the female figures who for a long time and too easily have been blurred or relegated to the background compared to their male colleagues.
Among these, film director Elvira Notari (Salerno, 1875 – Cava De’ Tirreni, 1946) occupies a place of primary importance. As the first female director in Italy, she is one of the pioneers in the history of cinema with a production that includes over 60 feature films and hundreds of short films and documentaries, all released by her production company, Dora Film, between 1906 and 1929.

To further explore her biography and get a more accurate portrait of Notari, Laceno d’Oro suggests tuning in to Rai Storia on Friday, October 4th at 9:10 pm (then available on Raiplay) to follow an episode of the docuseries “Donne di Campania” dedicated to her – an idea by Giovanni Minoli, with the editorial coordination of Michele Imperio, produced by Gloria Giorgianni for Anele, with Lorenzo Taboga and Elisa Battisti and the participation of Iaia Forte. Among the scientific contributions, for this episode the docuseries avails itself of the collaboration of Paolo Speranza, former director of the magazine Cinemasud and the editorial series Quaderni di Cinemasud. The film historian has the task of testifying to the cooperation aimed at realizing a work on Elvira Notari’s production.

Laceno d’Oro was among the first to contribute to the rediscovery of the director in recent times, producing a project curated by Licio Esposito (“La film di Elvira”, 2014), with a retrospective of her films soundtracked live and a multimedia exhibition, in collaboration with Cactus Film – engaged in the recovery of filmed materials, documents, and testimonies – and Quaderni di Cinemasud. From this synergy, a book curated by Paolo Speranza and a documentary edited by Licio Esposito were created, involving scholars, actors, and all-Campanian crews.
A great work of collaboration and support between important entities in the Campania region and beyond, aimed at rediscovering a director who has been all too often forgotten. A cooperation, in the wake of an equality, that even cinema can create.

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