Barbara Cupisti used to be an Italian television and film actress who is well known outside of her native country by Horror fans. They will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi

Michele Soavi

Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi is an Italian filmmaker.-Career:Michele Soavi was born in Milan. As a teenager, Soavi enrolled in creative arts classes and developed into a talented actor. He took acting lessons at Milan's Fersen Studios, but his greatest talent was working behind...

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Since 2002 she started to direct.
Her first Documentary movie Mothers (90 min), showned in Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

 2007, won the David di Donatello

David di Donatello

David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...

 2008 for Best Documentary of the year.

Her newest documentary, Forbidden Childhood, was screening the festival circuit and has received the Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film at the Bahrein International Human Rights Film Festival (May 2009) and the Amnesty International

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

 Cinema and Human Rights Award at the Pesaro

Pesaro

Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....

 International Film Festival for the New Cinema (June 2009).
Unicef Italia gave to this movie the High Patronage.

As Actress

• The New York Ripper
  The New York Ripper
  The New York Ripper, original title Lo squartatore di New York, is a 1982 Italian horror film directed and co-written by Lucio Fulci.The film score was written by Francesco De Masi...
  
  (1982)
• La Chiave(1983)
• Deliria
  Deliria (film)
  Stage Fright is a 1987 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi. The film stars Barbara Cupisti, David Brandon, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Loredana Parrella, Martin Phillips, Robert Gligorov, Jo Ann Smith, Ulrike Schwerk, Piero Vida, Mary Sellers, and Clain Parker...
  
  (1987)
• Opera
  Opera (film)
  Opera is a 1987 Italian giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, and Ian Charleson. Cinematography is done by Ronnie Taylor while Brian Eno and Claudio Simonetti composed the film's score. The film was released in the United States...
  
  (1987)
• La Chiesa (1989)
• Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
• Only You
  Only You (1994 film)
  Only You is a 1994 romantic comedy film written by Diane Drake and directed and coproduced by Norman Jewison. It stars Marisa Tomei as a young woman who searches for a man whom she believes is her soulmate and Robert Downey Jr. as a young man she meets along the way...
  
  (1994)
• Denti
• L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle 10
• Le mani forti
• Il bambino e il poliziotto
• La Salle de bain

As Director

• Mothers http://www.secretgardenproductions.com/doc_madri.html(2007)
• Forbidden Childhood Forbidden Dreams http://www.secretgardenproductions.com/doc_forbiddenchildhood.html (2008)

External links

Secret Garden Productions http://www.secretgardenproductions.com/home.html