Enrico Cocozza was a Scottish

Scotland

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 filmmaker who won many film

Film

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 awards during the 1940s and 1950s. His often surreal

Surrealism

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 films were mainly filmed in and around the town of Wishaw

Wishaw

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 in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, where his family owned the popular Belhaven Cafe. These include Chick's Day (1950), a prize winner at the 1951 Scottish Amateur Film Festival, The Living Ghost (1957), and Glasgow's Docklands (1959). Illness later forced him to give up making films and he spent most of his working life teaching at the University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

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 in Glasgow

Glasgow

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. In 2001 he was the subject of the Channel 4

Channel 4

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documentary Artery: the Story of Enrico Cocozza.

External links

• National Library of Scotland: Scottish Screen Archive (Biography of Enrico Cocozza with links to film details and clips)