Italian film producer, writer and director Gil Rossellini has died after a four-year battle with a rare bacterial infection. He was 51.
Rossellini depicted his fight with the staphylococcus bacteria in a series of documentaries entitled Kill Gil, a widely praised video diary of his hospitalisation.
He died on 3 October in Rome.
Rossellini began his film career in New York during the 1980s, working as a production assistant on Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.
He soon started his own international production company Rossellini + Associates, with offices based in New York, Rome, and New Delhi, India.
Rossellini produced and directed films and documentaries including, as producer, the comedy Lontano da dove, multi-media rock opera The Polyhedron of Leonardo, six-part TV series Enemy Mine, and The Hole in the Wall - a documentary about children in India learning to use computers.
His Kill Gil (Volume 2 1/2) is set to screen at the Rome Film Festival later this month.
And Italian president Giorgio Napolitano led the tributes to Rossellini in a statement on Friday, praising his video diaries and "the courage and determination with which he faced the serious illness that led to his being paralysed".
Rossellini depicted his fight with the staphylococcus bacteria in a series of documentaries entitled Kill Gil, a widely praised video diary of his hospitalisation.
He died on 3 October in Rome.
Rossellini began his film career in New York during the 1980s, working as a production assistant on Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.
He soon started his own international production company Rossellini + Associates, with offices based in New York, Rome, and New Delhi, India.
Rossellini produced and directed films and documentaries including, as producer, the comedy Lontano da dove, multi-media rock opera The Polyhedron of Leonardo, six-part TV series Enemy Mine, and The Hole in the Wall - a documentary about children in India learning to use computers.
His Kill Gil (Volume 2 1/2) is set to screen at the Rome Film Festival later this month.
And Italian president Giorgio Napolitano led the tributes to Rossellini in a statement on Friday, praising his video diaries and "the courage and determination with which he faced the serious illness that led to his being paralysed".
- 10/13/2008
- WENN
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