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Edition 2020
Films
Crew:
Cinematography: Sean Price Williams
Production: Anthony Vaccarello, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, Olivier Muller, Diana Phillips
Production: Anthony Vaccarello, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, Olivier Muller, Diana Phillips
Sportin’ Life is a documentary by Abel Ferrara in which the director takes a look inwards, into the sources of his self-expression, his creativity, his essence as an artist. His life and his world are seen through his art, through music and filmmaking, his early works, through his collaborators and artistic partners such as Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia and Paul Hipp. As he documents his experience of the premiere of Siberia (2020) at the Berlinale and the Coronavirus outbreak, Ferrara says: “the subject of my new documentary is the relationship I have to my work, to Willem Dafoe, and my music and art – these relationships are the starting point and I could not avoid facing what the world went through this year with the pandemic.”
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Cast:
Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Anna Ferrara, Paul Hipp, Joe Delia -
Original Title:
Sportin’ Life -
Country:
France -
Year:
2020 - 65’ Subtitles: Portuguese and English
Crew:
Cinematography: Sean Price Williams
Production: Anthony Vaccarello, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, Olivier Muller, Diana Phillips
Production: Anthony Vaccarello, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, Olivier Muller, Diana Phillips
Director
Abel Ferrara

Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.