Gualtiero Jacopetti
Birthday: 1919-09-04 Place of Birth: Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Synopsis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gualtiero Jacopetti (born 4 September 1919) is an Italian director of documentary films. He was born in Barga, in northern Tuscany. With Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi is the originator of Mondo films, also called shockumentaries. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gualtiero Jacopetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Goodbye Uncle Tom
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Africa Addio
A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.
Women of the World
A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
