Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

[1] Born in Castelfiorentino, near Florence, he founded at the high school an innovative film club, which proposes and critically analyzes neorealism movies; since then he showed a character of "novelty", often considered as "subversive".

He graduated from the University of Florence with a thesis on the "New Italian Cinema", Ferrara then moved to Rome to attend the directing course at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography and degreed in 1959, but hardly managed to find interesting opportunities, also because of his rather transparent political opinions.

He continued, despite many difficulties and impediments, especially related to finance and production, his activities as a documentary and short filmmaker.

Ferrara died of cardiac arrest on 25 June 2016, a few days before his 84th birthday.