Maria Pia Fusco

[2][1] As journalist for La Repubblica, she reported on contemporary cinema and conducted interviews with many famous Italian and international directors and actors, including a 1998 behind-the-scenes reportage on Stanley Kubrick.

[1][2] In the meantime, Fusco started working as journalist for La Repubblica, which had only been founded recently.

[1][2] For at least three decades, she followed the film festivals of Cannes, Venice, Berlin, London, Marrakesh and others, conducting interviews with Italian directors including Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, Ermanno Olmi, Giuseppe Bertolucci and Nanni Moretti, as well as younger filmmakers - many of whom her friends - and international stars such as Sean Connery and Roman Polanski.

[2] Through her friendship with Ken Adam, Fusco also managed to enter Stanley Kubrick's mansion to report behind the scenes in an article published on July 23, 1998.

According to Anna Bandettini, it was her masterpiece, representing her way of reporting on cinema not in an abstract way, but on its stories and lives.