Giorgio Mangiamele

Directing

Born: August 13, 1926

Birthplace: Catania, Sicily, Italy

Giorgio Mangiamele studied Fine Arts in Catania, Italy; Film Production at the Polizia Scientifica, Rome, Italy; and journalism in the Faculty of Journalism, Pro-Deo University in Rome, Italy. He emigrated to Australia in 1952, and became a Naturalised Australian citizen in 1957. Soon after arrival in Australia, he set up a photographic studio in Carlton, and started making films. In the late fifties he took over a cinema school in Russell Street, Melbourne, which had run into difficulties, and which later he shifted to his photographic/film studio in Carlton. Between 1979 and 1982, he held a contract with the PNG Government, Prime Minister's Department, making five films and thereby basically establishing a PNG Film Unit. Over the next years, until his death, he worked on various unfulfilled scripts, mainly one finally known as Sogeri Road.