Ginevra Elkann

Ginevra Elkann (born 24 September 1979)[1][2] is a London-born Italian film producer and director. She is a member of the Agnelli family and granddaughter of Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli.

Early life

Elkann was born in London,[3] the daughter of Margherita Agnelli and the French-Italian writer Alain Elkann.[4][5][6] Her father is Jewish and her mother is Catholic,[7] and she was raised Catholic.[8][9] Her maternal grandparents were princess and socialite Marella Agnelli and the industrialist Gianni Agnelli. She is the great-grand-niece of Ettore Ovazza.

She has two older brothers John Elkann and Lapo Elkann. Her brother, the industrialist John Elkann, is Chairman of the Fiat group of companies. Her parents divorced when she was young and she moved first to Rio de Janeiro and then to Paris with her mother and stepfather, Russian count Serge de Pahlen.[3]

Career

Elkann worked as third assistant director on Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1998 film L’assedio, and was video assistant on Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).

Later she studied filmmaking at the London Film School. In 2005, her LFS graduation film, the nine-minute Vado a messa ("I’m going to Mass"), was screened during a "Cinema Schools" special event at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival. Asked whether she had any particular subjects in mind for a feature-length film, she mentioned two: a thriller set in the world of synchronized swimming, and an adaptation of her father’s story Piazza Carignano, which concerns a Fascist Jew. It is inspired by the story of her father's side of the family, who were the influential Ovazza banking family (early allies and important financial patrons of Mussolini).[10]

In 2009 she founded production company Caspian Films, first producing Frontier Blues, debut feature film by Iranian director and fellow London Film School graduate Babak Jalali. This film was developed with support from the Cannes Cinéfondation and premiered in competition at the 62nd Locarno Film Festival. She then produced other independent feature films such as White Shadow, directed by Noaz Deshe (2013), which won the Lion of the Future award at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, Chlorine, directed by Lamberto Sanfelice (2015), which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and again with Babak Jalali on his third feature Land, which premiered in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2012 she founded production and distribution company Good Films, together with Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Luigi Musini and Lorenzo Mieli. [11]

In 2019, her debut feature film as a director Magari ("If Only") had its world premiere as the opening film at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival [12] Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, theatrical distribution of the film could not go ahead as programmed, so the film was made available on RaiPlay, the streaming platform of Italian national broadcaster RAI in May 2020.[13]

Personal life

She married Giovanni Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Marrakesh (Morocco) on 25 April 2009.[14] She has two sons and a daughter with her husband: Giacomo (born 15 August 2009),[15] Pietro (born 31 October 2012)[16] and Marella (born 27 May 2014).[17]

Filmography

Director
  • Vado a messa - Short Film (2005)
  • Magari (2019)

Producer

Ancestry

References
  1. http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=ELKANN+Ginevra
  2. http://heirsofeurope.blogspot.it/2010/01/gaetani-dellaquila-daragona.html
  3. New York Times: "Portrait of a Lady" By Rob Haskell February 14, 2014
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2006-12-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Ginevra Elkann raconte des histoires à la Pinacoteca". Les Echos (in French). 14 December 2007. Archived from the original on 25 December 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  7. La Stampa: "Ginevra Elkann, matrimonio a Marrakesh" 26 Apr 2009
  8. "Jewish and Italian: Celebrity writer celebrates his heritage", Victor L. Simpson (December 4, 2004), Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
  9. http://www1.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/societa/200904articoli/43151girata.asp
  10. "L' altra famiglia di John Elkann all' ombra delle sinagoghe", La Repubblica (4th September 2004)
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20140127032144/http://www.goodfilms.it/about/ Good Films - About.
  12. "First Look: Trailer for Locarno Film Festival’s Opening Film ‘Magari’", Variety (magazine) (30th July 2019)
  13. https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/05/20/coronavirus-otto-film-italiani-per-otto-settimane-su-rai-play-si-inizia-con-magari-racconto-intimo-e-disfunzionale-di-ginevra-elkann/5808120/ "Coronavirus, otto film italiani per otto settimane su Rai Play. Si inizia con Magari, racconto intimo e disfunzionale di Ginevra Elkann"], Il Fatto quotidiano (20th May 2020)
  14. "Ginevra Elkann, matrimonio a Marrakesh". La Stampa (in Italian). 26 April 2009. Archived from the original on 16 August 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  15. "È nato il figlio di Ginevra Elkann". La Stampa (in Italian). 18 August 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  16. "È nato Pietro: fiocco azzurro per Ginevra Elkann". Vanity Fair (in Italian). 1 November 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  17. "Becoming an Agnelli". Vanity Fair. September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
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