Extending our warmest congratulations to Daria D’Antonio, we briefly retrace her journey here.
Daria was born and raised in Naples. Always passionate about photography, she began her career in cinema at a very young age, after a brief period at university, working as a video assistant and camera assistant. Following a short apprenticeship with directors of photography Pasquale Mari and Cesare Accetta, she began a long-standing collaboration with Luca Bigazzi, first as an assistant and then as a camera operator. During those formative years, she took part in the work of various directors, including Mario Martone, Antonio Capuano, Peter Del Monte, Francesca Archibugi, Francesca Comencini, Gianni Amelio, and Silvio Soldini.
She made her debut as director of photography in 2007 with The Crossing of the Line by Pietro Marcello. She has signed the lighting for, among others, the films Are You Afraid of the Dark by Massimo Coppola, Slam: All for a Girl by Andrea Molaioli, The Landlords by Edoardo Gabbriellini, The Father of Italy by Fabio Mollo, The Bear’s Skin by Marco Segato, N-capace by Eleonora Danco, Remember? by Valerio Mieli, Return by Cristina Comencini, Flesh Out by Michela Occhipinti, The Miracle by Niccolò Ammanniti, Bang Bang Baby by Alaique, Ferri, Bonito, Super-Sex by Rovere, Mazzoleni and Carrozzini, The Hand of God and Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino.
She has been nominated four times for the Nastro d’Argento, winning it in 2022 with The Hand of God; three times for the David di Donatello Awards, winning once in 2022, again for The Hand of God; and has been nominated once and won twice at the Globo d’Oro for The Bear’s Skin and Remember? In 2024 he won the CST Award for Best Artist-Technician at Cannes for the photography of Parthenope.
You can read the interview here, curated by Eleonora Contessi CCS, promoted by Collettivo Chiaroscuro about Parthenope.
An Endless Summer of Abysses and Beauty. Conversation with Daria D’Antonio CCS on PARTHENOPE
