Mario azzopardi biography

Azzopardi was born in 1944, in Ħamrun.
Mario Philip Azzopardi (born 19 November 1950) is a Canadian-Maltese television and film director and writer.
Mario Philip Azzopardi is a Canadian-Maltese television and film director and writer.

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Azzopardi, Mario 1950-

PERSONAL

Born in 1950, in Malta.

Addresses:

Agent—Agency for the Performing Arts, 405 South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Manager—Course Management, 15159 Greenleaf St., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.

Career:

Director and writer. Also a poet and literature teacher.

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award nomination, best direction in a dramatic program or series, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1986, for Night Heat; Gemini Award nomination, best direction in a dramatic or comedy series, 1995, for Robocop; Craft Award nomination, outstanding achievement in direction— feature film, Directors Guild of Canada, 2003, for Savage Messiah.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Gagga (also known as The Cage), 1971.

Deadline, 1979.

Nowhere to Hide, New Century Vista, 1987.

Divided Loyalties, 1989.

Savage Messiah (also known as Moise: L'affaire roch theriault), Christal Films, 2002.

Television Director; Movies:

Die Einzige zeugin, 1995.

Bone Daddy (also known as Palmer's Bones and L'affaire Palmer), HBO, 1998.

Profile of a Directo

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Mario Azzopardi (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian/Maltese television and film director and writer. He has worked on such shows as The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1 (including its two-hour pilot), and Stargate Atlantis. In 2008 he directed all eight episodes of the highly acclaimed and award-winning HBO Canada/TMN miniseries ZOS: Zone of Separation, which he co created and produced. Mario Philip Azzopardi should not be confused with Maltese poet, short story writer and columnist Mario Azzopardi (born 1944), who is also involved in theatre and directs the Malta Drama Centre. In 1971, while still a student at the Royal University of Malta, he directed Il-Gaġġa, based on Frans Sammut's novel Il-Gaġġa, presumed to be the first full-length feature filmed entirely in Maltese. Transferred to digital format and enhanced, the film was re-released in Malta in March 2007. Around the same time he assisted Cecil Satariano during the making of "Giuseppi." Azzopardi was born in Siggiewi, Malta, but left his native country for Canada in 1978, following a dispute with local censors and

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Naked as Water

Book of poems by Mario Azzopardi

Naked as Water, by Mario Azzopardi, is a book of poems written originally in Maltese. Mario Azzopardi (born 1944) should not be confused with Mario Philip Azzopardi (who has made a career in film-making in Canada). The former Azzopardi is a poet, short story writer, university lecturer and cultural columnist and is the incumbent principal of the Malta Drama Centre. He made his first mark as a leading, radical poet in the nineteen-sixties. Naked as Water is a collection of verse by Mario Azzopardi, translated by Professor Grazio Falzon.

Summary

The poems in this collection have been arranged into five sections:

Nocturnes and Visions — poems of angst, nightmares, scenes from the village and city.
Anima — poems about women.
The Seven-Headed Dragon — poems about the larger-than-life poet and his quest.
Equinox — poems on religious themes.
Tombstone With No Epitaph — abstract poems, poems on geometric relationships, poems about poetry itself.

Reviews

"... Azzopardi's poems speak forcefully about Malt