Gaetano Di Vaio
{{Short description|Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1968–2024)}}
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| name = Gaetano Di Vaio
| image = Gaetano Di Vaio.jpg
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| caption = Di Vaio in 2015
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1968|02|27}}
| birth_place = Naples, Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2024|05|22|1968|02|27}}
| death_place = Giugliano in Campania, Italy
| nationality = Italian
| other_names =
| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter
Actor
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Gaetano Di Vaio (27 February 1968 – 22 May 2024) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.{{cite news |last=De Luca|first=Paolo|date=22 May 2024|title=Gaetano Di Vaio, morto il produttore e attore di Gomorra: cinema in lutto per l'ex ragazzo del Bronx|trans-title= |url=https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/05/22/news/morto_gaetano_di_vaio_napoli_incidente-423073592/|language=Italian|work=La Repubblica|location=Naples|access-date=23 May 2024}}
Biography
Born in the Piscinola of Naples on 27 February 1968, Di Vaio's family was very poor.{{cite web|url=http://www.einaudi.it/libri/autore/gaetano-di-vaio/0010074|title=Gaetano Di Vaio|work=Giulio Einaudi Editore|language=Italian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719084015/http://www.einaudi.it/libri/autore/gaetano-di-vaio/0010074|archivedate=19 July 2013}} His father worked as a caretaker at a school in the outskirts of Naples.{{cite news |last=Mastrangelo|first=Mimmo|date=23 May 2024|title=Dal carcere al set, Di Vaio arriva al festival di Roma. Detenuto a Poggioreale grazie al cinema il regista napoletano ha girato le spalle ad anni di spaccio e tossicodipendenza|trans-title= |url=https://www.lanotiziagiornale.it/dal-carcere-al-set-di-vaio-arriva-al-festival-di-roma-detenuto-a-poggioreale-grazie-al-cinema-il-regista-napoletano-ha-girato-le-spalle-ad-anni-di-spaccio-e-tossicodipendenza/|language=Italian|work=La Notizia Giornale|location= |access-date=23 May 2024}} Due to his family's economic circumstances, he was forced to live away at a special school, where he suffered from abuse and violence. After leaving school, he turned to a life of drug trafficking and crime, although he never joined the Camorra.{{cite news |last=Rijtano|first=Rosita|date=24 June 2012|title=I volti di Napoli|trans-title= |url=https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/06/24/news/i_volti_di_napoli-37870528/|language=Italian|work=La Repubblica|location=Naples|access-date=23 May 2024}} He was eventually sent to the {{ill|Poggioreal Prison|fr|Prison de Poggioreale}}, where he stayed until his release in 1998.
In 2001, Di Vaio joined the theatre company founded by Peppe Lanzetta. Afterwards, he founded the cultural association Figli del Bronx, which later became a filmmaking company.{{cite web|url=http://www.bibliocamorra.altervista.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=389&Itemid=93|title=
Nota bio-bibliografica di Gaetano Di Vaio|work=Biblioteca Digitale sulla Camorra e Cultura della Legalità|language=Italian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010125318/http://www.bibliocamorra.altervista.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=389&Itemid=93|archivedate=10 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.figlidelbronx.it/2-chisiamo.html|title=La nostra missione|work=Figli del Bronx|language=Italian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203065900/http://www.figlidelbronx.it/2-chisiamo.html|archivedate=3 February 2016}} In his works, Di Vaio described the problems of the slums and the world of drug trafficking and addiction, focusing on minorities, migrants, youth unemployment, and the fight against crime.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=21 August 2013|title=Recensione NON MI AVRETE MAI di Gaetano Di Vaio e Guido Lombardi|trans-title= |url=https://thrillerpages.blogspot.com/2013/08/recensione-non-mi-avrete-mai-di-gaetano.html|language=Italian|work=thrillerpages.blogspot.it|location= |access-date=23 May 2024}}{{cite news |last= |first= |date=15 August 2013|title="Il bandito che dice no al sistema". Gaetano di Vaio ospite del FattoTv|trans-title= |url=http://tv.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2013/08/15/bandito-che-dice-no-al-sistema-gaetano-di-vaio-ospite-del-fattotv/242297|url-status=dead|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20130818004229/http://tv.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2013/08/15/bandito-che-dice-no-al-sistema-gaetano-di-vaio-ospite-del-fattotv/242297|archivedate=18 August 2013|language=Italian|work=il Fatto Quotidiano|location= |access-date=23 May 2024}}
Di Vaio died from injuries he sustained in a scooter accident in Giugliano in Campania on 22 May 2024, aged 56.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=22 May 2024|title=The Tragic End of Gaetano Di Vaio: A Tale of Redemption and Loss|trans-title= |url=https://www.ilmattino.it/en/the_tragic_end_of_gaetano_di_vaio_a_tale_of_redemption_and_loss-8133960.html|language= |work=Il Mattino|location= |access-date=23 May 2024}}
Filmography
=As a director=
- Il loro Natale (2010)
- Interdizione perpetua (2012)
=As a producer=
- {{ill|Sotto la stessa luna|it}} (2005)
- {{ill|4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo|it}} (2006)
- Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009)
- Vomero Travel (2009)
- {{ill|Radici (film)|it|Radici (film 2011)|lt=Radici}} (2011)
- Là-bas: A Criminal Education (2011)
- L’uomo con il megafono (2012)
- Take Five (2013)
- Per amor vostro (2015)
- Neapolitan Staycation (2023)
=Television=
- Gomorrah (2014)
References
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External Links
- {{imdb name|2793755}}
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Category:Italian film directors