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"Between Strangers" was the first feature film Edoardo Ponti wrote and directed. It was produced by Gabriella Martinelli and starring an ensemble cast which includes Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Gerard Depardieu, Pete Postlethwaite and Malcolm McDowell. The film premiered in 2002 at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. It won 5 Genie Nominations, the Canadian equivalent to the Academy Award. Mr. Ponti earned the best first time filmmaker award from the Newport Beach Film Festival as well as an award of merit from the Los Angeles Italian Film Festival. Mr. Ponti’s other film credits include an acting starring role in the 1984 film “Aurora” directed by Maurizio Ponzi, for which Edoardo Ponti earned a “Nastro d’Argento” nomination, Italy’s prestigious film critics prize. In 1997, Mr. Ponti wrote, produced and directed “Liv”. Executive produced by Robert Altman as well as Michelangelo Antonioni, the short film was premiered at the 1998 Venice International Film Festival. In 1995, Mr. Ponti produced and directed Eugene Ionesco’s play “The Lesson”. In 1996, he then went on to adapt for the stage, produce and direct Nick Bantock’s best-selling epistolary trilogy “Griffin & Sabine” at the Spoleto Theatre Festival in Italy. In 1998, he wrote and directed an opera with renown Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner entitled ”Requiem for my friend” for which Warner Bros. awarded Ponti a platinum record. Fluent in English, French and Italian, Edoardo Ponti worked under the mentorship of master filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni from September 1997 to March 1998. In 1994 he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. In 1997, he went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Directing & Production from the prestigious University of Southern California School of Cinema & Television. Mr. Ponti is presently working on two motion picture biopics: the first, written by Oscar nominated Jeff Maguire, is the story of Jennifer Harbury, the American civil rights attorney who in the 1990’s helped stop Guatemala’s decades long civil war. The second traces the love story between America’s greatest painter Georgia O’Keeffe and her mentor Alfred Stieglitz.