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Giovanni (also known as Gianni) Princigalli is an Italian-Canadien filmmaker, historian and activist. He was born in Bari on August 24.
His aunt Anna Maria Princigalli..[1] was one of the few women to hold the rank of officer in a partisan brigade and a pedagogist[2].
The other aunt Ada Princigalli was a journalist[3]. His father Giacomo was a political leader, as well as an exponent of the pacifist and cooperative movements.
Despite his father's work, his family lived for a long time in public housing and later in a state building for public employees. His father Giacomo, as a leader of the PSI first, and then of the PSIUP, received a salary equivalent to that of a skilled worker. When he was elected to the council of the Puglia region, he donated half of his salary to the party. The economic situation remained precarious for many years.[4].
In Italy Giovanni Princigalli was a member of the La Pantera student movement (for which he was a delegate to the national assembly in Florence). He was a leader of the ARCI (Italian Cultural and Recreative Association) and a student representative elected on a left-wing list to the board of directors of the University of Bari and the degree council of Political Science[5]
His first film, is the documentary Japigia Gagi - Roma stories[6], shot while living for a year in a Romanian Roma shack camp on the outskirts of Bari. The film's supervisor and financier, was sociologist and parliamentarianFranco Cassano, who was the director of his political science thesis. Later he had as film masters : Umberto Contarello, Giuseppe Piccioni, Annie Comolli, Carlo Alberto Pinelli.[7]
His films have been mentioned in various textbooks on social sciences and documentary filmmaking. They have been screened at festivals such as: RIDM, Cinéma d'Ales, African Diaspora International Film Festival of New York, Festival du film pan africain de Cannes, etc., and included in the programming of various cultural institutions and cinematheques around the world. Among his films that have received a good reception of critical and festivals are the documentaries: Japigia Gagi[8], J'ai fait mon propre courage[9] and Les fleurs à la fenêtre[10]. In 2024, he completed his first feature film, the documentary La chanson d'Aida, dedicated to Franco Cassano.[11]. It was world premiered at the Bari International Film festival in March 2024, anticipated by his short documentary Porajmos, In memory of Roma and Sinti Holocaust, edited with images, footage and music from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. These two last works were presented[12] in the Ethnocineca - International Documentary Film Festival Vienna on the 60th anniversary of the Roma and Sinti uprising in Auchwitz on May 16, 1944.
In Montreal, he is a frequent collaborator of director Paul Tana[13], of longtime screenwriter Bruno Ramirez[14] and of anthropologist Bob White.
As a history enthusiast, he has collaborated with institutions such as the Montreal History Museum and has published articles on the Roma holocaust[15], socialism[16], his partisan aunt and Italian immigrants in Montreal[17]
In 2020, an article he wrote in the French-Canadian newspaper Le Devoir sparked a debate and controversy around the presence of a fresco depicting Mussolini in Notre Dame de La Defense church à Montreal[18].
He is currently a member of the Red Unial network, which deals with cinema for children and adolescents in Latin America, based in Havana. Lastly, he is a member of the Quebec Solidaire party and the Canadian Social Democratic Party, NDP.[19]