Graham Shirley profiles Giorgio Mangiamele, whose unique contribution to Australian filmmaking is only now being acknowledged.

'Giorgio Mangiamele’s work has left an expanding legacy. Interest has grown in his pioneering the making of art films in Australia as well as the strong and direct way in which he tackled immigrant themes at a time when other filmmakers took a more benign, even celebratory view of this major postwar change to Australian society.’

Read the Portrait here. It includes a Screenography and stills gallery. See also Rediscovering Mangiamele on the NFSA website.

The NFSA has restored four of his films, soon to be available on DVD for the first time.

Three Mangiamele films are screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 6 and 7 August. Screening details.