Cosima Spender
Cosima Spender is an Anglo-Italian film director, producer and writer who has worked in varying capacities on Dolce Vita Africana, Without Gorky and Palio. Palio won the best documentary editing award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
Spender was born in Italy but moved to England when she was fourteen. She received a degree in Anthropology and Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She then went on to enroll in the post-graduate documentary directing course at the National Film and Television School also in England.
Spender is married to and sometimes collaborates with the film editor Valerio Bonelli.
