Giorgio Mangiamele

Giorgio Mangiamele studied Fine Arts in Catania Italy Film Production at the Polizia Scientifica Rome Italy and journalism in the Faculty of Journalism ProDeo University in Rome Italy He emigrated to Australia in 1952 and became a Naturalised Australian citizen in 1957 Soon after arrival in Australia he set up a photographic studio in Carlton and started making films In the late fifties he took over a cinema school in Russell Street Melbourne which had run into difficulties and which later he shifted to his photographicfilm studio in Carlton Between 1979 and 1982 he held a contract with the PNG Government Prime Ministers Department making five films and thereby basically establishing a PNG Film Unit Over the next years until his death he worked on various unfulfilled scripts mainly one finally known as Sogeri Road