Grazia Volpi

Grazia Volpi (29 March 1941 – 7 February 2020) was an Italian film producer. She was one of the first women in Italy who achieved the position of film producer. She started working in the late 1960s as general organizer and production manager on the set of the Taviani brothers' films.Then she became coordinator of "Una Cooperativa Cinematografica", a production company created by the Taviani brothers in 1973. In 1975 she made her debut as a film producer for the Aata cooperative with the films Quanto è bello lu murire acciso by Ennio Lorenzini and The Suspect by Francesco Maselli.In 2012 she won the David di Donatello for the best producer for the film Caesar Must Die, directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.