Davide Ferrario born 26 June 1956 is an Italian film director screenwriter and author Born in Casalmaggiore Cremona Ferrario graduated in AngloAmerican literature then he began to work in film distribution and he contributed to import in Italy many indie films by John Sayles Jim Jarmusch Susan Seidelman Godfrey Reggio He also collaborated as a film critic with the cinema magazine Cineforum and he wrote a monograph about Rainer Werner Fassbinder After collaborating to several screenplays Ferrario made his directorial debut in 1987 with the short film Non date da mangiare agli animali and in 1989 he directed his first feature film the neonoir The End of the Night His 2004 film After Midnight entered the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival in which Ferrario won the Caligari Film Prize and the Don Quixote Award Also a novelist his 1995 debut novel Dissolvenza al nero was later adapted into a film Fade to Black by Oliver Parker