Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is known for his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17, and, most recently, returns with the première of Padre Pio (2022). He returns this year for the screening of Bad Lieutenant and several conversations with the public, that include the screening of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
