Adriana Monti is an independent producer and filmmaker with more than 30 years’ experience.

Ruth J. Budd, is a video book in progress, produced by Adriana Monti in collaboration with the Academy and Archive of Autobiography  R.J.B. Fund.

She began her career in the context of a larger feminist movement in Italy in the 1970s. Her 1983 film Scuola Senza Fine (”School without an End”) has become one of her artistic trademarks. It reflects her collaborative and participatory style that encourages the subjects of the film to co-author and infuse their creativity into the final production.  The film follows a group of former housewives who completed a 150-hour secondary diploma course and then joined a research and study group.

Monti is the founder of the experimental film school Lanboratorio di Cinematografia – Albedo, where she taught and managed while she was finishing Scuola Senza Fine (”School without an End”) in 1983. She also taught film history and film production at the Women’s Free University and at the Film and Television School in Milan. In addition, Monti collaborated with the MUSIL Archive and Museum in Brescia (http://www.musilbrescia.it/home/) while producing films and documentaries.

She moved to Canada in 1996 and worked for 15 years as a reporter and story producer at OMNI Television – Rogers Media, before starting her own company A&Z Media Ltd.

In 2012, she produced Icework (a Mark Thompson’s Chalmers Award Project), and a series of shorts, and began development on Never too Late to Create in collaboration with a group of seniors at Christie Gardens residence in Toronto, Ontario (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkhGpXnLol8). In that same year, Scuola Senza Fine (”School without an End”) was presented at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

In 2010, her film, Three Women, Adapting Life, Adopting Lines was broadcast by OMNI. It was presented at the Mexico Film Festival, the Miami Women Film Festival, and the Italian-Canadian Writer Panel in Halifax (2012). Her previous videos and films are still shown in festivals around of the world and have won several awards. She was the principal of A&Z Media Ltd., a documentary film making company, now closed.

In 2008, Scuola Senza Fine (”School without an End”) was at “The Way Things Are” Works From The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Centre of Contemporary Art ‘Znaki Czasu’, Torun, Poland, Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain (2019), KW Institute for Contemporary Art- KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V. (2017), Madrid, Museum Reina Sofia (April 2012). 

Monti’s experimental feminist films from the 70’s: Sul Filo del Desidero, Ciclo Continuo, I Bagagli, Il Piacere del Testo, Andata e Ritorno were used by filmmaker Alina Marazzi in her film Vogliamo anche le rose (2008).  The Italian shorts Trame, Scuola Senza Fine (”School without an End”), Filo A Catena, Ritratti, and the fiction film Gentili Signore were well received at international and national film festivals (Pesaro, Bellaria, Sorrento, Catania, Milan, The Cairo, Annecy, Créteil, Brussels, Montreal, New York, Barcelona, Hamburg)