Cinque Northern

Who is Cinque Northern?

CINQUE NORTHERN Listed in Filmmaker Magazine's Twenty-five New Faces of Independent Film, writer, director Cinque Northern draws from a unique history of personal experience. Born in Queens, New York, Cinque spent eight of his formative years in Africa, ten years in California and had traveled Europe by the age of fifteen. His exposure to vastly different worlds sparked a fascination with human behavior that would eventually fuel his writing. In 1994, he returned to New York to complete his Master of Fine Arts in Film from New York University. As a fourth generation artist, a writer and painter, Cinque took very naturally to filmmaking receiving the prestigious NYU Opportunity Fellowship in his first year of film school. He has since written and directed three short films, worked on over twenty films and interned for Spike Lee as well as Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films. Cinque's short films have received numerous awards including grants from Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. Cinque's narrative short, "The Apartment", earned recognition in eleven film festivals including The Hamptons International Film Festival, The Urban World Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film.