Member of the 'Official Competition' jury in the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009.
Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival in 1979.
Supporter of the center-left Italian Democratic Party (PD) led by Walter Veltroni.
She had intended to become an archaeologist, a profession she soon abandoned in order to pursue her passion for the moving image.
She graduated in literature and philology at Bologna University in 1960, writing a dissertation on the fifteenth-century poet and nobleman Marsilio Pio.