Title: Looking for Alibrandi (novel)
Content:  Looking for Alibrandi is the debut novel of Australian author Melina Marchetta, published in 1992. A film adaptation was made in 2000.
Title: Looking for Alibrandi (novel)
Content:  Looking for Alibrandi (2000) starred Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, Anthony LaPaglia as her father, Michael Andretti, and Kick Gurry as her boyfriend, Jacob Coote. Melina Marchetta wrote the screenplay.
Title: Looking for Alibrandi (film)
Content:  Looking for Alibrandi is a 2000 Australian film directed by Kate Woods from a script by Melina Marchetta based on her 1992 novel of the same name. The film is set in 1990s Sydney, New South Wales and features a cast of Australian actors, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character; Anthony LaPaglia as her father, Michael Andretti, who left her and her mother before her birth; prolific NSW languages teacher known as "Ms Pipio" as a side character, and Kick Gurry as Josie's love interest, Jacob Coote. The film won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film in 2000.
Title: Melina Marchetta
Content:  Her first novel, Looking for Alibrandi was released in 1992 with a first print-run sellout within two months of its release. Published in 14 countries, including 11 translated editions, Looking for Alibrandi swept the pool of literary awards for young adult fiction in 1993 including the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. Dubbed "the most stolen library book", the novel has sold more than half a million copies worldwide and was followed by her film adaptation of the same title released in 1999, Looking for Alibrandi.
Title: Looking for Alibrandi (film)
Content:  Looking for Alibrandi begins light-heartedly, and conveys Josie's character through her interactions with friends and family. However, the optimism initially associated with Josie fades as she struggles to cope with her final year of school, including the racist attitude of one girl in particular, Carly Bishop (Leeanna Walsman), the suicide of her crush, John Barton (Matthew Newton), and the meeting with Michael Andretti (Anthony LaPaglia), her absent father, who has only just learned of her existence upon returning to Sydney for work. She is also in continual conflict with her grandmother, Katia Alibrandi (Elena Cotta). However, these complications are seemingly resolved quickly, in keeping with Josie's brusque and forthright outlook 
Title: Looking for Alibrandi (film)
Content:  The film, while not well known in international markets, has received critical acclaim for its insights into both the second-generation-migrant experience and the universal human condition. Looking for Alibrandi was Kate Woods' directorial debut in film; Woods was acclaimed for "giving [the film's] multicultural terrain the true respect and depth it deserves." Furthermore, prolific NSW languages teacher Ms Pipio's debut role was in this movie, she was acclaimed for "generating a unique community spirit and making the movie accessible to students across the country." She later received the GCSK medallion for educational contributions to film and media in Australia.
Title: Looking for Alibrandi (novel)
Content: Won - CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (1993) ; Won - Books I Love Best Yearly: Older Readers Award (1995) ; Won - Books I Love Best Yearly: Older Readers Award (2000) 
Title: Melina Marchetta
Content:  Marchetta wrote the screenplay for the film Looking for Alibrandi (1999), a film starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. The film was a box office success, winning five awards including an AFI award and an Independent Film Award for best screenplay, as well as the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award. In 2016, Marchetta announced on her blog she had completed the screenplay for a film adaptation of On the Jellicoe Road. In December 2019 Werner Film Productions, ZDF Enterprises and Wild Sheep Content announced an 8-part TV series. Marchetta will write the pilot with writers Samantha Strauss, Sarah Walker and Angela Betzien also attached.
Title: Pia Miranda
Content:  in the ABC television series 'Bondi Banquet', playing Jo Tognetti. This was the starting point for Miranda's future success within the Australian film and television industry, quickly being chosen for the role of Josephine Alibrandi in the hugely successful Australian movie Looking for Alibrandi, directed by Kate Woods in 1999. The movie was based on the novel written by Melina Marchetta in 1992, where seventeen-year-old Josephine Alibrandi deals with the stresses of Year Twelve, her illegitimacy, the reunion with her father, new-found companionship, the death of her close friend and life as a third-generation migrant in contemporary Australian society. Miranda 
Title: Looking for Alibrandi (film)
Content: Best Film&ndash;presented to producer Robyn Kershaw ; Best Lead Actress&ndash;Pia Miranda ; Best Supporting Actress&ndash;Greta Scacchi ; Best Adapted Screenplay&ndash;Melina Marchetta (adapted from her own novel) ; Best Film Editing&ndash;Martin Connor Looking for Alibrandi won five awards at the 2000 AFI Awards: 

Question: Who is the author of Looking for Alibrandi?
Answer: Melina Marchetta.
Carmelina Marchetta.