Adriano Aprà (Rome, 18 November 1940 – Rome, 15 April 2024) was an Italian film critic, film historian, director, and cultural organizer, a central figure in the promotion of film culture in the second half of the 20th century. His work is inextricably linked to his editorship of the historic journal *Filmcritica*, through which he influenced generations of scholars with a rigorous and committed approach. As an organizer, he directed the Pesaro International Festival of New Cinema from 1990 to 1998, making it a reference point for experimental and research cinema, and subsequently the Locarno Film Festival. He was also the director of the Cineteca Nazionale (Italy's National Film Archive). Concurrently, he worked as an essayist and curator, publishing seminal volumes on filmmakers such as Roberto Rossellini, and as a director of experimental works, most notably *Olimpia agli amici* (1970). For his crucial contribution to Italian cinema, he received major awards, including the Pietro Bianchi Award at the Venice Film Festival.