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Screenwriter Cecchi D'Amico has had a long and fruitful career in Italian cinema. She is particularly known for her work which has helped Italian neo-realism transform into the less pessimistic New Italian Cinema: for example her neo-realistic classic Ladri di biciclette (1948). Cecchi D'Amico has worked with Italy's most important directors including Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Maselli, and Franco Zeffirelli. She and director Luchino Visconti have been a director/screenwriter team for many years; she co-wrote almost all of Visconti's post-neorealism films including Bellissima (1951). All in all, Cecchi D'Amico has penned approximately 100 films.