Birthday:
01-24-1958 (67 years)
Birthplace:
Torino
Their works
- Release swap_vert
- Title swap_vert
- Ratings swap_vert
close
The Past Is a Foreign Land
Director of Photography
event 2008 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
Il mio paese
Director of Photography
event 2006
top_panel_open
A journey from the south to the north of Italy covering the track of the legendary Joris Ivens documentary "L'Italia non è un paese povero".
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
"B" Camera Operator
event 2012 star_border 7.2
top_panel_open
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."
The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins
Director of Photography
event 2021 star_border 6
top_panel_open
18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power and an unmeasurable hate for witches. The intervention of the sweet and powerful Dolores, a good witch who has devoted her life to children, saves Paola from being burned at the stake. Through a magical apprenticeship, breakneck pursuits, incredible transformations and a whole lot of trouble, Paola will discover that fate has something really special in store for her… And so the legend begins.
Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
Director of Photography
event 2004 star_border 6.5
top_panel_open
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
Maximum Velocity (V-Max)
Director of Photography
event 2002 star_border 6
top_panel_open
In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, but gets himself involved with the latter's former girlfriend.
Materiale resistente
Director of Photography
event 1995
top_panel_open
Documentary about the concert for the 50th anniversary of Italy's liberation from Fascism, held in Correggio on April 25, 1995.
The Thing
Director of Photography
event 1990 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
1989. Amidst the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) – the largest of its kind in Western Europe – announces that is going to change name, identity and renew itself into a new 'Thing'. The documentary is a selection of the debates that took place in various PCI chapters across Italy after the historic decision.
Lecture 21
Director of Photography
event 2008 star_border 6.2
top_panel_open
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Rust
Director of Photography
event 2011 star_border 6
top_panel_open
In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. The children know who the suspect is but knowing that the adults will never believe them, they decide to keep quiet. When one of their friends sister disappear, they know they have to take the matter into their own hands.
Il giorno e la notte
Director of Photography
event 2021 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
After a terrorist attack in Rome, the government urges the population not to leave their houses: several couples clash during isolation. Shot during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
Italia '90: lavori in corso
Director of Photography
event 1990
top_panel_open
Independent documentary about the hidden side of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Alla Fiat era così
Director of Photography
event 1990
top_panel_open
Several Fiat workers tell the story of their life, work, and struggle at Fiat in the 1960's and 1970's. At the same time, memory makes something alive again in one of the worker's solitary gestures. However, twenty years later....
Remzija
Director of Photography
event 1992
top_panel_open
Documentary about homelessness in Turin. Shot on Betacam.
A Street in Palermo
Director of Photography
event 2013 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn than the ferocity of the men who surround them. For, as in every duel, it is a question of life or death... It’s a Sunday afternoon. The sirocco is blowing pitilessly in Palermo when Rosa and Clara lose their way in the streets of the city and end up in a sort of alley: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same moment, another car driven by Samira, crammed with members of the Calafiore family, arrives from the opposite direction and enters the same street.
Banana
Director of Photography
event 2015 star_border 6.4
top_panel_open
Giovanni, known as "Banana" because of his mania for wearing a Brazil jersey, is a 14-year-old boy trying not to give up on his dreams in a world of frustrated, giving up and courageless people.
Out of Competition "Sezione Cinema al parco" Giffoni 2015
3.87
Director of Photography
event 2005 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.
Da zero a dieci
Director of Photography
event 2002 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
Twenty years after tragedy cut their graduation trip short, four friends return to that destination to finish what they started in 1980. However, as they find out, you can't repeat the past.
The Mute Man of Sardinia
Director of Photography
event 2022 star_border 5.8
top_panel_open
Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his childhood, after his brother Michele was murdered he joined forces with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, and put at his service his fury and his amazing aim, becoming a highly feared assassin. The State and the Church try to stem the wave of terror and only after more than 70 deaths, the peace of Aggius arrives. At first, Bastiano finds peace in his love for a pastor's daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him the devil's son when he was just a boy, someone like him cannot be found innocent. Thus, he chooses to confront his own destiny.
Orlando
Director of Photography
event 2022 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.
Una squadra
Cinematography
event 2022 star_border 7.3
top_panel_open
The story of the Italian national tennis team that won the Davis Cup in ’76 and reached the final three more times in the following years.
Johnny the Partisan
Director of Photography
event 2000 star_border 6
top_panel_open
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
Now or Never
Director of Photography
event 2003 star_border 5.5
top_panel_open
2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful events of the G8 summit in Genoa.
Welcome to San Salvario
Cinematography
event 1999
top_panel_open
In San Salvario, the area in Turin with the largest number of immigrants, an unemployed photographer adapts himself to working for them. They are eager to send their families and friends at home pictures proving their success in Italy. After being fired from the local newspaper and practically penniless, the protagonist gets more sympathy from the San Salvario foreign people than from his fellow citizens, who seem to be only interested in the profit they can make with multi-ethnic contacts.
The Human Cargo
Director of Photography
event 2012 star_border 6.6
top_panel_open
On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the “Vlora”. Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted “Italia, Italia”, making the victory sign. On 7 August 1991, the ship, returning from Cuba, the “Vlora” had arrived at the port of Durrës with 10,000 tons of sugar in its hold. Work on unloading the sugar was underway when an enormous throng of thousands of people suddenly assailed the ship, forcing the captain to head for Italy. The next morning, waiting for the “Vlora” was an incredulous and stunned city and an empty football stadium where the Albanians were held before being sent back home. Twenty-one years have passed since that day. Most of the people who boarded that ship were sent back to Albania, but the crossings continued and many of them had another go. Today, 4.5 million foreigners live in Italy.
Andron
Director of Photography
event 2015 star_border 3.8
top_panel_open
A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive, as the outside world watches.
Filumena Marturano
Director of Photography
event 2022 star_border 7.8
top_panel_open
Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that one of her children is his, making him obsessed to know which one.
Primo Levi's Journey
Director of Photography
event 2006 star_border 5.9
top_panel_open
In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
Sun, Heart, Love
Director of Photography
event 2017 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.
Texas
Director of Photography
event 2005 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
Enrico, Carlo, Davide, Cinzia, Elisa. Three Saturdays in the life of a group of friends in a quiet town in Piedmont. One night in November, one in December close to Christmas, the third in February. A look at their lives and their daily problems, more or less important, which will lead someone to make even an extreme gesture.
Cosmonaut
Director of Photography
event 2009 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Against the backdrop of the space race between the Soviets and the US, a 15-year-old girl struggles to affirm her political and gender identity in 1960s Italy.
Discovery at Dawn
Director of Photography
event 2013 star_border 5.2
top_panel_open
Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought.
Before the Night
Director of Photography
event 2018 star_border 6.9
top_panel_open
The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.
The Armadillo's Prophecy
Director of Photography
event 2018 star_border 6.1
top_panel_open
A 27-year-old suburban slacker entertains daily conversations bordering on paradoxical with his conscience, which manifests itself in the form of a human-sized armadillo. Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Zerocalcare.
L'uomo privato
Cinematography
event 2007 star_border 6
top_panel_open
Between Turin and Pisa unfolds the life of a socially and professionally successful university professor of law. Endowed with great intelligence and an elusive charm, the man and the professor lead a “withdrawn” existence that occasionally borders on the beds of casual lovers. Determined to control reality and keep it carefully at arm's length, he becomes involved despite himself in the suicide death of a student. The boy, obsessed with the professor's life, has painstakingly recorded his lectures, his behavior, his habits...
18 Presents
Director of Photography
event 2020 star_border 7.4
top_panel_open
Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
Il regno
Director of Photography
event 2020 star_border 5.6
top_panel_open
The king of a secret modern-time Medieval kingdom leaves his throne in inheritance to his son, who struggles to lead the kingdom in fight for its independence from the Italian state.
The Macaluso Sisters
Director of Photography
event 2020 star_border 7.1
top_panel_open
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
Alice è in paradiso
Cinematography
event 2002
top_panel_open
Documentary about the short life of 'Radio Alice' (one of the first and most influential free radios in Italy), and its surreal political/dadaist milieu.
Felicità Cannibale
Cinematography
event 2024
top_panel_open
When Antonella discovers the contents of her father’s will, she is left speechless: if she wants the substantial inheritance he left her, she will have to eat a spoonful of his ashes. But the notary, an inflexible woman dedicated to her role, does not seem as surprised, she who has seen even worse in her career. In a very long day in which the coordinates of reality seem to have shifted, Antonella will have to make a difficult decision: accept her father’s request or reject it, losing her only chance to start over? After all, happiness is nothing but a system of compromises.
Show more expand_more
keyboard_double_arrow_down