Hi, ii was born in Salerno, Italy.
I'm Scriptwriter, director and actor... so, sometime producer.
I got my real chance 1990 when (very young) Fellini gave me the role of Nestore in his last movie La voce della Luna, and the following year, in Massimo Troisi’s film I Thought It Was Love, for which I won the David di Donatello award as best supporting actor. I started writing comedy sketches and a variety of TV show episodes and wrote plays for the theatre. In 1994 I made my first film as director, L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci, a movie inspired to Andrea Pazienza’s comic strips. In 1998 i wrote my second feature film, Barbara, rewritten for the theatre a few years later. In the same year i wrote Tobia al Caffè, a film by Gianfranco Mingozzi. In 1999 i wrote the screenplay Outlaw, a film by Enzo Monteleone, nominated by the Italian National Sindacate of film Journalists amongst the best Italian scripts in 2000. My debut in literature in 2001, was with Quasi quattordici (Nearly fourteen), almost an autobiographic story, a diary of a child in a southern country of Italy. In November 2005 i won the Solinas Prize with Casamatta Vendesi, best comedy screenplay, and in 2010 i got the same prize finalist with the screenplay "5,6,7,8..." Sfiorarsi is my third film and was written together with the actress and scriptwriter Valentina Carnelutti.
I currently live in Barcelona (Spain) and "Rocco tiene tu nombre" is my 4th feature, an independent production by Gris Medio.
HERE the teaser...
Our last goal is the teaser of "Future Perfect" a film by Alfredo Arciero, written with Alessio Billi. PRE-PRODUCTION
LOG LINE here:
A story of A frail and alone girl, ex violinist, hides in a new city and escapes from her mysterious past. She makes friends with an extravagant neighbor, who helps her to believe in her musical talent but, disappointed from everybody, she restarts to make the same tragic mistakes of the past.
Check Out the website and the teaser. Enjoy.
Peggio per Me
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The Labyrinth
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Serás hombre
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Il viaggio
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Seguimi
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Ballad in Blood
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Film
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The spinning wheel
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Los Gigantes
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School Life
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The Big Pistachio
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L'esigenza di unirmi ogni volta con te
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by Tonino Zangardi (Drama)
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Rocco tiene tu nombre
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Writer It's a typical day like many others in the life of Bobo Benso. But this time, something breaks the routine: a stranger is installed in home... says his name is Rocco. Bobo slowly discovers has been overrun, excluded, evicted from his own life and is now in no man's land. Written by Terzouomo
Babbo Natale non viene da Nord
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by Maurizio Casagrande (Comedy)
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Refrán
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by Efthymia Zymvragaki (Short)
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Centomila Secondi
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Director "I would never have said it before". Since Stefano learnt he is HIV positive, his whole life changed... See full synopsis »
Giudizi universali
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by Riccardo Camilli (Comedy, Drama and Romance)
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100 metri dal paradiso
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La vita facile
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Actor An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover. (Italian with English subtitles).
Sarò sempre tuo padre
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TV Movie
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Cara, ti amo...
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5 (Cinque)
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Actor Some time after being imprisoned, five young delinquents from the Rome suburbs become friends and bind themselves by a blood path. A few years later, they set up a caper meant to pay big and to allow them to change their lives. Everything is meticulously designed down to the finest detail: the cash escort carrying five million euros for the benefit of a criminal organization is attacked and the money stolen and invested in a drug traffic. But the Russian mafia is on their heels... Written by Guy Bellinger
Giro giro tondo
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by Angelo Orlando (Short and Drama)
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Cosmonauta
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Film
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Actor Late '50s to early '60s, when the space war between the Soviet and US was fiercely going on, a fifteen-year-old member of the communist party, Luciana, develops her ideals while living with her bourgeois stepfather, and among male chauvinists in a communist group in Rome. Her only friend is her brother Arturo, who dreams of going to space but is unable to do so due to his epilepsy. Written by Pusan International Film Festival
Sandrine nella pioggia
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by Tonino Zangardi (Romance)
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Il giorno dopo
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(Short and Drama)
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Sweet Sweet Marja
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by Angelo Frezza (Comedy)
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Sfiorarsi
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Il principiante
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Gli insoliti ignoti
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TV Movie
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Fate come noi
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Film
by Francesco Apolloni
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Ma il portiere non c'è mai?
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Television
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Tutta la conoscenza del mondo
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Fede cieca
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(Short)
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Le sciamane
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Tobia al caffè
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Ormai è fatta!
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Writer The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as "the gentleman bandit" because he robbed banks with no violence, using only a toy gun. After a number of trials and escapes, in the summer of 1973 he is held in the Fossano jailhouse in Piedmont when he tries to escape once again. This time things turn for worse and he has to use a real gun and take two policemen as hostages. Written by Alessio F. Bragadini <alessio@sevenseas.org>
L'ultimo mundial
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by Tonino Zangardi (Comedy)
Actor Gianantoniomaria Casarotti poteva diventare un grande calciatore, ma rinunciò a tutto per amore. Così inizia la storia tragicomica del protagonista. Un giorno, durante un incontro di calcio, mentre si tuffava sul pallone per metterlo in rete, scorse una bellissima ragazza fra il pubblico. Distratto da tale visione, andò a sbattere violentemente con la testa contro al palo della porta di calcio. Non morì, ma entrò in catalessi. Medici, parenti, amici, cantanti e campioni sportivi cercarono di risvegliarlo, ma tutto sembrava inutile. Alla fine, solo una bellissima ragazza riuscì nell'intento. Written by rosebud6
Non lasciamoci più
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Television
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Panni sporchi
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by Mario Monicelli (Comedy)
Actor The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth. Written by Vice-4
Barbara
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by Angelo Orlando (Comedy)
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L'amico di Wang
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by Carl Haber (Comedy)
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L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci
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Actor E' l'ultimo giorno dell'anno e due amici decidono di trascorrere la notte in un modo speciale, per dimenticare delusioni sentimentali. Dopo alcune esperienze fallimentari, la notte si trasforma in un incubo, tra poliziotti folli e maniaci assassini. Il prossimo anno si andrà a letto dopo cena ! Written by rosebud6
Soldato ignoto
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Actor In 1943, a group of Italian and Allied soldiers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned villa. When they discover that they are in fact dead and that the villa is the starting point of their journey into afterlife, each character tells his life story, united in the belief that they have died unjustly in a senseless war. But the youngest, whose wife is expecting a child, wants absolutely to return to the world... Written by Anonymous
Palla di neve
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Actor A dignified actor, Billy Bolla, nears retirement and keeps close watch on his pension book, kept in a sealed bottle. On a cruise among Greek islands, while he's the on-board entertainment, he drops the bottle overboard and Snowball, a white dolphin, swallows it. Billy hires a local guide, Sidik, to help find Snowball, who has other pursuers: it has escaped from the pool of the sadistic Marcov, an arms merchant who's been training Snowball for a suicide mission. Billy and an Italian boy, Theo, who's mom is Marcov's maid, must save Snowball (and the cruise ship itself) from Marcov's deadly plan. They also help Theo's mom and keep their eye out for the pension book. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Bidoni
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by Felice Farina (Comedy)
Actor An eight-member crew mans a 20-metre yacht involved in a strange mission off the coast of Turkey. The memories of the captain, Giuseppe bring back to life the events that preceded their voyage. These include his separation from his wife, his work as a journalist and his move into a new apartment shared with young carabiniere officer Riccardo. Purely by chance, their lives are disrupted by the arrival of Sandra, the upstairs tenant in their building. A simple secretary Sandra is somehow involved with Giulivi, the arrogant undersecretary for the environment who has his finger in a multitude of different pies. One of his pursuits is the acquisition of "Rete Blu", the small independent TV network where Giuseppe works. Major suspicions have been aroused regarding Nautilus, the company where Sandra is employed, which is believed to be involved in some shady business with the dumping of toxic waste. Giuseppe is the right man to recover a computer disk containing the complete truth. ... Written by Anonymous
Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto
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America
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by Fabrizio Ruggirello (Drama)
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Vietato ai minori
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by Maurizio Ponzi
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Pensavo fosse amore invece era un calesse
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by Massimo Troisi (Comedy, Drama and Romance)
Actor Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
Ladri di futuro
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by Enzo De Caro (Comedy)
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Les secrets professionnels du Docteur Apfelgluck
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La voce della luna
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L'ultima scena
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Vesuvio Award. Napoli Film Festival. Best Movie. SFIORARSI.
(2007)
Golden Globes, Italy. NOMINATED. Best Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura) Ormai è fatta! (1999) Shared with: Enzo Monteleone
(1999)
Silver Ribbon. Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. NOMINATED. Best Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura) Ormai è fatta! (1999) Shared with: Enzo Monteleone
(1999)
Gramado Film Festival. WON. Best Supporting Actor (Melhor Ator Coadjuvante) Soldato ignoto (1995)
(1995)
David Donatello Award, WON. Best Supporting Actor (Migliore Attore non Protagonista) Pensavo fosse amore invece era un calesse
(1991)
Silver Ribbon. italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. NOMINATED. Best Supporting Actor (Migliore Attore Non Protagonista) Ladri di futuro
(1991)