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- Actress
Giada Colagrande was born in Italy in 1975. She studied in Italy, Switzerland and Australia. In 1995 she began making video art and documentaries on contemporary art. From 1997 to 2000 she joined the art project VOLUME, making a series of video portraits of 7 contemporary artists: Jannis Kounellis, Alfredo Pirri, Bernhard Rüdiger, Nunzio, Raimund Kummer, Gianni Dessí, Maurizio Savini and Sol Lewitt. She made three short films: Carnaval (1998), "Fetus - 4 Brings Death" (1999), and "n.3" (2000). In 2001 she wrote, directed and starred in her first feature film Open My Heart (2002) (Open My Heart), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2002, and then was selected by many international film festivals, such as the Tribeca Film Festival 2003, in competition, and Paris Cinema 2003, where it won the award 'Prix de l'avenir'. Giada was also nominated for Best New Director at the Silver Ribbon 2003. Open my Heart was released in Italy by Lucky Red and in the USA by Strand Releasing. In 2005 she directed her second feature Before It Had a Name (2005), which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Willem Dafoe. The film opened at the Venice Film Festival 2005, was then showed in San Sebastian Film Festival and various other international festivals. It was distributed worldwide by Millennium with the title 'Black Widow'. In 2010 she wrote and directed her third feature A Woman (2010), starring Willem Dafoe, Jess Weixler and Stefania Rocca. It also premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2010 and then screened at many other international film festivals. In 2012 she made the short film The Woman Dress (2012), for the Prada series "The Miu Miu Women's Tales", and the feature film Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (2012), a documentary on the opera directed by Robert Wilson, based on Marina Abramovic's biography, starring Willem Dafoe, Antony Hegarty and Abramovic herself, which was screened at MoMA in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Both films premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2012. In 2013 the film The Abramovic Method (2013), which continues her collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramovic, was presented at the Venice Film Festival and went on to being shown in art museums around the world. In 2016 she wrote, directed and performed in Padre (2016) starring herself, Willem Dafoe, Franco Battiato and Marina Abramovic. After premiering at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (Mexico), the film is still showing in film festivals around the world, while being theatrically released by The Open Reel. As an actress, she has also performed in Abel Ferrara's Pasolini (2014) and in Wes Anderson's short film Castello Cavalcanti (2013). In 2017 Giada made her debut as a singer, writer & composer in the project THE MAGIC DOOR, created with Arthuan Rebis and Vincenzo Zitello.- Born in Pescara, Sara Serraiocco developed from a young age a passion for dance and cinema, and she later worked as a dance teacher too. She moved to Rome in 2010 where she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Italian National Film School.
After appearing in one episode of crime series R.I.S. Roma, Serraiocco made her film debut in 2013, starring in (the feature film) Salvo, awarded The Critics' Week Grand Prix during 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Her performance as a blind girl brought up in the suburbs of Palermo got her several awards including the Italian Golden Globe for best actress and the "Guglielmo Biraghi" Nastro d'Argento as best new talent.
In 2014 she was picked by director Liliana Cavani to play the role of Saint Clare of Assisi in the mini series "Francesco".
In 2015, Sara starred in the film Cloro, directed by Lamberto Sanfelice. The film was presented both at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and at the 65th Berlinale (Generation section). She was nominated best actress at the 2015 Globo d'oro award for this role. During the same year she was chosen by Enrico Pau to play the role of Tecla in the film Accabadora co-starring Donatella Finocchiaro and Barry Ward. Shortly after she was invited to be part of the jury at Independent section of the 2015 Rome Film Fest.
Serraiocco was awarded the "Shooting Star" award as best European talent during the Berlin Film Fest. Meanwhile, she landed the lead role in Marco Danieli's debut feature film La Ragazza del Mondo (aka Worldly Girl), that was presented within the GdA review during the Venice Film Festival. Her performance in this film granted her several recognitions: the "Premio Pasinetti" (the National guild of Film critics' award) as Best Actress and the nomination for Best Actress both in the 2017 edition of Globo d'oro and Nastri d'argento. In addition to this she won the golden Ciak alongside with Michele Riondino as best acting duo of the year.
She landed the female leading role of Nora in Non è un paese per giovani directed by Giovanni Veronesi in 2017 whose subject was inspired by the radio show hosted by Danieli on Radio 2. The film got Serraiocco the nomination as Best Lead Actress in the 2017 Nastri d'Argento.
During the same year she played the main character in Cosimo Gomez's debut film Brutti e Cattivi that was presented in the "Orizzonti"section of the 2017 Venice Film Fest. Serraiocco has been cast as a series regular in the TV series Counterpart directed by Morten Tyldum, where she played the role of Baldwin alongside Academy Award winner J. K. Simmons. Her performance in Counterpart gained her a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Autostraddle TV Awards.
Later in 2017, she returned to Italy to shoot Alessandro Capitani's debut film In viaggio con Adele, which was presented at the 2018 Rome Film Festival. Still in that year, she got back to Los Angeles to shoot the second season of Counterpart (aired in January 2019). After that, she was chosen by director Renato De Maria to play the lead female role in his movie "Lo spietato"(2019).
In 2019, she was chosen as a member of the international jury at the Kiev film festival, Molodist 48. In September of the same year she took the role of Marica in Non Odiare, directed by Mauro Mancini. The film was presented at the 2020 Venice Film Festival (Critic's Week). Most recently, she was cast in the leading female role in Lo Sto Bene, directed by Donato Rotunno which was presented at the Rome Film Festival 2020.
In 2021 she landed the role of Emilia in "Il primo giorno della mia vita", directed by Paolo Genovese( post-production). During the same year she got the role of Giulia in "Siccità", directed by Paolo Virzì (production). Later she was cast in "Il signore delle formiche", directed by Gianni Amelio.During the same year she landed the female lead role in "Il ritorno di Casanova", directed by Oscar-winning Grabriele Salvatores.
In 2022 she was chosen as a member of the jury at the the 72nd annual Berlin International Film Festival ( Shooting Stars award). - Lucrezia Guidone is an Italian actress. She studied at National Academy of drama Silvio D'Amico in Rome and at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. She worked in theatre with Luca Ronconi for several years winning many prestigious awards such as the Ubu Award for the role of the Stepdaughter in Pirandello's play "Six characters in search of an author". After that she stars in Francesco Bruni's film "Noi4" winning the International Flaiano Prize. Her credits include the Netflix miniseries "Fidelity", and the movie "The girl in the fog" .
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Floria Sigismondi is a photographer and director. Apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing music videos. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People", has been replicated by a great number of directors since. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Her family, including her sister Antonella, moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada when she was two. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting. Later, from 1987 she studied painting and illustration at the Ontario College of Art, today's Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD). When she took a photography course, she became obsessed once more, and graduated with a photography major. Floria started a career as a fashion photographer. She came to directing music videos when she was approached by the production company The Revolver Film Co., and directed music videos for a number of Canadian bands. Her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works, located in sceneries she once described as "entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings", attracted a number of very prominent musicians. With her photography and sculpture installations she had solo exhibitions in Hamilton and Toronto, New York, Brescia, Italy, Göteborg, Sweden and London. Her photographs also were included in numerous group exhibitions, together with those of photographers like Cindy Sherman and Joel-Peter Witkin. The German art press Die Gestalten Verlag has published two monographs of her photography, "Redemption" (1999) and "Immune" (2005).- Cinzia de Ponti was born on 3 October 1960 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress, known for The New York Ripper (1982), Devil Fish (1984) and Killer contro killers (1985).
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Editor
Michele D'Attanasio was born on 18 June 1976 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a cinematographer and editor, known for Freaks Out (2021), Capri-Revolution (2018) and Caravaggio's Shadow (2022).- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Luis César Amadori was born on 28 May 1903 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Honeysuckle (1938), La pasión desnuda (1953) and Almafuerte (1949). He was married to Zully Moreno. He died on 5 June 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Giulia Rubini was discovered by the director Luciano Emmer who spotted her photo in her art photographer uncle's shop window. Emmer, casting for a heroine for his comedy High School (1954), auditioned 18-year old Giulia who passed the test and went on to star in the picture. Giulia then tended to be typecast as naïve ingénues in romantic drama (Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955)) or comedy (La banda degli onesti (1956)). She had a string of supporting roles in foreign productions (El Hakim (1957), The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)) and peplum (Goliath and the Barbarians (1959), David and Goliath (1960), with Orson Welles as King Saul) and rounded off her career as female leads in a trio of spaghetti westerns (Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966), Adios, Hombre (1967), Uno straniero a Paso Bravo (1968)). At her most ornamental in colourful adventure spectacles, filmed in exotic locales, Giulia enhanced pictures like Edgar G. Ulmer's Atlantean fantasy Journey Beneath the Desert (1961), the swashbuckler Rage of the Buccaneers (1961) (as Ricardo Montalban's love interest) and, as an Indian girl, in the German-Italian co-production Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964), set against the background of the British Raj versus a sect of fanatical Kali worshippers. The latter was produced by Bavaria Film and released in the U.S. by Columbia, who offered Giulia a studio contract. However, having just learned of her second pregnancy and wanting to remain in Italy, she turned the offer down, choosing family life over career.
- Francesco Panzieri is an Italian-American visual effects compositing artist and supervisor based in Los Angeles, CA. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Visual Effects Society. After developing an interest in film-making and special effects from an early age, Panzieri earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Film Science from the International Academy of Image Arts in L'Aquila, Italy. He then enrolled in a one-year 3D-animation & visual effects conservatory program at the New York Film Academy in New York City, NY. To date, Panzieri has contributed to over 30 feature films and 75 television series. His most notable work includes: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 88th Academy Awards), Avengers: Infinity War (nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards), Dune: Part One (94th Academy Award recipient for Best Visual Effects) and Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. Panzieri has directly collaborated with many renowned production companies such as Disney, Marvel Studios, LucasFilm, Netflix, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Bad Robot and Lionsgate as well as acclaimed visual effects studios Digital Domain.
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- Soundtrack
Gabriele D'Annunzio was born on 12 March 1863 in Pescara, Abruzzi e Molise, Italy [now Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Samson and the Slave Queen (1963), La luz, tríptico de la vida moderna (1917) and La crociata degli innocenti (1917). He was married to Maria Hardouin di Gallese. He died on 1 March 1938 in Gardone Riviera, Lombardy, Italy.- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
He is a film producer, director and distributor. He was born in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) in currently lives in Rome, where he graduated cum laude in 2016 in Modern Literature with the thesis "Virtual reality and image culture in the civilization of entertainment". He founded the production company called Il Varco and produced 22 short films, 4 feature films and the edition of 7 books. He's the artistic director of Il Varco - International Short Film Festival, Italy. He also founded the Short Days in Rome and the Abruzzi's film screening "New Abruzzi Cinema" in Pescara and the film distribution Gargantua Film. His film productions were featured in more than 150 festivals all around the world including Cannes Quinzaine, Locarno, Venice SIC@SIC, Camerimage, Rotterdam IFFR, In the Palace, Drama, Cyprus, Rome Film Festival. As a director, he shot "Onyricon" in 2015, "Spettri" in 2017, "Materia Celeste" in 2019 and "Polepole" in 2021. In 2020 he worked alongside Werner Herzog for his film Accelerator in Leticia, Colombia, in which he developed the filmed correspondence "Letters to Herzog" and the short film "Flores del precipicio". He was among the finalists of Premio Zavattini 2021/2022. His short film "Happy New Year, Jim" premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. In 2023, he was chosen to participate in Locarno Spring Academy with Radu Jude where he shot "Eschaton Ad", that premiered in Locarno that same year. In August 2023, he participated to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Creator's Lab in Yucatan, Mexico. In November 2023, his debut feature documentary "A Stranger Quest" was presented at the 41. Turin Film Festival. He was invited to be part of Berlinale Talents in 2024 and he is a voting member of EFA - European Film Academy as since 2024.- Production Designer
Alessandro Marvelli was born on 21 August 1982 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. Alessandro is a production designer, known for Running for Grace (2018), The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016) and The Bygone (2019).- Writer
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ennio Flaiano was born on 5 March 1910 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for 8½ (1963), La Dolce Vita (1960) and Nights of Cabiria (1957). He was married to Rosetta Rota. He died on 20 November 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Writer
- Editor
- Director
Massimo D'Anolfi was born on 7 January 1974 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a writer and editor, known for The Castle (2011), Materia oscura (2013) and Spira Mirabilis (2016).- Ludovica Rubino was born on September 28th, 2003, in Pescara and grew up in Rome. Her family wasn't an artistic family, so she discovered theatre at elementary school, when she was little, and she fell in love with it. At the age at 17 she decided to became an actress. She attended the scientific secondary school, and at the same time she started working as an actress, beginning with small roles, after been discovered by her agent in a little theater school in Pescara. In 2021, she was casted in the TV series Prisma, produced Amazon Studios and Cross Productions and directed by Ludovico Bessegato.
- Giampiero Mancini was born on 30 May 1972 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is an actor, known for Hard Night Falling (2019), I segreti di Borgo Larici (2014) and Anti-Drug Squad (2011).
- Composer
- Music Department
- Writer
Alessandro Cicognini was born on 15 January 1906 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a composer and writer, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), Forrest Gump (1994) and Umberto D. (1952). He died on 9 November 1995 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Marco Verratti was born on 5 November 1992 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He has been married to Jessica Aïdi since 15 July 2021.
- Jarno Trulli is an Italian racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2011, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, Lotus Racing and Team Lotus. His best result in the World Drivers' Championship was sixth place in 2004; this was also the year in which he scored the only win of his Formula One career at the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix.
Throughout his Formula One career, Trulli was renowned for his skill in qualifying, regularly achieving far better grid positions than rivals with superior cars to his own. He was also known for his defensive driving style which allowed him to successfully hold off quicker drivers, sometimes for an entire race. The combination of being able to achieve high grid positions in comparatively slow cars and his ability to hold off faster drivers would often result in a line of vehicles forming behind him during a race, which was commonly referred to as the 'Trulli Train' by commentators, fans and journalists.
Trulli retired from Formula One at the start of the 2012 after having competed in the championship for 15 years. In 2014-15 he competed in the inaugural season of the FIA Formula E Championship, driving for Trulli GP, a team he founded himself. - Director
- Writer
- Producer
Alessio Consorte was born in 1980 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Il traghettatore: Pescara raccontata dai pescaresi (2016), Decumano Maximo (2021) and Il Guerriero Mi Pare Strano (2023).- Writer
- Director
- Editor
Lucio De Caro was born on 15 February 1922 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Il ventesimo duca (1945), Come ti rapisco il pupo (1977) and Piange... il telefono (1975). He died on 8 April 2008.- Music Department
- Composer
Gabriele Ferro was born on 15 November 1935 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a composer, known for Hab' ich nur deine Liebe (1989), My Favourite Opera (1991) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (1988).- Writer
- Actor
Mino Argentieri was born on 13 August 1927 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for I misteri di Roma (1963), 16 ottobre 1943 (1960) and Il mito di Cinecittà (1991). He died on 22 March 2017.- Sabrina Marinucci was born on 5 May 1969 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Omega Code (1999), CentoVetrine (2001) and Buona Domenica (1985).
- Gianni De Berardinis was born on 19 December 1955 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
- Nada Fiorelli was born on 17 August 1919 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She was an actress, known for Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1951), The Golden Coach (1952) and Marcella (1937). She was married to Giorgio Ferroni. She died on 16 September 1984 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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- Director
- Producer
Gianni Gatti was born on 24 May 1966 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. Gianni is a writer and director, known for Offerte speciali (2005), The Uranians (2013) and Ma che musica (1999).- Piero Mazzocchetti was born on 23 March 1978 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
- Andrea Colletti was born on 22 March 1981 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
- Ettore Giovannelli was born on 6 November 1964 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
- Toni Dalli was born on 28 November 1933 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He died on 29 April 2021 in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain.
- Ivan Scalfarotto was born on 16 August 1965 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy.
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Francesco Massaccesi was born on 5 December 1985 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a producer and writer, known for Innsmouth (2015), The Transparent Woman (2015) and The Road Killer.- Production Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
- Costume Designer
Alessandra Finocchio was born on 17 September 1970 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She is a production designer and costume designer, known for Nazareno (2007), Cient' anne (1999) and Luna rossa (2001).- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Daniela Furlani was born in 1983 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for Die Welt Nebenan (2012), Lady Europa (2012) and Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996).- Actor
- Production Manager
Francesco De Francesco was born on 1 November 1978 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He is an actor and production manager, known for L'ultima tomba a sinistra (2018), La trappola (2018) and Italian horror stories (2021).- Guido Calvi was born on 17 July 1940 in Pescara, Abruzzi e Molise, Italy [now Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy].
- Marco Mazzei was born in 1968 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. Marco is a director and editor, known for Stanze sonore - Esperimento n. 3: Il Bosco di Sant'Antonio (2012), Stanze Sonore - Esperimento n. 2: Orchestra Diffusa (2012) and Stanze Sonore - Esperimento #5: Orchestra Diffusa (2013).