NAPOLI 24

Giovanni Cioni

Diego Liguori

Roberta Serretiello

Luca Martusciello

Nicolangelo Gelormini

Andrej Longo

Stefano Martone

Luigi Carrino

Mario Spada

Andrea Canova

Lorenzo Cioffi

Lorenzo Cioffi (Naples, Italy, 1979) has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2006. Over the years, he has dabbled especially with “documentaries of creation,” investigative TV reports, and educational documentaries. Napoli 24, one of his projects involving twenty-four film directors from Naples, was presented at the 28th Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Pugni (doc., 2008), In viaggio sull’Urania (doc., 2009), L’ultima chance (doc., 2010), Napoli 24 (coregia/codirectors aa.vv., cm, 2010), Passeurs de rêves (doc., 2012), Il viaggio di Ettore (cm, doc., 2013).

Francesca Cutolo

Vincenzo Cavallo

Gianluca Loffredo

Daria D'Antonio

Ugo Capolupo

Massimiliano Pacifico

Massimiliano Pacifico graduated in Film and TV studies at the London University of Surrey, in 2001. He worked with many directors like Paolo Sorrentino, Pippo Delbono, Antonio Capuano, Maurizio Fiume, Vincenzo Marra, Susanne Bier e Olivier Assayas in Naples, his hometown where he lives and works. He filmed a series of shorts on Mimmo Paladino’s work, for whom he also edited Quiijote, presented to the Venice Film Festival in 2006. The same year he directed, together with Diego Liguori, Cricket Cup, documentary on the Sri Lankan community in Naples, broadcast on Bbc World. In 2010, in collaboration with other twenty three directors from Naples, he made Napoli 24, presented in the 28^th edition of the Torino Film Festival

FILMOGRAFIA

Invenzione di Don Chisciotte (cm, anim., 2006), Giocosamente (cm, anim., 2007), Dalla fonte alla piazza (cm, 2007), Le sorgenti nascoste (cm, 2008), Torretreno (cm, 2008), Opera (mm, 2008), Cricket Cup (coregia/codirector Diego Liguori, mm, doc., 2006), Napoli 24 (ep. 17, cm, 2010), 394 - Trilogy in the World (mm, doc., 2011). 

Bruno Oliviero

Bruno Oliviero (Naples, Italy, 1972) since April 2007 he has worked alongside Silvio Soldini, running a film/documentary school in Venice. During recent years he has developed a production project Lumière & Co. and Istituto Luce to make six films
directed by six documentary directors who are starting out. At present, he is making a new documentary and is writing a fiction film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Isaac a Ponticelli (1997), La guerra di Antonietta (2002), Un amore a Milano (2004), Odessa (coregia/codirector Leonardo Di Costanzo, 2006), Napoli Piazza Municipio (doc., 2008).

Gianluca Iodice

Gianluca Iodice (Naples, 1974) graduated in philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. He went to the Centro Culturale Giovanile for four years. Besides producing videos, he has made Orologio ad Acqua, a documentary on commission with financing from the Campania Region, dealing with an encounter between sculptors and poets that took place at the aquarium in Naples in June 1997. In 1999 he won the Premio della Critica Cinematografica e Televisiva, Castelli dell'Alta Marca Anconetana for his film Carne di Topo. In 2001 he was nominated for the Premio Cinecittà Digital 2000 for his screenplay of Ritratto di Bambino. The same year, his short film La Signora Holibet won the Sacher Festival directed by Nanni Moretti (Golden Sacher for best film, Golden Sacher for best actress and Silver Sacher from the People's Jury).

FILMOGRAFIA

La luna al sole (cm, 1994), L'infinito (cm, 1995), Fumetto (cm, 1996), Orologio ad acqua (cm, 1997), Sidereus Nuncius (cm, 1997), Carne di topo (cm, 1998), La signorina Holibet (cm, 2001), Ritratto di bambino (2002).

Guido Lombardi

Guido Lombardì, a Chiavari (Genoa) native, has been living in Rome since 1965, where he attended film school. He wrote the chapter on avantgarde and underground film in Storia del cinema (Garzanti, 1988). Lajolo and Lombardi have been working together since 1967 on documentaries, experimental and independent films, social videos, fiction programs and investigative reports for Rai. They are among the pioneers of Italian video. Along with Alfredo Leonardi, they founded the group, Videobase, which broke up in 1978. They collaborate with Rai3; and, as members of the group, Altrementi (founded with Gianfranco Baruchello in 1985), they make independent videos using new technologies of electronic image-processing. Their films have appeared at the principal national and international festivals.

FILMOGRAFIA

Tra le loro realizzazioni / Among their works: La casa è un diritto non un privilegio (1970, con Alfredo Leonardi e Paola Scarnati), E nua ca simu a forza du mundu (16mm, 1971, con A. Leonardi), Il fitto dei padroni non lo paghiamo più (video, 1972), Sotto le stelle, sotto il tendone (video, 1972, con A. Leonardi), Là il cielo e la terra si univano (16mm, 1972), Quartieri popolari di Roma (video, 1973), Policlinico in lotta (video, 1973), Lotta di classe alla Fiat (video, 1974), L'isola dell'isola (video, 1974-77), I blues. Cronache del sentimento politico (16mm, 1975), Il lavoro contro la vita (video, 1979); Dietro Piride (video, 1987, con Gianfranco Baruchello), Fraintesi dall'incantevole (video, 1989, con G. Baruchello), Quando il giallo si dissolve (video, 1990, con G. Baruchello), Un lieve rossore nel tempo (video, 1990, con G. Baruchello), Quell'episodio dell'immaginazione che chiamiamo la realtà (video, 1990, con G. Baruchello), Punto di fuga (video, 1991, con G. Baruchello), 68191 (video, 1991, con G. Baruchello), Tristan da Cunha (video, 1992), South Atlantic (video, 1992, con G. Baruchello).

Mariano Lamberti

Mariano Lamberti (Pompei, Neaples, 1967) has a degree in philosophy. He attended the film school at Bassano del Grappa directed by Ermanno Olmi from 1988. He then received a diploma in directing at the Experimental Film Center. He has worked as assistant director for M. Bolognini.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dettagli di cera (16mm, 1991), Metamorfosi (16mm, 1991), Western di cose nostre (35mm, 1992).

Mario Martone

(Naples, 1959), theatrical and film director, began his activity in 1977, in the avant-garde climate of the times, and founded the group Falso Movimento, which created performances that combined elements of theater, cinema and visual arts. Ten years later, he founded Teatri Uniti, a company that promotes encounters between Neapolitan artists of the new generation, and which produced his films independently. His first feature film, Morte di un matematico napoletoano, won the Jury's Grand Prize in Venice in 1992. His later films, L'Amore molesto and Teatro di guerra, were both presented at Cannes. He has directed both classic theater and lyrical theater. Between 1999 and 2000 he was the director of the Teatro di Roma, where he carried out radical changes in the programming, giving more space to the arts and to the "new theater". He has also inaugurated a new performance area, the India, by recuperating an old, abandoned factory along the Tiber River.

FILMOGRAFIA

Nella città barocca (doc., 1984), Morte di un matematico napoletano (1992), Rasoi (mm, 1993), Lucio Amelio/Terrae Motus (doc., 1993), Veglia (doc., 1993), Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita (cm, ep di Miracoli – Storie per corti, 1994), L’unico paese al mondo (regia collettiva, 1994), L’amore molesto (1995), Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller (doc., 1996), Una storia Saharawi (doc., 1996), La salita (cm, ep di I Vesuviani, 1997), La terra trema (coregia/co-director, Jacopo Quadri, doc., 1998), Appunti da Santarcangelo (doc., 1998), Teatro di guerra (1998), Una disperata vitalità (1998), Un posto al mondo (coregia/co-director, Jacopo Quadri, doc., 2000) Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano (doc., 2001), L’odore del sangue (2004), Caravaggio – L’ultimo tempo (mm, doc., 2004), Noi credevamo (2010), La meditazione di Hayez (cm, doc., 2011), Il giovane favoloso (2014), Capri-Revolution (2018), Il sindaco del rione Sanità (2019), Qui rido io (2021), Nostalgia (2022), Laggiù qualcuno mi ama (doc., 2023), Mimmo Jodice. Senza tempo (mm, doc., 2023).

Fabio Mollo

Fabio Mollo (Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1980) majored in film history from the University of East London in 2002, and in directing from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome in 2007. His directorial debut, the short film Troppo vento (2003), received many awards. He has written and directed several documentary films, including Giganti (2007), which won the Best Short Film Award at the Torino Film Festival; it also reveived a Special Mention at the Nastri d’argento and at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, and it competed in the Berlinale. He was a finalist for the Solinas Award in 2005. He was selected for the Atelier de la Cinéfondation of the Cannes Festival and for the Talent Project Market at the Berlinale in 2011. Il Sud è niente, his first feature film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was screened at Berlinale, at the International Film Festival of Rome and at the 31st Torino Film Festival. He was nominated for the best debuting director awards at the Nastri d'argento and the Globi d'oro.

FILMOGRAFIA

Troppo vento (cm, 2003), Acqua (cm, 2004), Ogni piccola cosa (cm, 2004), Quello che sento (cm, 2004), Cuntami (cm, 2004), Carmilla (cm, 2005), Al buio (cm, 2005), Giganti (cm, 2007), Napoli 24 (coregia/codirectors aa.vv., cm, 2010), Il Sud è niente (2013), Vincenzo da Crosia (doc., 2015).

Pietro Marcello

Pietro Marcello (Caserta, Italy, 1976) debuted in 2003 with the shorts Carta and Scampia. In 2004, he directed the documentary Il cantiere and the next year he made the short La baracca. In 2007, he directed Il passaggio della linea, which was entirely shot on express trains crossing Italy; presented at the Venice Film Festival, it won the Pasinetti Doc Award and a special mention for the Doc/it Award. La bocca del lupo, his first feature film, won Best Film and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2009 Torino Film Festival, and the Caligari Film Award and the Teddy at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2011, the Armenian director Artavazd Pelešjan was the subject of his film-portrait Il silenzio di Pelešjan, presented in the Orizzonti section in Venice. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Carta (cm, 2003), Scampia (cm, 2003), Il cantiere (mm, doc., 2004), La baracca (cm, doc., 2005), Il passaggio della linea (mm, doc., 2007), La bocca del lupo (2009), Il silenzio di Pelešjan (2011), Venice 70: Future Reloaded - Unitled (cm, 2013), 9x10 (ep. L’umile Italia, 2014), Bella e perduta (2015).

Marcello Sannino

Marcello Sannino (Portici, Naples, 1971), after working as a bookseller, began dedicating himself to cinema in 2002. He has made the documentaries Decroux e il mimo corporeo (2003), La Passione suessana (2004), and L’ultima Treves (2007), a portrait of the bookseller’s profession, told through the vicissitudes of a historical bookstore which is being evicted. His movie Corde (2009), about the life choices made by the boxer Ciro Pariso, won the Special Jury Prize at the 27th Torino Film Festival. Between 2008 and 2016, he collaborated with Arci Movie in Ponticelli, Parallelo41, and Figli del Bronx, running laboratories on film languages at various institutes of higher learning and making short films with the students which have participated at various specialized festivals.

FILMOGRAFIA

Decroux e il mimo corporeo (doc., 2003), La Passione suessana (doc., 2004), L’ultima Treves (doc., 2007), Corde (doc., 2009), Napoli 24 (coregia/codirectors aa.vv., ep. Porta Capuana, doc., 2010), La seconda natura (doc., 2012), Porta Capuana. La frontiera fluida (doc., 2018).

Federico Mazzi

Federico Mazzi (Turin, 1968) began to be active in theater in 1989. He worked as an actor for several years and then directed some plays. La cartolina marks his debut as a video director.

Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino (Naples, 1970) directed the short film, Un paradiso, which was in the final competition at the 1995 Festival Palermo Cinema 1995. In 1996 he co-authored, along with Antonio Capuano, Polvere di Napoli, a film directed Capuano himself. In 1997 he won "ex-aequo" the Solinas award for his screenplay, Napoletani. His L'uomo in più, was presented in the Cinema of the Present competition at the 2001 Venice Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Un paradiso (cm, 1994), L'amore non ha confini (cm, 1998), L'uomo in più (cm, 2001), La notte lunga (2001).