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Gianfranco Pannone

(Naples, Italy, 1963) graduated in film from Sapienza University of Rome and received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; he lives and works in Rome. His documentaries have participated and received awards at many festivals in Italy and abroad, and have also been broadcast on major European television channels. His works from the 1990s include Piccola America, Lettere dall’America, and L’America a Roma (which compose the Trilogia dell’America), and Latina/Littoria (2001, best documentary at the Torino Film Festival), followed by Io che amo solo te (2004), Il sol dell’avvenire (Red Sunrise, 2008), ma che Storia… (2010), Ebrei a Roma (2012), Sul vulcano (2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Lascia stare i santi (Leave the Saints Alone, 2016), Mondo Za (2017), and Scherza con i fanti (2019).He is a professor and coordinator of directing for the Master's degree in Film and Television at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, and he runs the documentary film laboratory at the DAMS of Roma Tre University. He also collaborates as a professor of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.

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