Alessandro Piva
Directing
Biography
Alessandro Piva, born in Salerno in 1966, is a photographer, film editor, and screenwriter, having explored the film business all-round. After studying Film Editing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia", the National Film School, he won the Solinas Award for Best Screenplay in 1992 and 1993, and shot several documentary films in Italy, Africa, South America, South-East Asia, and the Middle-East. He directed two feature films, Lacapagira, presented at the Berlin Film Festival and winner of the 2000 David di Donatello; and Mio cognato, presented at the 2003 Locarno Film Festival. He is presently editing his new picture, Henry. He also worked in advertising. Over the past years, he has constantly worked as a radio director for the One Act plays of Radio3 Rai. He has a consolidated experience in political and institutional communication, as proven by a recent video shot for the Library of the Senate of the Italian Republic, as well as several institutional spots, such as “Puglia perfetta” directed for Governor Nichi Vendola’s campaign at the 2005 regional elections in Apulia and winner of the Galà della Politica the same year. He is also committed to social campaigns for the progress and culture of Southern Italy, as the recent initiative “Perotti Point” dedicated to demolish the eco-monster Punta Perotti on the seafront of Bari, that brought together dozens of filmmakers from all around Italy to realize a collective documentary film on the event. He is also a professor and a member of the Academy of Italian Cinema.
Known For
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La scelta di Laura
A man recruits the help of his gangster brother-in-law to retrieve his stolen car.
My Brother-in-Law
The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life and the deep impulses of oppression. Thirty years of history of one of the most beautiful and discussed cities in the world, the dream of a boy who is overwhelmed by the desire for power as an end in itself, to become the nightmare of a man and those who live next to him.
Mafia Millionaires
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Santa subito
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Pasta nera
The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
Esercizi di stile
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Sea Mood
Bari, the last chills of a very cold winter. A gang of petty criminals rummages through the day and night of the suburbs, searching for a precious package sent from the Balkans and destined never to reach its final destination. What does the package contain? Important material for our characters; for the viewer, a passe-partout that opens the door to a jagged and surprising urban undergrowth.
LaCapaGira
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Road to Myself - Antichi cammini nell'Italia del Sud
The detective Silvestri has a zealous wife, a child on the way and a double murder to be solved in a livid Rome selling drugs and consuming lives. His investigation intersects the lives of young people and affected Nina and John, in spite of themselves involved in the murder of a drug dealer and his mother. Aerobics instructor her layabout him, the young lovers try to work out and awkwardly from a story larger than themselves. In the background is moving while the murder underworld clan committed to winning a prestigious post in the heroin market. Among African criminals and delirious, Silvestri will be up to restore order and find the culprits. The price you pay will be high, however.
Henry
A Polish girl decides to return home after eight years spent in various places in Europe. She makes the journey in a van and in the company of the members of a film crew who, on the long road from Rome to the Baltic coast, make a documentary about her and her story. The girl offers an account of some of the hardest moments in her life, from when she became involved in prostitution in Poland to when she arrived in Italy, the victim of violence, exploitation and abuse of all kinds.
Gli occhi stanchi
Amid the noise of a crowded park, a deaf boy notices a red-haired girl reading alone and decides to approach her using Italian Sign Language (LIS).
Listen
Three friends, who are also young filmmakers, decide to write and shoot a film, starting from the disheartening realization that they only have one roll of film. They contact acquaintances and film producers, even getting involved in long soccer games to please the latter. In the end, they succeed in their endeavor, but... what an effort!
Il caricatore
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Cradle Siblings
Six short episodes about a car key, a flask, a screw, a nut, a pocket dictionary, and a photograph, the pocket contents of five lumberjacks and an automobile salesman.
Tascheninhalt und Nasenbluten
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Contro natura
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Due Sicilie
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