Giuseppe Piccioni

Giuseppe Piccioni

Giuseppe Piccioni (born July 2, 1953 in Ascoli Piceno ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .

Life

After studying sociology at the University of Urbino , between 1980 and 1983 he attended the Scuola di cinema Gaumont, a private film school that only existed for a few years and was run by Renzo Rossellini jr. was directed. He then worked as a director for promotional films. In 1985 he founded the film production company Vertigo Film with Domenico Procacci , which produced his first feature film The Great Blek (Il grande Blek) in 1987 . The film ran at the Berlinale in 1988.

His film Out of This World (Fuori dal mondo) won five David di Donatellos in 1999 and was nominated for four more. In 2001 the light of my eyes (Luce dei miei occhi) ran in the competition at the Venice International Film Festival and the two actors Luigi Lo Cascio and Sandra Ceccarelli received the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor.

The life I always wanted (La vita che vorrei) from 2004 was shown at the Berlinale 2005 in the Panorama section. In 2004 he was one of the co-founders of the Liberia del Cinema di Roma, which is located in the Roman district of Trastevere . His 2009 film Giulia never goes out in the evening (Giulia non esce la sera) was released in German cinemas on September 1, 2011.

Filmography (selection)

• 1987: The great Blek (Il grande Blek)
• 1999: Out of this world (Fuori dal mondo)
• 2001: Light of my eyes (Luce dei miei occhi)
• 2004: The life I always wanted (La vita che vorrei)
• 2009: Giulia never goes out in the evening (Giulia non esce la sera)
• 2012: Red and Blue (Il rosso e il blu)
• 2016: Questi giorni

Awards

• 1999: Out of this world (Fuori dal mondo) : Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival - Best Film , Grand Jury Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival - Best Film , David di Donatello - Best Film and Best Screenplay
• 2001: Sergio Trasatti Award at the Venice International Film Festival for the light of my eyes (Luce dei miei occhi)

Web links

• Giuseppe Piccioni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Giuseppe Piccioni's website (Italian)
• Biography on mymovies.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on mymovies (Italian)
2. ↑ Website of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian) 
3. ↑ Website of the Liberia del Cinema di Roma ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian)