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GIFFONI50 - 18.29 AUGUST / 26-30 DECEMBER

Sections & Films

FAME

Category: Edition 2020

Naples, a crossroads of cultures and colors. On the waterfront and in the ancient center there is a contamination of ethnic groups between wealth and poverty, despair and hope. A child's eyes are the witness of her father's fate.

Original Title Fame
Category Official Competition
Section Parental Experience
Tipology Short Film, Fiction
Duration 13’
Production Year 2019
Nationality Italy
Directed by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo
Screenplay Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo
Main cast Ludovica Nasti
Gigi Savoia
Bianca Nappi
Massimiliano Rossi
Produced by Eduardo Angeloni, Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo

 

dfc5296bb5 headshotGiuseppe Alessio Nuzzo

Born in 1989. He studied directing at the National Film & Tv School in London, cinema and organization at the National School of Cinema - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, cinematographic language at the Luigi Vanvitelli University. He also graduated with top marks in Dentistry with an experimental thesis in Los Angeles entitled Dentistry in cinema and entertainment: new frontiers of aesthetic dentistry.

Director, producer and author, he is an expert in social cinema and currently he is general director of the Social World Film Festival. He has written and directed numerous feature films, documentaries and short films including SAD LETTERS with Leo Gullotta, PRIMITIVELY with Giancarlo Giannini and the music of Enzo Avitabile, THE TRUTH with Francesco Montanari, Nicoletta Romanoff, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, IL NOME CHE MI HAI SEMPRE DATO with Mariano Rigillo and THE CHOISE with Cristina Donadio as well as video clips and commercials with a social theme such as RUN with Anna Falchi, broadcast on Rai and Mediaset. For his films he he has received numerous awards including the special mention at the prestigious Silver Ribbon, the Griphon for the best film in the Parental Control section at the Giffoni Film Festival 2017, the Ettore Scola Award at the Casa del Cinema in Rome, the Grand Prize of the Critical Jury at the Siena Film Festival and the awards from the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano, from the Nobel Prize Rita Levi Montalcini, from the European Union and from Pubblicità Progresso. Organizer of cinema events such as the Campania Cinema Award and CineBus, he is an author and editor for cinema and entertainment. He curates the anthology of cinematographic citations Cinema è sogno. He teaches directing at the University of Cinema and for public and private training institutes, he collaborates with the Cinema and TV Master of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa and writes film reviews for various outlets.