GIACOMO CAMPIOTTI
Born in Varese in 1957, he graduated in Pedagogy at the University of Bologna. After working for years in theater, he worked as Mario Monicelli’s assistant and assistant director in IL MARCHESE DEL GRILLO, WE HOPE THAT IS FEMALE AND I PICARI. He becomes part of the group "Ipotesi Cinema" of Ermanno Olmi in Bassano del Grappa and develops for RaiUno the short films: TRE DONNE (1983), LA BOMBA (1985) and RITORNO AL CINEMA (1986). In 1989 he directed his first feature film CORSA DI PRIMAVERA, winner of the Giffoni Film Festival 1990. In 1994 he directed COME DUE COCCODRILLI, with Giancarlo Giannini, Valeria Golino and Fabrizio Bentivoglio, winner of numerous awards and best foreign film candidate at the Golden Globes of 1996. Also in 1996 he directed RITRATTI D'AUTORE: SECOND SERIES. He later wrote and directed IL TEMPO DELL'AMORE (1999). In 2002 he directed the TV miniseries ZIVAGO, an international co-production broadcasted in different countries, with Keira Knightley, Sam Neill and Hans Matheson. In 2005 he returned to the silver screen with NEVER AS BEFORE, a film that deals with complex issues such as the lack of communication between adults and teenagers. In 2007, he directed the TV miniseries in two episodes L'AMORE E LA GUERRA with Daniele Liotti and Martina Stella, which led to the successful GIUSEPPE MOSCATI - L'AMORE CHE GUARISCE, a Artis Spa and Sacha Film Company Srl production with Giuseppe Fiorello in the role of Moscati, the Neapolitan doctor who dedicated his life to care for the poor and miniseries Rai BAKHITA (2009), with Fatou Kine Boye, Stefania Rocca, Fabio Sartor, Francesco Salvi, Ettore Bassi. Giacomo's most recent films are IL SORTEGGIO - with Giuseppe Fiorello in the role of Tonino Barone, a Fiat worker drawn by lot as a Fiat worker who was drawn to be part of the popular jury during 1977 first trial of the Red Brigades - and BIANCA COME IL LATTE, ROSSA COME IL SANGUE (2012), a film adaptation of Alessandro D'Avenia's debut novel. His most recent success is tv series BRACCIALETTI ROSSI.