BEPPE CINO

Beppe Cino, born Giuseppe Cino (Caltanissetta, 3 February 1947), is an Italian director and screenwriter.
After the Classical Maturity and studies of Political Science and Philosophy at the La Sapienza University of Rome, he was admitted to the Experimental Center of Cinematography of Rome in the two-year period 1970 - 1971, graduating in Regia; at the end of the two-year period, he produced the essay La Sicilia è il suo popolo, a film that is distributed by the October Circles of Lotta Continua and by the Municipality of Dario Fo. He also participates in the International Film Festival of San Remo (1972) and at the Venice Free Cinema Days in 1972. He began his activity as assistant director and collaborator of Roberto Rossellini with the film L'età di Cosimo de 'Medici ( 1972), continuing in Cartesius (1973), Rice University (1973), Anno Uno (1974), The World Population (1974), Il Messia (1975).
Between the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties he was the author of several investigation programs for RAI TV, Tokyo Broadcastinc System (TBS), NHK (Japan) and SudWestFunk of Federal Germany.
In 1981 he made a short film for the permanent theater in Heidelberg inspired by the drama Juno and the Peacock by Sean O'Casey.