Salvatore Allocca



NOMINATED: Italian Shorts


MOVIE: La Gita



BIOGRAFIA:

Salvatore Allocca is a director, producer and screenwriter from Rome. After graduating in Literature and Cinema, in 2006 he founded Vega's Project, a film and television production company. He wrote, directed, edited and produced several short films, music videos and documentaries such as "Negli occhi" (2010), about the life and career of actor Vittorio Mezzogiorno, winner of the Nastri d'Argento Award and the Golden Globe for Best Documentary. In the same year, he produced the docu-fiction "L'incantatore di serpenti, la vita senza freno di Gian Carlo Fusco", in competition at Milan Int. Film Festival. He then directed his first theatrical feature film "How to find the right way the wrong man", released in theatres by the 20th Century Fox in 2011. In 2017 he is in competition at Bif&st with "Taranta on the Road", his second theatrical feature-film. In the same year he wrote and directed the short film "La gamba (The leg)", starring Ernesto Mahieux and Nina Senicar, in competition at Cortinametraggio and Milan Int. Film Festival. In 2018 he won the Bando Migrarti with "La gita (The school trip)", presented at the 75th Venice Film Festival.This year with "the trip" in competition as the best Italian short film is nominated for the third time at the Milan Intenational Film Festival (MIFF Awards).


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