Alessandro Piva

Alessandro Piva born in Salerno in 1966 is a photographer film editor and screenwriter having explored the film business allround After studying Film Editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia the National Film School he won the Solinas Award for Best Screenplay in 1992 and 1993 and shot several documentary films in Italy Africa South America SouthEast Asia and the MiddleEast He directed two feature films Lacapagira presented at the Berlin Film Festival and winner of the 2000 David di Donatello and Mio cognato presented at the 2003 Locarno Film Festival He is presently editing his new picture Henry He also worked in advertising Over the past years he has constantly worked as a radio director for the One Act plays of Radio3 Rai He has a consolidated experience in political and institutional communication as proven by a recent video shot for the Library of the Senate of the Italian Republic as well as several institutional spots such as Puglia perfetta directed for Governor Nichi Vendolas campaign at the 2005 regional elections in Apulia and winner of the Galà della Politica the same year He is also committed to social campaigns for the progress and culture of Southern Italy as the recent initiative Perotti Point dedicated to demolish the ecomonster Punta Perotti on the seafront of Bari that brought together dozens of filmmakers from all around Italy to realize a collective documentary film on the event He is also a professor and a member of the Academy of Italian Cinema