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Serafino Murri (born in Rome, April 5, 1966) is an Italian film critic, screenwriter and film director.
After graduating in Aesthetics at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1990, he is author of screen dialogues for foreign film dubbing into Italian (amongst the author he adapted Oshima, Loach, Gitai, Scorsese, Meadows, Rohmer, Chabrol, Imamura, Kiarostami, Schroeder, Stone, Tikwer, Makhmalbaf). and dramaturg of a Rome-based theatre company (I Costruttori). In 1996 starts working as screenwriter with Italian film directors as Volfango De Biasi and Mario Monicelli , and in the same year is one of the founders of the Italian cinema quarterly "Close-Up" and its ediitor.in-chief until 1999, and of the cinema monthly "Filmmaker's Magazine", as its editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2000, also collaborating with other Italian and international magazines such as MicroMega, Bianco e Nero, 8 e 1/2, and the literary quarterly "Nuovi Argomenti".
His main credits as film critic are studies and books on the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1994, Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 2001), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1996), Martin Scorsese (Martin Scorsese, 2000), Orson Welles (also translalting into iItalian Welles' book Interviews in 2005), and essays on cinema and New Media.
Author of relevant collective works as Encyclopaedia of Cinema (2004) and Lexicon of Contemporaneity (2013) published by l'Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, he has been member of the Selection Committee of Venice Film Festival in 2002 and 2003 (where he was also superintendent of the experimental section "New Territories"), and in 2008 and 2009 manager of the "Factual" section of Roma Fiction Fest. From 2005 to 2013 he was film critic of the monthly magazine La Repubblica XL.
From 1999 to 2006 collaborates with the satellite TV network RaiSat Cinema World as author, director and studio host for television programs. Since 2012 is author of TV magazines for the DTV channel RaiMovie.
His debut in film directing is the full feature movie Movimenti (Movements, 2004), written and directed with Claudio Fausti, [1] to which followed other fictional movies (the short movie The Changing of the guard, 2005, produced and broadcast by Sky Channel, Feisbum - Il film, (fragments Angelo Azzurro Reloaded and The addiction, 2009), documentary movies (The Music Hall of Rome, 2007, prod. RaiCinema, Scandalo in sala (Scandal on the screen, 2014, co-directed by Alexandra Rosati, prod. Istituto Luce-Cinecittà), music videos and social adverts and commercials.
Since 1999 he's teaching cinema, art and communication subjects ("Visual Communication", "Scriptwriting", "Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts") at IED - Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, from 2005 to 2011 was professor of Audiovisual and media translation" at IULM University of Languages and Communication in Milan, and teaches "New media and cinema" at "Cinematographic Art School Gian Maria Volontè" in Rome.
From 2007 to 2011 he was member of Cinema Commission of Italian society of Authors SIAE, from 2006 to 2009 has been in the Board of Directors of di Filmitalia S.p.a., associated of public holding company Cinecittà Holding. In 2005 he's been on oft the founders of young film director's association RING (Forum Registi Indipendenti), and in 2008 of the Cinema and TV authors association "100autori".
Since 2014 is working together with Mario Amura at Emoticron s.r.l., an innovative startup founded in November 2014 in Naples, Italy, developing and patent-pending a web application and mobile app for real time music and pictures editing and sharing, named "StopEmotion". He is now working for Emoticron S.r.l. as CCO and Web Evangelist.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, titled Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints and commonly referred to as simply Salò, is a 1975 art film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film is a loose adaptation of the 1785 book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade, set during World War II, and was Pasolini's final film, being released three weeks after his murder.
Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colors trilogy (1993–1994). Kieślowski received numerous awards during his career, including the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize (1988), FIPRESCI Prize, and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (1991); the Venice Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize (1989), Golden Lion (1993), and OCIC Award (1993); and the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear (1994). In 1995, he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writing.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure. He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his direct style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters. He was an established major figure in European literature and cinematic arts. His murder prompted an outcry in Italy and its circumstances continue to be a matter of heated debate.
La ricotta is a short film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1962 and is part of the omnibus film Ro.Go.Pa.G. It is often considered the most memorable portion of Ro.Go.Pa.G and the height of Pasolini's creative powers and social criticism.
Dario Bellezza was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes.
Attilio Bertolucci was an Italian poet and writer. He is father to film directors Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci.
Sandro Veronesi, born in Florence, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry that has remained his only venture into verse writing. What has followed since includes five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplay, and television programs.
Nuovi Argomenti is an Italian literary magazine which was started in 1953 in Rome.
Virgilio Tosi is an Italian documentary filmmaker and historian of early film.
Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Italo Moscati is an Italian writer, film director, and screenwriter. He was born in Milan and, since 1967, has lived and worked in Rome.
Aldo Valletti (1930-1992) was an Italian film actor best known for the role of President Curval in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Ines Pellegrini is an Italian retired actress of Eritrean origin.
A list of books and essays about Pier Paolo Pasolini:
Maria Luisa Gabriella Epifani, better known as Muzi Epifani, was an Italian writer and poet.
Mario Amura is an Italian photographer and cinematographer.
Ingy Mubiayi is an Egyptian-born Italian writer. She focuses her works on migrants and has become a voice of the Italian-African diaspora. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers for her work "Documenti, prego". In addition to her writing, Mubiayi teaches Italian and Arabic and has worked as a translator.
Remo Anzovino is an Italian composer, musician and criminal lawyer.
Adele Cambria was an Italian journalist, writer, and actress.
Cecilia Mangini was an Italian film director, considered the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy.
