Stefano Casertano

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Stefano Casertano is an italian film director and producer.

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Casertano co-produced the film The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco, awarded a "Silver Lion" as Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival - La Biennale di Venezia [1] in 2019. He directed the narrative VR film "Tales of the march", selected by the 80. Venice Film Festival for the "Venice Immersive" section in 2023. [2]

He has been nominated "Italian Leader" by the Council for the United States and Italy and "Junior Fellow" by the Aspen Institute, [3] and is an alumn of the Venice Biennale College for Virtual Reality. [4] He holds a Ph.D. "Magna cum Laude" in Politics from Potsdam University, and an MBA from Columbia University, New York. [5]

Film career

His 2016 docufiction "People of Love and Rage" ("Gente di amore e Rabbia") won the DocFeed Film Festival in Eindhoven, [6] received the Special Mention of the Jury at the Rome Independent Film Festival [7] and has been selected by the Venice Film Week and the Broadway International Film Festival. [8] [9] The production "The Ballad of the Homeless" by Monica Manganelli screened at Cannes Film Festival and has been awarded, among the others, a "Nastro d'Argento" prize in Italy, and won the "LA Short Fest", an Academy Awards Qualifier. [10]

In 2021, his VR project "Tales of the March" was selected by the Venice Biennale for the development program "Biennale College VR" [11] and was granted support by the Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg. [12] Shooting started in March 2023 [13] and the film was later selected by the "Venice Immersive" section of the 80. Venice Film Festival. [14]

His film "The Poet who would be King" ("Il Poeta che volle farsi Re"), dedicated to poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and his "Impresa di Fiume", has been produced by Cinecittà - Luce and by Fondazione Vittoriale degli Italian i, starring historian Giordano Bruno Guerri and art-critic Vittorio Sgarbi. The film has been presented at Vittoriale for the 100th anniversary of d'Annunzio's ill-fated endeavour. [15]

In 2022, film company Titanus announced the production of Casertano's fiction film "La Guerra di Elena". [16] The film has been granted a selective contribution by the Italian Culture Ministry. [17]

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