Valia Santella

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Valia Santella
Born24 May 1965 (1965-05-24) (age 60)
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian
OccupationScreenwriter

Valia Santella (born 24 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director.

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Life and career

Born in Naples, Valia Santella is the daughter of the actors Mario and Maria Luisa Santella  [ it ]. [1] Starting from the 1990 film Matilda by Antonietta De Lillo and Giorgio Magliulo, for about a decade she worked as a script supervisor, becoming a close collaborator of Nanni Moretti. [1] In 2004 she made her directorial debut with I Can See It in Your Eyes , which premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar. [2] Starting from Valeria Golino's Miele , she focused on screenwriting, collaborating with Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Ferzan Özpetek, and Leonardo Di Costanzo, among others. [1]

Between 2019 and 2020, Santella won the David di Donatello for best screenplay and the Nastro d'Argento in the same category for Bellocchio's The Traitor . [3] [4] In 2022, she won a second David di Donatello for the screenplay of Leonardo Di Costanzo's The Inner Cage . [5]

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 3 Urbani, Ilaria (24 January 2022). "Valia Santella: "Scrivo per il cinema come sognavo a 20 anni, per questo sono felice"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  2. ↑ Weissberg, Jay (29 September 2004). "I Can See It in Your Eyes". Variety . Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  3. ↑ Grater, Tom (9 May 2020). "Mafia Pic 'The Traitor' Tops Italy's David di Donatello Awards". Deadline . Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Scarpa, Vittoria (1 July 2019). "The Traitor reigns triumphant at Italy's Nastri d'Argento Awards". Cineuropa . Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  5. ↑ Vivarelli, Nick (3 May 2022). "Paolo Sorrentino's 'The Hand of God' Takes Top Honors at Italy's David di Donatello Awards". Variety. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
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