Pasquale Pozzessere
Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1957)
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Life and career
Born in Lizzano, Taranto in the mid-1980s Pozzessere abandoned his medicine university studies to enter the cinema industry working as a script supervisor for Pupi Avati and as assistant director of Francesco Maselli.[1] After directing a number of short films,[1] he made his feature film debut in 1992, with Verso Sud, for which he was nominated to a David di Donatello for Best New Director[2] and won the Grolla d'oro in the same category.[3] The film also won the Grand Prix at the Annecy Film Festival.[4]
Filmography
- Verso Sud (1992)
- Father and Son (1994)
- An Eyewitness Account (1997)
- La vita che verrà (TV, 1999)
- La porta delle sette stelle (2005)
- La provinciale (TV, 2006)
- Cocapop (2010)
- Mine (2016)
