Pasquale Pozzessere

Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1957)

Pasquale Pozzessere
Born	1957 (age 66–67) Lizzano
Occupation(s)	film director, screenwriter

Pasquale Pozzessere (born in 1957) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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)

References

^ ^a ^b Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
^ Maria Pia Fusco (6 June 1993). "' IL GRANDE COCOMERO' E' IL FILM DELL' ANNO". La Repubblica. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
^ Maria Pia Fusco (1 November 1992). "GROLLE D' ORO PER DIVI E NON". La Repubblica. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
^ Sipario, Edizioni 530-534. 1993.