Pasquale Pozzessere Explained

Pasquale Pozzessere
Occupation:	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,^[2] 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^[3] and won the Grolla d'oro in the same category.^[4] The film also won the Grand Prix at the Annecy Film Festival.^[5]

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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. 2002. Gremese Editore, 2002. 8884401712.
2. Book: Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. 2002. Gremese Editore, 2002. 8884401712.
3. Web site: Maria Pia Fusco. ' IL GRANDE COCOMERO' E' IL FILM DELL' ANNO. La Repubblica. 16 January 2012. 6 June 1993.
4. Web site: Maria Pia Fusco. GROLLE D' ORO PER DIVI E NON. La Repubblica. 16 January 2012. 1 November 1992.
5. Book: Sipario, Edizioni 530-534. 1993.