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- Alessio Della Valle is a film director and screenwriter who was born and raised in Florence, Italy. A polyglot who traveled the world extensively, he has lived in over ten countries by the age of 30. He was awarded the Fulbright Sergio Corbucci Scholarship in Film Directing and holds a cum laude degree from Bologna University, with additional studies in Theatre at the Samuel Beckett Center, Dublin, and Film Directing at the Los Angeles Film School. Alessio is accomplished in playing several instruments and composing music for orchestra, having completed his musical education at the Music Academy of Florence. He directed Giacomo Puccini's opera "The Girl of the Golden West" in Los Angeles. Alessio directed commercials for brands like: Disney, Hello Kitty, Bose, Unesco, Fiat. He founded the "The Art of Awakening" art movement, for which he wrote a manifesto that was published by UNESCO. His work was first exhibited at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Other exhibitions of his photographs and paintings have also been held across Europe.
He served as the Head of International of the Producers Guild of Italy. Former Member of the Youth Jury at the 60th and 61st Venice Film Festival, Alessio has worked for broadcasters (Rai, Sky, Fox), streamers (Apple TV, Hulu, Amazon Prime) and US Studios (Lionsgate, Saban).
His debut feature film "American Night" had the World Premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival, and it was distributed in the United States by Lionsgate, in the UK as a SKY Originals and all over the world. 4 Oscar winners/nominees and 2 Golden Globe winners worked on the film, earning it the moniker of "an Italian miracle" by ADN Kronos.
Alessio's cinematic endeavors have been featured on Fortune, Variety, TEDx, Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, and Rolling Stone. Praised by Deadline Hollywood: "A unique perspective. A talented director." It has been described by Film Threat as "Absolutely incredible" and "One of the best films of the year."
"American Night" was featured at the Golden Globes. The screenplay of "American Night" was requested by the Oscars to be included in the Academy's Permanent Core Collection for study and preservation.
- IMDb mini biography by: J. Goldman
- Della Valle founded a new art movement and wrote its Manifesto "The Art of Awakening". The Manifesto has been published by UNESCO and the same publishing house of Futurism, Vallecchi. The first exhibition was held at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
- At 17 years old he spent an entire summer as an "assistant fresco painter" for a cycle of three frescoes with Master Luciano Guarnieri, one of the best frescoes painters of the world, whose international works are held at the Ford Foundation in New York. Jim spent months on the high scaffolding near the ceilings of the tall church of Badia (Tuscany) designed by master architect Giovanni Michelucci. He learns a centuries old technique, the same one used by Michelangelo and all the great frescoes painters of the Renaissance, a craft that very few people in the world still know and practice. This extraordinary experience at such a young age has a strong influence over the young artist.
- He was Awarded the Fulbright Sergio Corbucci Scholarship in Film Directing.
- He serves as Head of International of the Producers Guild of Italy.
- Alessio gave a cinema Masterclass together with film director Jim Sheridan, at Ischia Global Film Festival, a Tedx talk in Vancouver, Canada, and a cinema Masterclass at New Film Makers Los Angeles.
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