Biography

Saverio Costanzo was born in Rome on September 28, 1975. He studied communications sociology and got his degree with a thesis on Italian-Americans from Brooklyn. He moved to New York where he made a documentary in episodes in the daily life on the public space of Milleluci café in Brooklyn.

He remained two years in New York during which he worked as cameraman and writer for documentaries for the production company GVG Usa.
In 2000 he wrote, filmed, directed and edited 6 episodes of a new docu-fiction set within the red room (emergency resuscitation) of the Hospital “Policlinico Umberto I” in Rome. With Sala rossa he won the special mention from critics at the Turin International Festival.

Private is his first feature film and it got several international awards, for exemple, The Golden Leopard (2004 Locarno Film Festival), The Silver Ribbon for Best New Director, the ‘David di Donatello’ Award, the Golden Ciak, the Golden Globe, the Silver Spike (Valladolid Film Festival), the Fipresci Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Prize of the Public at the Lisbon International Film Festival, just to mention some of the most important awards.

Motivation for the attribution of the Liberation Award

Saverio Costanzo’s directing style is based on revealing emotions, capturing the truth of facts, catching reality through “a third eye”, being a discreet watcher.

The brand-new movie director, Saverio Costanzo, winner of many prestigious awards, has been praised by the strucking critics and the audience as one of the most original film maker who made his début in the Italian world cinema
In “Private” Saverio Costanzo talks about war and what happens in private life and in the consciousness of the characters with an extraordinary and courageous approach to a new way of film making.

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