Sergio Basso

Sergio Basso started as a theatre director, in Teatraz Drama Company, then he went on to the movie industry. He was Gianni Amelio's assistant director on his last production in China, "The missing star". He directed several documentaries as well as one feature film. His films got selected and won awarded in many major documentary-, animation- and short- international festivals (e.g. Locarno, Nyon, Annecy, Turin, Moscow). He graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Direction Department, Rome (2006); from Jurij Alschitz and GITIS (Moscow) Theatre School (2002). He lived in China for a while, pursuing his academic studies in Oriental Art; he graduated from Venice University, Oriental Languages Department (1999); from Milan University, in Classics (2011). He is a member of the European Documentary Network. He taught at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Palermo branch, art-history documentary and held several workshops in documentary filmmaking abroad, i.e. at University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is one of the winners of 2009 Solinas Prize- Documentary for the Large Screen and of the Movin'Up Scholarship for Young Italian Artists. He co-worked with RAI & RAICinema, Telecom Italy, Save the Children, "Il Corriere della Sera", IlSole24ore publishing house, Skira publishing house, the MAAXI Museum in Rome, the Istituto dei Beni Culturali in Emilia Romagna. More recently he devoted himself to developing cross-media platforms for the Italian newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera" and experimenting the contribution of animation in documentary film-making, winning Annecy International Film Festival. "Elementary love" is his first feature film, released in 2014 in Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Canada. It is a children's film. It got selected at Moscow Film Festival and Giffoni Film Festival. A novel with the same title has been published by Salani Publishing House. In 2014 he has directed a documentary in Beijing for CCTV, the Chinese national television channel, in Chinese, for Chinese audience, about the Han dynasty. He has directed several children's cartoons, too.