Marco Speroni

Marco Speroni started out as an artist then he directed many art and cultural documentaries with his own company, Officinema Productions, based in Parma, Italy. In 1995 he directed the short "An afternoon in April" screened at Venice Film Festival and Turin Film Festival. In 1996 he moved to Rome and his screenplay "What's love got to do with it" was the winner of the prestigious Premio Solinas Award for Best Screenplay, from which he then went on to direct his debut feature film. In 2000 he began a long-running partnership with Italy's state owned TV networks - RAI - directing a number of their staple programs. In later years he has also worked for Sky Italy. In 2011 he produced and directed "In Hell's Heart" a Docfiction shot in the war zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2014 he directs the documentary "Adolescents migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia" In 2016 he directed "2 Girls" a documentary that has won a number of awards at Festivals around the world. In 2018 he directed "Outside" a documentary filmed in the USA, Uganda and Ireland about people wrongly convicted and sentenced to death till they proved their innocence. In 2020 he directed the documentary "Genova San Giorgio, Ponte Italiano" featuring Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini. In 2021 he completed the documentary, "A Declaration Of Love," in which he shows his singular way of digging into the deepest and most hidden emotions of Curtis McCarty, a man who spent 22 years on death row in an Oklahoma prison for a crime he didn't commit.