Riccardo Cannella

Grown up on the island of Ustica, moved to Rome after high school, where he studied film directing at the "Libera Università del Cinema", graduating with the short movie "Quando nulla cambia tutto invecchia", which experienced notable success with the critics. Right after the graduation, he starts to work in different cinematographic productions, receiving the possibility to learn from the directors like Sergio Castellitto, Michele Placido, and Giacomo Campiotti. In 2012 he decides to use up all of his savings to auto produce the series Run Away, which was an extraordinary success with the critics, receiving numerous national and international acknowledgments, enabling him, furthermore, to receive the award for the best direction at the Rome Web Fest, at Los Angeles Web Fest and at Festival IMMaginario Festival IMMaginario in Perugia. 2014 is the time of Web Horror Story, a new series chosen together with Run Away for distribution abroad, especially in France, where they are broadcasted an exclusive at Canal +, and the documentary Dietro al Volante, which talks about the famous Sicilian driver Nino Vaccarella and about the first car race in the world, the Targa Florio.