Stefano Anselmi

Graduated from the Civic School of Cinema in Milan, since 1999 he began his professional career as first assistant director for cinema and TV series.Over the years he has collaborated with important Italian directors such as Giacomo Battiato, Andrea Molaioli, Carlo Vanzina, Gianni Lepre, Sergio Martino e Lodovico Gasparini in projects such as "Suburra. The series "," Max and Hélène "," L'allenatore nel pallone 2 ","La donna che ritorna"and " Trilussa ". Goes directing with the short film "Alice", starring Isabella Ragonese and in competition in various national and European festivals: the film won the Best Social Awareness Short Film at the festival I've seen Films by Rutger Hauer, the prize for best actress protagonist for Isabella Ragonese at the Fano Film Festival and was distributed by the Istituto Luce. Also as director, he then directed numerous episodes of the two seasons of the "Agrodolce" fiction, produced by Rai Fiction and made important commercial films for clients such as Bocconi University, Poste Italiane and Sky Italy. For the Milan Expo 2015 he curated the staging of the Olos multilingual holographic project (copyright Daniele Baldacci, produced by Rataplan) and in the same year he directed the docufilm "Racconti della Briganta" with Lina Sastri. Since 2009 he holds courses in direction and production at the Civic School of Cinema "Luchino Visconti" in Milan and is currently the coordinator of the Production course; he wrote essays on literature and cinema for Il Castoro and Mursia. In 2018 he directed his first film for the cinema, the comedy "Non è vero ma credo", written and starring Nunzio Fabrizio Rotondo and Paolo Vita, produced by Notorious Pictures, Lotus Production and Minerva Pictures; this film was released in the autumn of 2018 and is currently available on Sky on demand. In 2019 he then directed the documentary film "The first gaze. The Italian who invented cinema", dedicated to the figure of the Italian pioneer Filoteo Alberini, produced by Daniele Baldacci for Blue Cinema TV. The film was purchased by Rai Storia and obtained recognition of cultural interest from MIBACT. Also in the same year, "Non è vero ma ci credo", with the international title "Happy go lucky", was distributed in streaming by Amazon Prime Video worldwide and has had a cinema distribution in some countries of Asia, South America and Europe. In his professional career he has collaborated with important Italian film companies, among others Notorious Pictures, Lotus Production, Cattleya, 11 Marzo Cinema, Minerva Pictures, Italian International Film, Titanus and Dania Film.