Giuseppe Piva

Giuseppe Piva is an Italian Film Director based in Milan. Graduated at Scuola di Alta Formazione Cinematografica by Marco Bellocchio, in 2014 he won the Canon Italia Award with his short film "Es". Among the other recognitions he received also 20 nominations and 5 award (including Best Thriller Director) at the Rome Web Awards with six episodes tv series Nero, also selected at Rome Fiction Fest 2015. In 2017 he directed the short film Memoria, written by Valeria Mingolla, Laura Fusconi and Fabio Maselli, on the theme of new technologies. The protagonist is an extraordinary Nino Formicola (the famous Gaspare of the Drive-In) with Letizia Bravi. In 2018 he won Racconti Local Plus #2 of IDM Alto Adige/Südtirol and the Province of Bolzano for the development of the short film The Receptionist which he will make the following year. The film, which sees the magnificent participation of Denise Tantucci, is written by Alessio Posar and produced by Alex Pescosta.