Alessandro Piva

​Alessandro Piva, born in Salerno in 1966, is a photographer, film editor, and screenwriter, having explored the film business all-round. After studying Film Editing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia", the National Film School, he won the Solinas Award for Best Screenplay in 1992 and 1993, and shot several documentary films in Italy, Africa, South America, South-East Asia, and the Middle-East. He directed two feature films, Lacapagira, presented at the Berlin Film Festival and winner of the 2000 David di Donatello; and Mio cognato, presented at the 2003 Locarno Film Festival.