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Sergio Basso

Sergio Basso’s biography

Sergio Basso started as a theatre director, in Teatraz Drama Company, then he went on to the movie industry. He was Gianni Amelio’s assistant director on his last production in China, The missing star, and shot several shorts and documentaries. He graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Direction Department, Rome (2006). He graduated from Jurij Alschitz and GITIS (Moscow) Theatre School (2002). He lived in China for a while, pursuing his academic studies in Oriental Art; he graduated from Venice University, Oriental Languages Department (1999).

He is a member of the European Documentary Network. He taught at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Palermo branch, art-history documentary. He is one of the winner of 2009 Solinas Prize- Documentary for the Large Screen and of the Movin’Up Scholarship for Young Italian Artists. He co-worked with Oxford University, Università La Sapienza, Rome, IlSole24ore publishing house, SKIRA publishing house, the Istituto dei Beni Culturali in Emilia Romagna, Università degli Studi di Milano, the MAAXI Museum in Rome.

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Sergio Basso’s filmography

title length year one-sentence

synopsis

financing sources and

broadcasters

involved; Festivals

Giallo a Milano

52’ Under

production

HDV A ballad on the Chinese community in Milan and its recent social friction with the Italian police. La Sarraz Pictures

Premio Provincia di

Milano- Cinema Fuori

Formato

Premio “Meuilleur Film de Commande” all’Annecy Animation Film Festival 2010 2010 “Best young director – documentary” at China International Youth Film Festival 2010 Euganea Movie Movement (festival): Premio Migliore Animazione (Giallo a Milano) 2010 Globi d'Oro: Nomination Migliore Documentario 2009 Torino Film Festival 2010 Nyon Film Festival 2010 2010 Bellaria Film Festival 2010 BIF&ST – Bari International Film&Tv Festival in uscita in sala in Italia dal 19 febbraio 2010 uscito in Francia, Cina, UK 2010 Ischia Film Festival 2010 Bolzano 4FF 2010 Up (stairs): una

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Notte sui Tetti, Lingotto, Torino 2010 Divercity Doc 2010 Festival "Histoires d'It. Le Nouveau Documentaire Italien", Parigi 2010 Sulle Tracce del Documentario 2010 Terra di Cinema - Festival de Tremblay-en-France 2010 Terra di Cinema - Festival du Cinéma Italien, Parigi, Istituto Italiano di Cultura 2010 Italia DOC 2010 Il Cinema Italiano Visto da Milano

2009 Filmmaker

Doc Film

tiKINÒ kabaret

2008 DV-Cam 4 shorts for Locarno

Film Festival

2008 Locarno Film

Festival

Il viaggio di Gesù

80’ 2007 35mm Aroad-movie

documentare in Israel

and Palestine

2007 Locarno Film

Festival - sezione Ici et

ailleurs

2007 Tertio Millennio

Produzione RaiCinema,

Fidia FILM

Dora

18’ 2006 A true story; an

original Freudian

case.

The only one the

genius from

Vienna didn’t

solve: it was a

love story.

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Provincia di Trento Comune di Rovereto 2007 Locarno International Film Festival – Pardi di Domani 2008 Emir Kusturica’s Kunderstorf Film Festival 2007 Drama International Film

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Festival, Greece 2007 Trento Film Festival 2007 MART – Rovereto 2007 Ischia Film Festival 2008 Officine Film festival, Bologna 2008 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market 2008 CortoinBra 2008 Salento Finibus Terrae 2008 Festival del Cinema Europeo – Lecce 2008 Teatro Bellini la SETTIMANA CORTA - NUOVI SENTIERI 7° edizione – naples 2008 Tangiers Film Festival

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Getting lost

52’ 2005 A community of

mad people try to

heal their ailing

soul by working

the soil and

breeding animals.

On the top of a

mountain in

central Italy.

Broadcast on Swiss Television 2006 Bellaria Film Festival - Jury Special Prize 2006 RomaDoc International Film Festival – Post-production prize 2006 Berlinale – Talent Campus 2006 ITALIA DOC Festival – Casa del Cinema, Roma 2006 Il cinema italiano visto da Milano, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Milano 2006 Tempo moderno. Da Van Gogh a Warhol, Palazzo ducale, Genova 2005 Torino Film Festival - “Avanti” Critics Award 2004 Bellaria Film Festival - Best Story Award

February 30

8’30” 2004 The last day of an

old man. He dances

with death.

2006 San Francisco Film Festival – Nomination Golden Gate Award Best International Short 2006 Poitiers Film Festival – Student Jury Prize 2006 Lille Film Festival 2006 Peterborough Space

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Shorts Film Festival 2006 Novara Film Festival 2006 Cortopotere – Bergamo 2006 Genova Film Festival 2006 Festival dei Due Mondi - Spoleto

Fuhao [Symbol]

15’ 2003 The love between a

taxi driver and his

radio-speaker.

Compagnia Teatraz

2003 Space for

Imagination, Beijing

2004 Medfilmfestival,

Rome

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Commercials

SPAZIO – MAXXI

13’ 2010 The making-of

of the Museum

of XXI century

Art Museum in

Rome

MAAXI – CSC productions

A box for everything

12’ 2010 HDV UN finances the

training of

Lebanese

industries in

packaging

design: it’s the

Libanpack

project

ONU – sede di Beirut

Diventa videomaker

30’x3

uscite

2009 HDV A course on the

jobs in the

movie

industries

De Agostini Editore

Réportage Cina

40’ 200

8

HDV 8 x 10’

réportages on

present-day

China

De Agostini Editore

Il futuro che vorrei

16' 200

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Co-

regista

What do young

Italians hope?

prod. Alice Guy, per

associazione D52

Biblioteche d’Italia

15’x4 200

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regia A wonderful

journey among

the Italian

Renaissance

libraries,

searchig for

Persian

manuscripts

Prod. Ambasciata

Iraniana presso la Santa

Sede, Roma

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Movies in other roles:

The missing star,

by Gianni Amelio

140’ 2005 Assistant

director,

dialogue

writer

The odyssey of

an Italian steel-

worker in China,

to find and fix a

single gear of a

blust-furnace.

Exon, Cattleya

2006 Mostra del

Cinema di

Venezia

Cinesi a Bari,

by Paolo De Falco

52’ 2008 Assistant

director

and

translator

prod. Regione

Puglia e Film

Grad, 2008

Biblioteche d’Italia 15’x4 2006 cameraman A grand tour in

the Italian old

Renaissance

libraries and

their Persian

manuscripts.

Prod.

Ambasciata

Iraniana presso

la Santa Sede,

Roma

Mitraglia e il verme,

by Daniele Segre

2005 Assistant

director

Prod. I cammelli

snc

Oliviero rising,

by Riki Roseo

2005 script

doctor and

assistant

director

prod. Astra Film,

Passworld

Education 2007 European Scriptwriting Master – Mediterranean Film Institute, Greece 2004-2006

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, Directing Department, Diplome, Roma

2000-2002

Three-year Masterclass in theatre directing, Jurij Alschitz and Gitis, Moscow

2000-2003

Workshop with Marcello Bartoli on commedia dell’arte, Teatro Metastasio di Prato; with Peter Clough on Harold Pinter, Sanminiato; with Eimuntas Nekrosius on “The master and Marguerite” by M. Bulgakov at Biennale di Venezia

1998- 1999

"Musica, teatro, eventi culturali nuova imprenditorialità giovanile", master at Camera di Commercio di Milano and Teatro del Buratto, Milan

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Other professional experiences

Theatre stagings

2005

Il martello sui coglioni fumanti, Teatro Rialtoccupato, Roma

2004

The journey, International Drama Show, Shanghai

2003 Festival Protei at Centro di Ricerca per il Teatro, Milano

2002

Assistant director in Mon coeur pleure et mon âme n’a plus de mots, by Rodrigo Garcìa, directed by Philippe Delaigue at Ecole Nationale d’Arts et Téchniques Théâtrales (ENSATT), Lyon

2002

Leaking from every orifice, by Claire Dowie, at Festival Lamanicatagliata, Siena-Modena-Bologna; Festival Garofano Verde, Roma; Teatro CometaOff, Roma

2001

Parentless muses, by Marc-Michel Bouchard, at Teatro Colosseo, Roma; Festival Confini, Modena; Festival Euroméditerraéen de Théâtre, Mostagenem, Algeria

Hamlet bits, from W. Shakespeare, at Montecuccoli castle (MN) compagnia Teatraz

Swimming Cechov, from The seagull, by A.P. Cechov, Carpi (MN)

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1999

Antigone Z, by Paolo Bignamini, Festival di Castellanza; Teatro dell’Acqua, Gargano (Brescia); Teatro Ratti (Legnano).

1995 Dialoghi con Leucò, by Cesare Pavese, Teatro Wagner, Milano

1992 Il girotondo by A. Schnitzler, Teatro Libero, Milano

Theatre roles 2008 De Agostini course “The Chinese for everybody”, Chinese-speaking actor 2005 Workshop with Pёtr Fomenko, Teatro Metastasio, Prato 1995 Glass managerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Chiara Villa and Maria Mauti, Teatro Libero

1994 All'uscita, by Luigi Pirandello, Premio del Concorso di Letture Pirandelliane

Il guerriero, lo spirito e l'amazzone nel verso immortale di Ugo Foscolo, by Carlo Emilio Gadda, Teatro Il Trebbo, a Milano The birds by Aristophanes, Teatro Studio, Milano; II Festival Internazionale di Teatro Greco per i Giovani, Piazza Armerina, INDA

1993 The man and the soldier, by G.B. Shaw, Teatro Gnomo, Milano Ho dyskolos by Menandros, Teatro Gnomo, Milano

1992 Lisistrata di Aristophanes, directed by Narcisa Bonati, Teatro Libero La cantatrice calva by E. Ionesco, Teatro Libero

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Oriental Art History

Professional experiences 2005-2007

Assistant at Oriental Art History, Oriental Langugages Department, Università La Sapienza, Rome; works for Istituto Beni Culturali, Emilia-Romagna

2003 Works for Museo dei Popoli e delle culture, PIME, Milan 1999-2004

Lecturer on Oriental Art History, in Italy and abroad: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Circolo Filologico Milanese, Amici dell’Arte di Bellinzona, Marina Bulgari, etc.

1999

Touristic guide in China for Equipe Incentive Museum guide at Hokusai - il vecchio pazzo per la pittura, Palazzo Reale, Milano; Assisi non più Assisi at useo Diocesano, Milano Works for Giò Marconi Contemprary Art Gallery, Milan

Publications 2008 Supervisor for I caratteri cinesi, De Agostini

Writes for www.cinamilano.it

2007 AA.VV., Lo sguardo altrove. Il progetto Etno e il patrimonio culturale extraeuropeo in Emilia-Romagna,

IBC

2006 Sergio Basso, Filippo Salviati, Cina, Edizioni IlSole24Ore

2004 AA. VV., Ritratti dalla Cina imperiale, 2004, Torino

2003 AA. VV., Il patrimonio dell’umanità. I complessi architettonici, SKIRA

2002 AA. VV., Il patrimonio dell’umanità. Siti archeologici e centri storici, SKIRA AA. VV., Archaeological Sites and Urban Centres, SKIRA AA. VV., Monumental Sites, SKIRA 2001-2002 Writes for www.worldonhand.net, www.manjusri.it e www.lifegate.it

2000 "Biying: il teatro cinese delle ombre", in Quaderni Asiatici, 2000 1994 "La figura di Iò in Eschilo", in Dioniso - Rivista di studi sul teatro antico, vol. LXIV - fasc. I, Siracusa,

1994 2002-2004 Writes for Hystrio theatre magazine

Education

2003 Hanyu shuiping kaoshi scholarship, Beijing Normal University, Beijing. 2001 II International Convention of Asia Scholars, Berlin. 1999 Laurea, Oriental Languages, score 110/110 cum laude, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia

Final year student for laurea, Classics, Università degli Studi di Milano. 1997 Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, Erasmus Scholarship 1995 University of California – Berkeley 1994 “L’Islām e noi”, refresher course, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Languages spoken

English, French: fluent. Spanish, Chinese: intermediate.

Mobile +39.328.8256604 www.teatraz.org

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via Leone Tolstoi, 49 – 20146 Milan - Italy Born in Milan, June, 11, 1975