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Complete Filmography

Hey Joe
2024
Writer
In 1944 Dean Barry, an American sailor, 23, arrives in Naples, a city destroyed by bombing after the liberation of Italy. Dean meets Lucia, a young an...

Madame Luna
2024
Screenplay
Inspired by real life events, Madame Luna tells the story of an Eritrean refugee who is washed ashore in Libya and survives to become one of the most ...

Palazzina LAF
2023
Screenplay
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get ri...

Desiré
2023
Co-Writer
Desiré is a Neapolitan girl of Senegalese origins, she is sixteen years old and lives day by day. She has no friends, no interests, no great passions,...

Padre Pio
2023
Writer
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of ...

La divina cometa
2023
Writer

Scarlet
2023
Screenplay
A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.
Un milione di Italiani (Non sono Italiani)
2022
Director
Short by Maurizio Braucci.

Martin Eden
2019
Writer
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Mart...

Piranhas
2019
Story, Screenplay
A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosse...

Ragazzi da Paura
2019
Director
Shot in the juvenile prison of Nisida, in Naples, the short film is the result of a screenwriting workshop held with some inmates of the juvenile pris...

Nato a Casal di Principe
2017
Writer
In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While ...

The Intruder
2017
Writer
Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, l...

Lost and Beautiful
2015
as Pulcinella
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who sp...

Lost and Beautiful
2015
Screenplay
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who sp...

Mafia Millionaires
2014
Thanks
The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life and th...

Pasolini
2014
Screenplay
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, sh...

Black Souls
2014
Screenplay
A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage ...

The Interval
2012
Screenplay
A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her ...

Reality
2012
Screenplay
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fra...

Tatanka
2011
Screenplay
Clemente Russo portrays himself in the story of a promising boxer who grew up in the Neapolitan mob heartland.

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
2010
Writer
Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to ...

Gomorrah
2008
Screenplay
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: th...
La baracca
2005
Writer

Paris, Dabar
2003
Screenplay
Stanza 52
N/A
Director
In a luxurious hotel in Naples, there is something magical and mysterious about room 52. The only person aware of this is Serena, an eccentric fifty-y...