Sergio Basso

Background

About Sergio Basso

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 feature film "The missing star" in China, where he had been living. He has been shooting several shorts, documentaries, commercials and a first feature film,"Elementary loves", to be released in December 2013. His films got selected and won awarded in many major documentary, animation- and short- international festivals (e.g. Locarno, Nyon, Annecy, Beijing, Turin). He co-worked with UN, NOKIA, SONY, RAI & RAICinema, TELECOM Italy, Save the Children, Oxford University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Università La Sapienza - Rome, “Il Corriere della Sera”, IlSole24ore publishing house, SKIRA publishing house, the Istituto dei Beni Culturali in Emilia Romagna, Università degli Studi - Milano, the MAAXI Museum in Rome. More recently he devoted himself to developing crossmedia platforms for the Italian newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera" and experimenting the contribution of animation in documentary film-making, winning Annecy International Film Festival. He graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Rome), in Directing (2006); from Jurij Alschitz and GITIS (Moscow) Theatre School (2002); from Venice University, in Oriental Languages from Milan University, in Classics (2011). He lived in China for a while, pursuing his academic studies in Oriental Art. He taught at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Palermo branch, art-history documentary and held several workshops in documentary filmmaking abroad, i.e. at University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a member of the European Documentary Network. 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.