GIUSEPPE PETITTO     

Media Law consultant, producer, director, editor

    EDUCATION:

                Graduate Director at the National Film School (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Rome;

                Graduate EAVE European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs 2000 (MEDIA);

                Student of Robert Mckee's STORY and GENRE seminars in London;

    FILMOGRAPHY:

                1990-92 director of short films, commercials and tv shows;

                1992-98 producer and director of TV commercials, documentaries;

                1998 CRUCIFIGE (Crucify)  documentary 26' 

                1998 LE VOCI FUORI (Voices off)  documentary 45' 

                1999-2000 JUNG ( war ) in the land of the Mujaheddin  documentary 114'  

                2001-02 SANPEET ( poison )  documentary 27'  

                2001-02 SOCIALMENTE PERICOLOSI   documentary 60' 

                2002-03 AFGHANISTAN YEAR 1380 - Collateral Damages  documentary 60'  

    AWARDS:

                Silver Wolf Award (IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2000)

                Actual Award Barcelona 2000 

                Nestor Almendros Award  (Human Rights Watch International Film Festival New York 2001)

                Phoenix Award (Cologne Conference 2001)

                Special mention of the jury, and Audience Award at the One World Film Festival (Prague 2001) 

                Best Feature length Documentary Award at the Vancouver film festival 2001 

                Columbine Award Best Documentary at the Moondance Film Festival (Colorado, USA) 

                2001 Freedom of Expression Honor by The U.S. National Board of Review

                Daunbailò Award at the Genova Film Festival 2002

                Unicef Award at the R.I.F.F. Rome Independent Film Festival 2002,

                Special Mention of the jury at the Festival Internaciònal de cine e derechos umanos 2003 (Barcelona).