Stefano Casertano

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Stefano Casertano is a film director, producer, screenwriter and author residing in Berlin, Germany and Rome, Italy. Casertano heads the film company "Daring House".[1]

Casertano co-produced the film The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco, awarded a "Silver Lion" as Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival - La Biennale di Venezia[2] in 2019. He directed the narrative VR film "Tales of the march", selected by the 80. Venice Film Festival for the "Venice Immersive" section in 2023.[3]

He has been nominated "Italian Leader" by the Council for the United States and Italy and "Junior Fellow" by the Aspen Institute,[4] and is an alumn of the Venice Biennale College for Virtual Reality.[5]

Film career[edit]

While working in various film productions in Rome, Italy,[6] Casertano completed a B.A. and M.A. in Economics and Business from Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli of Rome, and later an MBA from Columbia University in New York. In 2011 he earned a Ph.D. magna cum laude at the University of Potsdam in politics and held an adjunct professor position at the same university.[7] In 2013, he spent a semester as Visiting Scholar at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, at the Middle-East Institute. His Columbia works have been mentioned by researchers in Harvard[8][9] and by the World Health Organization.[10][11]

In 2011 Casertano founded the movie company "Daring House" in Berlin, Germany, to concentrate on the production of documentary films.[12] His 2016 docufiction "People of Love and Rage" ("Gente di amore e Rabbia") won the DocFeed Film Festival in Eindhoven,[13] received the Special Mention of the Jury at the Rome Independent Film Festival[14] and has been selected by the Venice Film Week and the Broadway International Film Festival.[15][16] The production "The Ballad of the Homeless" by Monica Manganelli screened at Cannes Film Festival and has been awarded, among the others, a "Nastro d'Argento" prize in Italy, and won the "LA Short Fest", an Academy Awards Qualifier.[17]

In 2021, his VR project "Tales of the March" was selected by the Venice Biennale for the development program "Biennale College VR"[18] and was granted support by the Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg.[19] Shooting started in March 2023[20] and the film was later selected by the "Venice Immersive" section of the 80. Venice Film Festival.[21]

His film "The Poet who would be King" ("Il Poeta che volle farsi Re"), dedicated to poet Gabriele d'Annunzio and his "Impresa di Fiume", has been produced by Cinecittà - Luce and by Fondazione Vittoriale degli Italiani, starring historian Giordano Bruno Guerri and art-critic Vittorio Sgarbi. The film has been presented at Vittoriale for the 100th anniversary of d'Annunzio's ill-fated endeavour.[22]

In 2022, film company Titanus announced the production of Casertano's fiction film "La Guerra di Elena".[23] The film has been granted a selective contribution by the Italian Culture Ministry.[24]

Journalism[edit]

Casertano contributes as a columnist to the Italian newspaper Milano Finanza[25] and is a regular guest at TV-show A Fondo on the German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, covering topics of international politics and economics.[26]

His articles are syndicated on Project Syndicate[27] and on RealClearWorld.[28]

Filmography[edit]

  • "La Guerra di Elena" ("Elena at War"), 2024, fiction, 110' - Director and co-producer[29] - in production
  • "Tales of the March", 2023, immersive short, 12' - Producer and director[30]
  • "American Ring", 2022, Documentary, colour, 80' - Producer and director[31]
  • "The Poet who would be King" ("Il Poeta che volle farsi Re"), 2022, Documentary, colour, 85' - Producer and director[32]
  • "The mafia is no Longer what it used to be" ("La mafian non è più quella di una volta") by Franco Maresco, 2019, Documentary, colour, 105' - Co-producer[33]
  • "People of Love and Rage", 2016, Docufiction, B/W, 88' - Writer and Director[34]
  • "The Ballad of the Homeless" by Monica Manganelli, 2015, Animation, colour, 12' - Executive Producer[35]
  • "There Was Once a Sea", 2015, Documentary, colour, 84' - Writer and Director[36]
  • "The Last Days of Tacheles", 2014, Documentary, colour, 93' - Writer and Director[37]

Books[edit]

  • Casertano, Stefano (2023), La Terza Rivoluzione Digitale. Baldini + Castoldi ISBN 979-1254940990
  • Casertano, Stefano (2012), Germania Copia & Incolla. goWare. ISBN 978-88-97324-37-9 EPUB
  • Casertano, Stefano; Ruffo, Pietro (2011), L'enfer c'est les autres: Exposition du 25 mars au 28 mai 2011. Communic Art. ISBN 978-2916277301
  • Casertano, Stefano (2011), La Guerra del Clima. Francesco Brioschi Editore. ISBN 978-88-95399-45-4
  • Casertano, Stefano (2009), Sfida all'Ultimo Barile. Francesco Brioschi Editore. ISBN 978-88-95399-22-5

Publications[edit]

  • Casertano, Stefano (2023), Guerre di Religioni, in La Nuova Europa, Febbraio 2023
  • Casertano, Stefano (2016), Russische und Arabische Öl- und Gasexporte, in Atlas des arabischen Frühlings - Eine Weltregion im Umbruch, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
  • Casertano, Stefano (2015), Broken Peaces: The Israeli-Palestinian Hyperconflict. World Affairs, January/February 2015
  • Casertano, Stefano (2013), The New Geopolitics of Energy Resources - Global Politics and Supply Security. BIGS Studie September 2013
  • Casertano, Stefano (March 2013). "International oil companies in the post-studio era: Strategic responses of energy majors to the 2003–2008 price boom". Energy Strategy Reviews. 1 (3): 211–217. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2012.12.005.
  • Casertano, Stefano (2012), Our Land, Our Oil! Natural Resources, Local Nationalism and Violent Secession. Springer. ISBN 978-3-531-19443-1

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stefano Casertano". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  2. ^ "'Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be' ('La Mafia non e piu quella di una volta'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  3. ^ "Biennale Cinema 2023 | Tales of the March". La Biennale di Venezia. 2023-07-12. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  4. ^ "Stefano Casertano - Festival dell'energia". 2011.festivaldellenergia.it. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
  5. ^ "The Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality workshop draws to a close". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  6. ^ "Stefano Casertano, producer, Berlin". Crew United. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  7. ^ "- Stefano Casertano Universität Potsdam". puls.uni-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  8. ^ O'Sullivan, Meghan; Overland, Indra; Sandalow, David (2017). "The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy". Faculty Research Working Paper Series. RWP17-027. Harvard Kennedy School.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  9. ^ Pflugmann, Fridolin; De Blasio, Nicola (2020). "The Geopolitics of Renewable Hydrogen in Low-Carbon Energy Markets". Geopolitics, History, and International Relations. 12 (1): 9–44. doi:10.22381/GHIR12120201. S2CID 218663978.
  10. ^ Dowhaniuk, Nicholas; Hartter, Joel; Ryan, Sadie J.; Palace, Michael W.; Congalton, Russell G. (March 2018). "The impact of industrial oil development on a protected area landscape: demographic and social change at Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda". Population and Environment. 39 (3): 197–218. doi:10.1007/s11111-017-0287-x. S2CID 254932442.
  11. ^ Dowhaniuk, Nicholas (2016). Assessing the Impact of Industrial Oil Development, Human Population Growth, and Post-Conflict Regrowth in an African Biodiversity Hotspot (Thesis).
  12. ^ "Daring House - News". Daring House. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  13. ^ "PERSBERICHT DOCfeed award winnaars". Docfeed. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  14. ^ "THE AWARDS OF THE XV EDITION OF THE RIFF: "YOU'LL NEVER BE ALONE" BY ALEX ANWANDTER. THE QUEER CHILEAN FILM WINS THE RIFF AWARDS". Rome Independent Film Festival. 1 December 2016.
  15. ^ Designova. "Venice Film Week". www.venicefilmweek.com. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  16. ^ "Broadway International Film Festival". www.broadwayfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  17. ^ "The Ballad of the Homeless, (short animated film-2015)". Monica Manganelli (in Italian). 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  18. ^ "Biennale Cinema 2021 | Biennale College Cinema Virtual Reality: the 12-19 January workshop". La Biennale di Venezia. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  19. ^ "Medienboard fördert 16 Projekte im Bereich 'Innovative Audiovisuelle Inhalte'" [Medienboard supports 16 projects in the field of 'Innovative Audiovisual Content']. GamesMarkt (in German). 10 December 2020.
  20. ^ @medienboard (March 30, 2023). "Dreharbeiten in Brandenburg für den immersiven Fiction-Film 'Tales of the March' #mbbgefördert Das Projekt von Regisseur Stefano Casertano und VR Creator Tim Deussen war 2021 bei Venice VR @la_Biennale College ausgewählt!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  21. ^ Barone, Martina (2023-09-06). "Tales of the March è l'esperienza direzionale VR sull'Olocausto". The Hollywood Reporter Roma (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  22. ^ "Festival Dannunziano: ritmo, velocità e movimento" [d'Annunzio Festival: Rhythm, Speed and Movement]. L'Opinione delle Libertà (in Italian). 25 August 2021.
  23. ^ "I nuovi progetti Titanus" [The new Titanus projects]. Cinematografo (in Italian). 4 October 2022.
  24. ^ "Elena la matta - film in lavorazione - film & docu". Filmitalia (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  25. ^ "Ricerca - MilanoFinanza.it". www.milanofinanza.it. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  26. ^ Rusia comenzó su nueva gran ofensiva que Kiev había anticipado | A fondo DW, retrieved 2023-04-08
  27. ^ "Log in or Register - Project Syndicate". www.project-syndicate.org. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  28. ^ "RCW Search Page". www.realclearworld.com. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  29. ^ Francesco, Davide Di (2022-10-05). "Titanus, svelati i nuovi progetti in sviluppo per il 2023-2024". Ciak Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  30. ^ "Biennale Cinema 2021 | Biennale College Cinema Virtual Reality: the 12-19 January workshop". La Biennale di Venezia. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  31. ^ "American Ring: il documentario sull'incredibile mondo del wrestling- Video Gazzetta.it". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 21 September 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  32. ^ "Il poeta che volle farsi re - 2021 - documentari - film & docu". Filmitalia (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  33. ^ The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be, retrieved 2020-02-06
  34. ^ People of Love and Rage, retrieved 2020-02-06
  35. ^ "The Ballad of the Homeless – New Europe Film Sales". Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  36. ^ There Was Once a Sea, retrieved 2020-02-06
  37. ^ The Last Days of Tacheles, retrieved 2020-02-06
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