Pasquale Pozzessere

Pasquale Pozzessere (born in 1957) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career
Born in Lizzano, Taranto in the mid-1980s Pozzessere abandoned his medicine university studies to enter the cinema industry working as a script supervisor for Pupi Avati and as assistant director of Francesco Maselli. After directing a number of short films, he made his feature film debut in 1992, with Verso Sud, for which he was nominated to a David di Donatello for Best New Director  and won the Grolla d'oro in the same category. The film also won the Grand Prix at the Annecy Film Festival.

Filmography

 * Verso Sud (1992)
 * Father and Son (1994)
 * An Eyewitness Account (1997)
 * La vita che verrà (TV, 1999)
 * La porta delle sette stelle (2005)
 * La provinciale (TV, 2006)
 * Cocapop (2010)
 * Mine (2016)