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Mattia Torre (Rome, 10 June 1972 - Rome, 19 July 2019) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright and director, known for collaborating on the screenplay, along with Luca Vendruscolo and Giacomo Ciarrapico, of the television series Boris.

Biography
He trained in the theatrical environment of Rome, where he met director and screenwriter Giacomo Ciarrapico.Together with him, in the early nineties, he wrote plays such as L'ufficio, Io non c'entro, Tutto a posto e Piccole anime. The film version of the latter work, in which Torre himself appears in the cast, was released in 1998.

In 2000 he published a book in the form of a diary entitled Faleminderit April '99 Albania during the war. The book recounts a trip to Albania a few weeks after the Kosovo war.

In 2002, together with Luca Vendruscolo, he wrote the feature film Piovono mucche, which won the Solinas Prize for Screenplay In 2003, together with Valerio Aprea, he wrote the theatrical monologue In mezzo al mare, winner of the review Attori in cerca di autore at the Teatro Valle in Rome.

From 2004 to 2011 he wrote the television programme Parla con me, created by Serena Dandini. In 2005 he wrote the play Migliore, starring Valerio Mastandrea. A year later, in 2006, he wrote an episode of I Cesaroni. From 2007 to 2010, with Luca Vendruscolo and Giacomo Ciarrapico, he wrote the TV series Boris and, later, again with Vendruscolo and Ciarrapico, he wrote and directed the feature film of the same name based on the series, which was released in cinemas in 2011.

Also in 2011, he returned to the theatre with the show 456, of which he also made the television sequel for LA7, in Andrea Salerno and Serena Dandini's programme The Show Must Go Off. In 2014, together with Ciarrapico and Vendruscolo, he wrote and directed the film Ogni maledetto Natale. In 2016 he was the author of the TV series Dov'è Mario? together with Corrado Guzzanti. On 6 January 2018, the series La linea verticale was published on RaiPlay, based on the autobiographical book of the same name in which Torre recounts his experience with cancer as a patient at Rome's Regina Elena Hospital.

He passed away on 19 July 2019 at the age of 47, after a long illness. The film Cosa sarà (What will be) was dedicated to him Francesco Bruni with Kim Rossi Stuart.

He was posthumously awarded in 2021 with the David di Donatello for best original screenplay Figli collected by his daughter Emma.

Screenplay

 * Piovono mucche, regia di Luca Vendruscolo (2002)
 * Boris - Il film, regia di Mattia Torre, Giacomo Ciarrapico e Luca Vendruscolo (2011)
 * Ogni maledetto Natale, regia di Mattia Torre, Giacomo Ciarrapico e Luca Vendruscolo (2014)
 * Il grande salto, regia di Giorgio Tirabassi (2019)
 * Figli, regia di Giuseppe Bonito (2020)

Television

 * Baldini e Simoni - serie televisiva (1999-2000)
 * Love Bugs (2004-2007)
 * Parla con me (2004-2011)
 *  Buttafuori - serie televisiva (2006)
 * Boris - serie televisiva (2007-2010)
 * The Show Must Go Off (2012)
 * Dov'è Mario? – serie TV, 4 episodi (2016)
 * Facciamo che io ero (2017)
 * La linea verticale - serie televisiva (2018) - regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura

Director

 * Boris - Il film, regia di Mattia Torre, Giacomo Ciarrapico e Luca Vendruscolo (2011)
 * Ogni maledetto Natale, regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura di Mattia Torre, Giacomo Ciarrapico e Luca Vendruscolo (2014)

Actor

 * Piccole anime, regia di Giacomo Ciarrapico (1998)

Theatre

 * L'ufficio, con Giacomo Ciarrapico, 1994
 * Tutto a posto, con Giacomo Ciarrapico, 1996
 * Io non c'entro, con Giacomo Ciarrapico, 1997
 * Piccole anime, con Giacomo Ciarrapico, 1998
 * In mezzo al mare, 2003
 * Migliore, 2005
 * Gola, 2006
 * 456, 2011
 * Qui e ora, 2013
 * Gola e altri pezzi brevi, 2013
 * Perfetta, 2018

Works

 * In mezzo al mare. Cinque atti comici, Dalai Editore 2012.
 * Boris 2. Il ritorno, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011
 * 456: morte alla famiglia!, Milano, Baldini&Castoldi, 2012.
 * La linea verticale, Milano, Baldini&Castoldi, 2017.
 * In mezzo al mare. Sette atti comici, Segrate, Mondadori, 2019.

Awards and prizes

 * David di Donatello


 * 2021 - Migliore sceneggiatura originale per Figli

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