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Alessandro Rossetto (March 21, 1963 ) is a italian documentary and film director, producer and screenwriter.

Early life
Rossetto was born in Padua on March 21, 1963. After graduating from Padua's classical high school, he moved to Bologna to attend the Cultural Anthropology course, where he graduated with a thesis about the uses and the possible techniques of audiovisual's field research. In an interview he explained the relationship he has with his city of birth: "'Lasciai Padova agli inizi degli anni '80, quando c'era un vero e proprio stato di polizia: sembrava di essere a Santiago del Cile. Quello che hanno chiamato riflusso a Padova aveva preso una forma piuttosto violenta: era veramente difficile vivere a Padova allora. Io l'ho lasciata un po' per questo e anche perché gli studi mi portavano altrove'"Because of his interest in this topic, he decided to continue his studies at the Centre de Recherche Cinèmatographique dell'Universitè Paris Nanterre. He'll graduate there in visual Anthropology and documentary cinema. In Paris, he got to know the photography of Berendo Gardin and other printings in which, as he said, we can see "captured and brought strength that he never saw anywhere else" essentials for his decision to dedicate his work to the documentary cinema.

At the end of his studies, he started to work in the world of professional cinema as a camera operator, moving then to director of photography; in the end, he'll enter the world of screenwriting and direction.

Film Career
In 1989, while co-director of Nerosubianco with Gabriella Morandi, he presented it at the 7th Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani "Spazio Aperto", now known as Torino Film Festival, where he got guaranteed exposure to the cinematographic environment.

We don't have clear information about his work until 1997. In the same year, he was the director of Il Fuoco di Napoli, with both Italian and French production because financially favored by the Centre National de la Cinèatographie. In this film, he worked with Catya Casasola for the writing, was co-producer with Francesca Noè, and worked as the camera operator with Gian Enrico Bianchi, who was also the director of photography. During the release of the film, it earned the first prize, tie with Valades Ousitaned of Diego Anghilante and Fredo Valla, in the category of Beni Culturali, Arte, Etnografia at the 4th edition of the Premio Libero Bizzarri, a festival dedicated to the documentary category held in San Benedetto del Tronto.

Two years later we see him directing the documentary Bibione Bye Bye One, co-produced with the German television network ZDF-Arte.

In 1999 he was selected to be a part of the section Sopralluoghi Italiani at the 17th edition of the Torino Film Festival. The following year he ranked second, even with Intervista a mia madre of Giovanni Piperno and Agostino Ferrente, in the category Best Documentary at the 7th edition of Premio Libero Bizzarri.

In 2001 he's director and writer of Chiusura in cooperation with Fandango, ZDF-Arte, Tele+, Yle 2, and OY Millenium Film. In the same year, he won the "Best Documentary" prize in the Italian contest section of the 42nd Festival dei Popoli and got sorted in the section "Concorso DOC 2001" at the 19th Torino Film Festival.

In 2002 won the second prize in the section Best Italian Documentary at the 9th Premio Libero Bizzarri.

In 2003 he's director and screenwriter of the short film Nic dwa razy - Nulla due volte, inspired and dedicated to the winner of the Literature Nobel prize of 1996, Wislawa Szymborska ; it was picked in 2005 for the Images' category of the 16th Trieste Film Festival.

In 2006 he wrote and directed the documentary about Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, founder of the homonymous publishing house. Entitled with the same name, the film was produced by Eskimosa, Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, and Pandora Film, with the co-production of ZDF-Art, SRK SSR Idèe Suisse, and RTSI. In the same year, we can see the film was selected in the category "Cineasti del Presente/Fuori Concorso" at the 59th edition of the Festival di Locarno. In 2007 was picked at the Solothurn Film Festival, for the category Swiss Panorama.

Belonging to the successive year is Raul, one of the two first episodes about the musicians of the collections L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio: I diari del ritorno. The other episode, Houcine, was directed by Leonardo di Costanzo. Both of the episodes were produced by Bianca Film, Rai Cinema and Apollo 11, and both were nationally previewed in the section Extra - Other visions at the 2nd CINEMA, a national party held in Rome. The idea was born after the realization of the documentary L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio by Agostino Ferranto, based on the homonymous multiethnic orchestra born in Rome's district, Esquilino. Raul is the name of the character Raul Scebba, drummer and bass voice. He was followed by Rossetto to his native land in Argentina, where he worked for the "Teatro dell'Opera" of La Plata, his native city.

The 3rd edition of the New York Documentary Film Festival - Festival dei Popoli decided to dedicate him a retrospective in the Italian Chronicles section to testimony his importance as a documentary film director even at an international level. The documentaries which were shown there were Il fuoco di Napoli (1997), Bibione Bye Bye One (1999), Chiusura (2001) and Feltrinelli (2006) .

In 2012 he wrote and directed Vacanze di Guerra, produced by Enrico Capra for Cinecittà Luce and Graffiti Doc, with the economic sustainment by Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Regione Piemonte, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, and the Media Program of Develop by European Union.

When he used to talk about cinema, he never described it as a job but more as a way to describe society: his shots showed cultures who lived in the countries he visited. The director himself said: "'Nel migliore cinema documentario, che rimane la mia grande ispirazione anche per la finzione, anche nelle storie più esotiche si respira l'umanità di cuk facciamo tutti parte, anche le vicende più locali ci colpiscono quando sono universali. Il dialetto o le piccole realtà raccontate nel cinema superano l'appartenenza ad un paese, ad una nazione'."An example that can explain this is his first full-length film, realized in 2013: Piccola Patria. It was exhibited in the section Orizzonti at the 70th edition of the International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art in Venice. Wrote by Caterina Serra and Maurizio Braucci, this film was produced by Pisa's society Arsenali Medicei, with the co-production by Jump Cut, realized with the financial support of the Veneto's Region - Regional Fund for cinema and audiovisual, BLS - Business Location Südtirol Alto Adige, Trentino Film Commission and Friuli-Venezia Giulia Film Commission and distributed by the Luce Cinecittà institute.

The debut of the fiction ensured high demand for the film, which in the following year had been selected for various festivals and had achieved various nominations and prizes:


 * Eventi Collaterali section of the 25th Trieste Film Festival ;
 * Spectrum section for the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam ;
 * New Talent Grand Prix at the CPH: PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival 2014 ;
 * CineVision at München Film Festival 2014 ;
 * Jury's award at Italian Cinema viewed in Milan in 2014 ;
 * Technical jury's reward at the Monty Banks' prize in 2014 ;
 * Audience's reward and the best actor's one for Diego Ribon at 18th Gallio Film Festival;
 * Prix Amilcar du Jury at the 37th Festival du film Italien de Villerupt ;
 * Audience's reward and best film's award in Prima Cosa Bella's section at the Asti Film Festival.

Furthermore, Piccola Patria received a nomination as best subject at the 69th edition of Nastri d'Argento, Nomination Bello e Invisibile at the Ciak d'oro 2014, and another nomination as best First Opera film at Kineo's reward "Diamanti al cinema italiano" 2014.

Six years later, in 2019, we see his second full-length film, Effetto Domino, previewed in the section Confini at the 76th International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art. Based on the homonymous book by Romolo Bugaro, this film was produced by Francesco Bonsembiante for Jolefilm and Rai Cinema with the contribution of the Veneto's region, Bolzano-Alto Adige and IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund & Commission; it was distributed by the production company named Parthènos. During the same year, it received awards and nominations in various international festivals:

In the subsequent year it had been selected for other local and international festivals:
 * Young jury's award and Special award of the jury in the Annecy Film Festival 2019;
 * 43rd Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt;
 * Les Rencontres du Cinèma Italien à Grenoble et en Isère;
 * In the "Full-length Film" section of the 12th Festival de Cine Italiano de Madrid;
 * 5th Italian Film Festival Cardiff;
 * 12th De Rome a Paris - Les Ecrans de Paris.


 * 4th Breganze Film Festival;
 * Rencontres du Cinèma Italien de Lyon;
 * For the section "Competizione" at the 7th Viva il cinema! Festival du Cinèma Italien Contemporain de Tours;
 * Nomination Best Picture at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival ;
 * CinemaItaliaOggi 2020 - Rassegna de nuovo cinema italiano in Poland ;
 * In the Narrative Feature section for the 23rd Brooklyn Film Festival ;
 * In the "Full-Length Film" section for the 18th Ischia Film Festival.

In 2020 we were able to see his debut in the theaters, thanks to the collaboration between JoleFilm and the "Teatro Stabile del Veneto"; they trusted the project of Romolo Bugaro, a lawyer and one of the leading writers of the last twenty years who wrote about the Triveneto. He got asked to write about Veneto's banking system and its crisis, and here we can see Alessandro Rossetto following the direction of the show entitled Una Banca Popolare.

Filmography

 * Nerosubianco (1989);
 * Il Fuoco di Napoli (1997);
 * Bibione Bye Bye One (1999);
 * Chiusura (2001);
 * Nic dwa razy - Nulla due volte (2003);
 * Feltrinelli (2006);
 * Raul (2007);
 * Vacanze di Guerra (2012);
 * Piccola Patria (2013);
 * Effetto Domino (2019);
 * The Italian Banker (2020).