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Gianluca Vallero
Gianluca Vallero (born 17 February 1966) is an Italian/German film director, screenwriter, voice actor and film producer.

Biography
Born in Castellamonte and raised in Rivara (Turin), a small village in Piedmont, he graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Turin. In 1991 he moved to Berlin where he has been working as a director, dubber and voiceover artist for TV and film productions. He has also published articles on Germany's culture and politics in various Italian and Swiss daily newspapers such as Il Manifesto, Il Secolo XIX and Il Giornale del Popolo. For DeutschlandRadio, Deutschland Funk, WDR, RBB and other German public service broadcasters he has authored features on culture and society.

As a dubber Gianluca Vallero has been the german voice of some well known Italian actors like, among others, Riccardo Scamarcio in John Wick 2, Salvatore Esposito in Fargo IV, as well as Neri Marcorè in The Tourist. In 2018 he played the role of the father in the ARD radio drama "1933 Was a Bad Year" by John Fante, directed by Anja Herrenbrück and starred with Thomas Arnold and Leonard Scheicher.

In 1999 Gianluca Vallero founded Finimondo Productions. The film production company had an immediate success in the international independent film scene with its first short film: Finimondo. The film won the New York Academy Award in the Panorama section at the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival. Many further awards followed.

In 2003 Vallero got to know the European Film awarded director Gianni Amelio and became his assistant director on the international film production The Keys to the House (2004).

Over the years Finimondo Productions has produced a whole series of films that have been acclaimed at a host of international festivals. Finimondo Productions develops mostly fictional film projects but also produces documentaries. Gianluca Vallero and his independent production company is particularly interested in telling stories about people with different cultural identities, as in his documentary ″Balkan Dreams - Life in the Rhythm of 9/16″, which was screened at the 2018 Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon. In 2022, Gianluca Vallero will release a new feature film with Finimondo Productions.

Filmography

 * 2016: Balkan Dreams: ein Leben im 9/16 Takt (Balkan Dreams: Life in the Rhythm of 9/16) - (Cinema release: Sept.2018)
 * 2014: Remember a Day - Echoes of Life
 * 2012: Der Italiener (The Italian) (Young Collection Film Festival Bremen 2012: 1. Jury Prize)
 * 2007: Cara Giovanna (Dear Giovanna)
 * 2004: Company Down - (Britspotting Filmfestival Berlin 2004: 2. Jury Prize)
 * 2004: Arie - (AFI Fest - Los Angeles International Film Festival 2005)
 * 2002: Das Geschenk (The Gift)
 * 1999: Finimondo - (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2000: Panorama New York Academy Scholarship Award)

Assistant director

 * 2004: The Keys to the House - (Best Italian Film 2005)

Awards

 * 2000: Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama New York Academy Scholarship Award for Finimondo
 * 2000: Interfilm Berlin - Local Hero Award for Finimondo
 * 2000: Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden - Audience Award for Finimondo
 * 2000: Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche - Audience Award for Finimondo
 * 2000: Otto Ludwig Piffl Preis Berlin - Audience Award for Finimondo
 * 2004: Britspotting Filmfestival Berlin - 2. Jury Award for Company Down
 * 2012: Young Collection Film Festival Bremen - 1. Jury Award for Der Italiener (The Italian)