Domenico Distilo

Domenico Distilo
Domenico Distilo
Born (1978-12-25) 25 December 1978 (age 47)
Rome, Lazio, Italy
OccupationFilmmaker/Director
Years active2001–present

Domenico Distilo (born 25 December 1978 in Rome, Lazio, Italy) is a filmmaker living and working between Rome, Italy and Berlin, Germany.

He graduated in film direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome with the film Unexpected (Inatteso), a documentary on the demand for political asylum in Italy, which was screened at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence and at the Berlinale, within the section "Forum" in 2006.

In 2008, he won the national prize Premio Solinas for the screenplay of the feature film When elephants fight (Quando gli elefanti combattono), written in collaboration with Filippo Gravino and Guido Iuculano.

In 2009, he joined the production company Sciara, where he works as director and producer.

In 2011, he directed two documentaries for RAI 3, the Italian cultural public channel: Urban extremes - Jerusalem (Estremi urbani, Gerusalemme), on the territorial conflict in Jerusalem and Romany imaginary - Minority artists (Immaginario Rom - Artisti Contro), on Romany art in Hungary.

Distilo's works generally focus on social issues, with a special interest in various forms of contemporary art.

In his movie Deep time (Margini di sottosuolo) (2011), he explored the boundaries between documentary and fiction with a story on archeology and the feelings that bound people to their past.

In 2018 his documentary Manga Do, Igort and the way of the manga won the audience award at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna. The film tells the journey of Igort, one of the most important Italian graphic novel authors, in the founding places of Japanese culture. The film follows a previous reportage, Igort, the secret landscape (2013), which tells the story of Igort's search for the creation of his trilogy on the Soviet Union.

Prizes and awards

Filmography

Documentaries

  • A day in Rome (Un giorno a Roma), (2001), produced by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
  • Tiburtina tells (Tiburtina racconta), (2005)
  • Dialogues for Refugees (Dialoghi di Profughi), (2005)
  • Unexpected (Inatteso), (2005), produced by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
  • CAM Selinunte, (2008), produced by Sciara
  • The Calm and the Storm, (2010)
  • Urban Extremes – Jerusalem (Estremi urbani - Gerusalemme), (2011), produced by Sciara
  • Romany imaginary - Minority artists (Immaginario Rom - Artisti contro), (2011), produced by Sciara
  • Deep time (Margini di Sottosuolo), (2011), produced by Sciara
  • Igort, the secret landscape, (2013), produced by Sciara
  • Manga Do, Igort and the way of the manga, (2018) produced by Sciara

Short films

Projects

  • The rope over the sea (Dawaz: la fune sul mare), a documentary with Adili Wuxiuer
  • When elephants fight (Quando gli elefanti combattono), movie

References

  1. 1 2 "Premio Solinas - Albo d'oro" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Distilo, Domenico (Director) (22 September 2014). Urban Extremes - Jerusalem. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Distilo, Domenico (Director) (22 September 2014). Igort, the secret landscape (English Subtitle). Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Igort, Il Paesaggio Segreto[link removed]
  5. ↑ "'Inatteso', de Domenico Distilo, gana el premio del jurado de mostrari". Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  6. ↑ "Winners list of Arcipelago, 2006 edition". Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  7. ↑ 3rd season of documentary in Messina - Assaggi di realtà 2011[link removed]
  8. ↑ "I premi di Biografilm 2018" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  9. ↑ Dawaz, con la fune sul mare c' è il funambolo Adili Wuxiuer