Valerio Jalongo
| Valerio Sebastiano Jalongo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 May 1960 Rome, Italy |
| Occupation |
Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1983-present |
Valerio Jalongo (born 11 May 1960) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Jalongo was born in Rome. Graduated in Philosophy, he attended the Gaumont School of Cinema, founded by producer Renzo Rossellini, and also studied Cinema at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
His directorial debut came in 1983 with Juke box,[1] an anthology film directed as well by Carlo Carlei, Daniele Luchetti, Antonello Grimaldi, and others[1] casting Massimo Bonetti, Philippe Leroy, and Barbara De Rossi and screened at the Venice Film Festival.
In 1988, Jalongo made DreamCity, a documentary film shot in Los Angeles which won the Vittorio De Sica Prize the same year.
His first feature film was Spaghetti Slow (1997)[2] starring Brendan Gleeson and Ivano Marescotti,[3][4] shot in Dublin. In 2004, he directed Sulla mia pelle, featuring Donatella Finocchiaro and Ivan Franek.[5]
In 2009, his documentary Di me cosa ne sai (What Do You Know About Me) was presented at the 66th Venice International Film Festival (Venice Days) where it received the "Federazione italiana dei circoli del cinema" Prize.[6] The film analyzes the cinema crisis of the seventies that caused the flight of De Laurentiis, Ponti, and other big producers from Italy to United States and the related phenomena marking the gradual disappearance of Italian cinema from the international market.
His most recent feature film is La scuola è finita, starring Valeria Golino and Vincenzo Amato.[7]
He is also a teacher.
Filmography as director
- 1985: Juke box (several directors)
- 1988: DreamCity (doc)
- 1996: Il caso Bebawi (The Bebawi Affair) (tv-movie)
- 1997: Spaghetti Slow
- 1998: Torniamo a casa (Let's Go Home) (tv-movie)
- 2004: Sulla mia pelle (On My Skin)
- 2005: R.I.S. (Scientific Police) (tv-series) (co-director)
- 2009: What Do You Know About Me (doc)
- 2010: La scuola è finita (The School Is Over)
References
- 1 2 "Valerio Jalongo". MyMovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ↑ Italian title Messaggi quasi segreti
- ↑ The film was selected at the Montreal World Film Festival, as well as shown at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Moscow International Film Festival, the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival and elsewhere.
- ↑ Page on the TFF participation.
- ↑ The film was awarded at the Festival du film italien de Villerupt and at the Napoli Film Festival, as well as by the Minister of Culture, and selected at the Torino and Bangkok Film Festivals.
- ↑ It was also at the BFI London Film Festival in 2010 and at the Doku.arts International Films on Art of Amsterdam.
- ↑ The film was selected at the Rome Film Festival, and shown also in the 2011 editions of Montreal and Bangkok Italian Film Festival.