Director & Screenwriter

Since 2007 she has written and directed music videos, documentaries and short films, winning the Nastro d’argento in 2007 with Please Leave a Message. Her documentaries include L’Italia del nostro scontento (Italy of our discontent) (Rai Cinema/Faro Film 2009); Chinese Honeymoon (Sky arte 2014); Black Mirror. A Journey with Mat Collishaw (Person Films/British Council/Sky Arte 2015),The Courage to Dare (Rai Com/Opera del Duomo 2016), and A Life Beyond Earth (Ring Film)Her first feature film was Nina (Magda Film/Rai Cinema 2012). In 2015 she published her first novel La Figlia di (The Daughter of) (Rizzoli 2014), followed by Michele e la termodinamica (Michelle and thermodynamics) (Elliot 2017). She also wrote and directed the Opera Noi, due, quattro… (Us, two, four…), originally commissioned by the Maggio Musical Theater of Florence. It premiered worldwide in September of 2019.

MIA | Drama Speakers 2019