Mimmo Verdesca

Mimmo Verdesca is a Italian filmmaker; he has worked in film, TV and theatre since 2002 and has collaborated with the likes of Maurizio Ponzi, Fabio Grossi and Ferzan Ozpetek. He made his first documentary in 2011, "In arte Lilia Silvi" about the life and career of the last real diva of the "Telefoni Bianchi" era, which won several awards in 2012 including a Nastro d'argento for the Best Documentary dedicated to cinema. In 2015 he released his sophomore documentary "Protagonisti per sempre" which revolved around the stories of the most celebrated child actors of Italian cinema which went on to win the Gryphon Award for the best documentary at the Giffoni Film Festival 2015. The last work is the docu "Sciuscià 70" about the filming of the legendary Vittorio De Sica film "Sciuscià", a masterpiece of "Neorealismo". Mimmo Verdesca with this documentary won his second Nastro d'Argento in 2017.