Stefano Casertano

Stefano Casertano is a film director, producer and screenwriter and author residing in Berlin, Germany and Rome, Italy. Stefano heads his dilm company "Daring House". Stefano co-produced the film "The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used" to Be by Franco Maresco, awarded a "Silver Lion" as Special Jury Prize at the official competition of the Venice Film Festival - La Biennale di Venezia in 2019. Among the others, he previously produced "The Ballad of the Homeless", an animated short winner of Oscar-Qualyfying Festival "LA Short Fest". Ad a documentary director, in 2018 he won the DocFeed Festival in Eindhoven and the Special Mention of the Jury at the Rome Independent Film Festival, with the film "People of Love and Rage". He has been nominated "Italian Leader" by the Council for the United States and Italy and "Junior Fellow" by the Aspen Institute, and is an alumn of the Venice Biennale College for Virtual Reality.