Saverio Costanzo

Saverio Costanzo (b. 1975, Rome) studied sociology of communications at Sapienza University of Rome (1998). He began making movies during his time in New York, where he shot the documentary Caffè Mille Luci, Brooklyn, New York (1999). For his feature debut Private (2004) he won a Golden Leopard at the Locarno IFF and the David di Donatello Award for Best New Director. His next film In Memory of Me (In memoria di me, 2007) was entered for the main competition at Berlin and was included in Karlovy Vary's Focus on New Italian Directors. In 2011 the Karlovy Vary IFF also screened his drama The Solitude of Prime Numbers (La solitudine dei numeri primi, 2010) in its Horizons section. Costanzo then created an Italian version of the American HBO series "In Treatment" (2013) for Sky Cinema TV.

50. MFF Karlovy Vary