Melissa P.

Filmmaker and stage director, screenwriter and producer, Luca Guadagnino was born in Palermo in 1971. He graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome with a thesis on Jonathan Demme. In 1999, he made his first feature film The Protagonists, a strange film that defied categorization. The Protagonists was selected for Venice. Some years later he directed Mundo civilizado (2003), screened at Locarno. In 2004 he made Cuoco contadino, selected for the Cinema Digitale section at Venice. His following film, Melissa P. (2005), was a hit, despite arousing controversy. In 2009 he received international acclaim for I Am Love. His most recent film, Inconscio italiano (2011), is screening at Locarno this year in the section Fuori concorso. –Locarno Film Festival