Marco Simon Puccioni is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Seventh of eight children, Puccioni was born in and grew up in Rome. After graduating in architecture at the

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, he won a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to study at

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in Los Angeles where he received MFA in Film and Video in 1991.

Career

He started his professional career working for

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, directing short docudramas. After directing a series of short films for the festival circuit he produced the film project ''Intolerance'', a collective film against racism made up of shorts. He directed one of the shorts, while the others were directed by several other young Italian filmmakers such as

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and

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, but also by veteran director Citto Maselli. Puccioni made his full feature directorial debut in 2001 with ''Quello che Cerchi'' ("What you are looking for"). Using several digital formats, it is a road movie telling the story of a detective and a runaway teenager. The film, released in Italy in 2002, was awarded in the festival circuit and was greeted by

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as one of the best film debut of the year. Between 2003 and 2006, he went back working for television and directed several documentaries and short films. Among those the short ''Corpo Immagine'' with the actress Piera Degli Esposti and the still unknown and young

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was presented at the 61st

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. In 2007, his second feature film '' Riparo'' (distributed as ''

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'' in the US and as ''Shelter'' in other countries) premiered at the 57th

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. ''Riparo'' was screened at the New Directors/New Films series among the over 90 festivals around the world. The film starred the international actress

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and tells the story of a lesbian couple and an Arab teenager who illegally immigrated to Italy. ''Il Colore delle Parole'' ("The Color of Words") is a feature documentary that premiered at 66th

about the roots and the multiple identities of the African community in Italy. In 2012, he directed the documentary "Prima di tutto" ("Before anything else") part of a larger project entitled "My journey to meet you" about the life of same-sex families. His feature film ''Come il vento'' ("Like the wind") was presented at the eighth Rome International film festival. The film, starring

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narrates the story of Armida Miserere, the first woman to direct a high security jail in Italy. The film was then released in theaters in Italy and France in 2014 with a notable reception from critics and audiences. Between 2014 and 2019 he produced several first features of new directors, but in 2020 his new documentary ''Tuttinsieme'' ("All Together"), the second part of the "My journey to meet you" project was distributed in Italy and on Italian and foreign OTT. His most recent work is the coming-of-age story of a boy torn between two fathers, rights, sexuality ' The Invisible Thread (film)'' ( it, Il filo invisibile). ''In this

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original film, produced by Viola Prestieri and

, the director collaborates again with

as well as with the young Francesco Gheghi,

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, and the international star

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Filmography

Features *''Quello che Cerchi'' (2001) ("What you're looking for") *''La fortezza vista da basso'' (2003) *''100 anni della nostra storia'' (2006) *'' Riparo'' (2007) (''

'') *''Il Colore delle Parole'' (2009) ("The Color of words") *''Prima di tutto'' (2012) ("Before anything else") *''Come il vento'' (2013) ('' Like the Wind'') *'' Oggi insieme, domani anche'' (2016) *''Tuttinsieme'' (2020) ("All Together") *''Il Filo Invisibile'' (2022) (" The Invisible Thread (film)") Shorts *''The Blue Fiction'' (1991) - short *''Intolerance'' (1996; episode "80 anni di Intolerance") *''Sell your body, Now!'' (1998) - short *''Corpo/Immagine'' (2004) - short *''Il Colpo di Pistola'' (2005) - short

References

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