Giuseppe Rossi (film director)

Giuseppe Rossi is an Italian director, screenwriter, actor and producer.

Giuseppe Rossi was a feature film director at the age of 13 and a creator of a lot of short films. His short film Antiora in 2010 won the first prize at the Giffoni Film Festival and in 2012 his short film called Limerence was selected at the Cannes Film Festival.

Early years
He made in 2007 at the age of 13 a feature film, "The Secret in Secret", a thriller starring and directed by himself and in the same year with the short film"Alien Tales" won a special prize in the festival "Corti senza limiti." He continued with other short films of fantasy genre, "Clone" (2007), "Steve e i mostri dall'Oltretomba"(2008), "Eco-Monster" (2008) and a stop-motion animation "Drop" (2009).

The trilogy of titles: Giffoni and Cannes
In 2010 he directs "Antiora", his first comedy-drama, which won first prize at the Giffoni Film Festival. It was the story of a boy who wants go in a basketball team but his dream is interrupted by a very strange friend. The title, "Antiora", is a term coined by director himself. The film was presented to other important film festival of the Academy award circuit as the Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, the Los Angeles Film Festival and the New York Int'l Children's Film Festival. "Vitriol", an other short film made in 2011, is a love story hindered by a satanic sect. The title is an latin acronim ( V.I.T.R.I.O.L. ). In 2012 he writes, directs and acting in "Limerence", a short film about love, music, nature, beauty, maths and golden ratio. The whole film was structured on the golden ratio using the golden proportion for the screenplay, the shoots and editing and then for the rhytm. These three short film Antiora, Vitriol and Limerence are known as the trilogy of title because in the title there's the whole morality.

Future projects
Now he is working on th pre-production of an animated short film, "Voodoo Love Story", a story about two voodoo dolls.

Feature films

 * The Secret in the Secret (2007)

Short films

 * Alien Tales (2007)
 * Clone (2007)
 * Steve e i Mostri dall'Oltretomba (2008)
 * Eco-Monster (2008)
 * Drop (2009)
 * Antiora (2010) - Giffoni Film Festival
 * Vitriol (2011)
 * Limerence (2012) - Festival di Cannes