Full Name Stefano Sollima Parents Sergio Sollima | Years active 1991-present Siblings Samanta Sollima | |
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Born 4 May 1966 (age 50) ( 1966-05-04 ) Rome, Italy Occupation Film director, television director, screenwriter Nominations Nastro d'Argento for Best Director Movies and TV shows Suburra, Romanzo criminale – La serie, ACAB: All Cops Are Basta, Gomorrah, Soldado Similar Pierfrancesco Favino, Greta Scarano, Claudio Cupellini, Marco D'A, Fortunato Cerlino | ||
Director stefano sollima on sicario sequel soldado
Stefano Sollima (born 4 May 1966) is an Italian film and television director. He is best known for his crime-drama works such as Romanzo criminale - La serie (2006–2008), ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards (2012), the Gomorrah TV series (2014–present), and Suburra (2015).
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- Director stefano sollima on sicario sequel soldado
- Director stefano sollima exclusive interview suburra
- Early life
- Career
- References
Director stefano sollima exclusive interview suburra
Early life
Born in Rome, Sollima is the son of the director and screenwriter Sergio Sollima. He started his career as a camera operator realizing numerous reports from war zones for several television networks, including CNN, CBS, and NBC.
Career
In 1991 Sollima debuted as a director with the short film Grazie, which was awarded at the Turin Film Festival. His following short films were selected in important festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival.
Active as a television director since 1998, he had his breakout in 2008, thanks to the critical success of the Sky Cinema series Romanzo criminale – La serie. In 2012 Sollima made his feature film debut with the crime-drama ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards about police brutality in Italy, which got him a David di Donatello nomination for Best New Director and a Nastro d'Argento nomination for the same recipient. In 2014 Sollima created for Sky Cinema the acclaimed TV series Gomorrah, based on the 2006 non-fiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviano. After directing various episodes of the first and the second season of the show, Sollima dropped out in 2016 due to schedule conflicts with his other future projects.
In 2015, Sollima directed the crime drama Suburra, produced by Netflix and Cattleya, which got him another Nastro d'Argento nomination, this time for Best Director. A 10-episode TV series based on the movie will debut in 2017, being the first Italian Netflix Original Series. Sollima is set to direct crime-drama ZeroZeroZero, based on a non-fiction book by Roberto Saviano about illegal drug trade in Mexico and South America.
He will make his English language debut in 2017 with action-crime thriller Soldado, an anthological sequel to Denis Villeneuve's Sicario. The film, which stars Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin, began principal photography on November 2016 in New Mexico.
