Sergio Basso (Milan, June 11, 1975)  is an Italian movie director, writer and scriptwriter.

Biography

Early life 
Sergio Basso’s passion for cinema dates back to his high school years. He spent several years in China. Beginning in 1996 he studied oriental art. Basso graduated from the University of Venice in 1999 with a degree in oriental languages. He also received a degree in Classics at the University of Milan in 2011. He graduated from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 2006. He is a member of the 'European Documentary Network Association'. He has attended seminars at the GITIS Moscow Theatre School.

Basso began working in theater as a director for the Teatraz company. He then moved on to the movie industry. Basso spent two years as an assistant director on the set of Italian director Gianni Amelio’s The Missing Star. He directed a number of documentaries. Some of these were presented at the Festivals of Nyon, Annecy, Turin and San Francisco.

Career 
In 2013, Basso directed the movie Amori elementari. It was released in movie theaters across Italy, Switzerland, Russia and Canada. The movie was premiered at the 36th Moscow International Film Festival. It also was shown at the 65th Giffoni Film Festival, the Rio International Film Festival, and at the 'Ostrajenie Film Festival in Moscow. It won the Grand Prix for Best Children Movie in Moscow.

Recent work 
In 2014, Basso directed a documentary on China’s Han dynasty. It was commissioned by the Chinese state television network CCTV-6.

Internet and entertainment  
Basso created one of the first Italian cross-media platforms, the documentary Giallo a Milano. It has new stories and characters that had first appeared in the documentary film of the same name. He has been collaborating with Italy’s national public broadcasting company RAI. He has made several cartoons for them. Per l'animazione di uno dei personaggi di Giallo a Milano vince Il Festival Internazionale d'Animazione Annecy nel 2010. Si occupa anche di cinematografia d'impresa, realizzando cortometraggi e reportage per Telecom, Save the Children, ONU, il museo MAXXI di Roma, De Agostini Editore. In 2010, Basso won the International Festival of Animation Annecy. This was for his animation work for one of the characters of Giallo a Milano. He has also made commercials. He has worked on campaigns for Telecom, Save the Children, the United Nations. He has also worked for the museum MAXXI Roma, and De Agostini Editore.

Filmography

Director 
 Amori elementari (2014)
 Cine tempestose (2013)
 La buona stella (2013)
 Diciannove e settantadue (2012)
 Giallo a Milano  (2009)
 Il viaggio di Gesù (2007)
 Dora (2007)
 Quando capita di perdersi (2005)
 30 febbraio (2004)
 Fuhao (2003)

Theatrical productions  
 Vorrei i soldi di Ronconi, BassanoOperaFestival, Bassano del Grappa, 2009
 Il martello sui coglioni fumanti, Teatro Rialtoccupato, Rome, 2005
 Il viaggio, International Drama Show, Shanghai, 2005
 Colando, by Claire Dowie, Festival Lamanicatagliata, Siena-Modena-Bologna; Festival Garofano Verde, Rome; Teatro CometaOff, Roma, 2002
 Le muse orfane, by Marc-Michel Bouchard, Teatro Colosseo, Rome; Festival Confini, Modena; Festival Euroméditerraéen de Théâtre, Mostagenem, Algeria, 2001
 Amleto a morsi, by William Shakespeare, Rocca di Montecuccoli (Mantova) with Teatraz Theater company, 2000
 Antigone Z, by Paolo Bignamini, starring Sophie Ciaudo,  live music by Alessandro Tarolo, Carlo Garofalo and Michele Comuzzi; Festival di Castellanza; Teatro dell’Acqua, Gargano (Brescia); Teatro Ratti (Legnano), 1999
 Dialoghi con Leucò, by Cesare Pavese, Teatro Wagner, Milano, 1995
 La Ronde, by Arthur Schnitzler, Teatro Libero, Milano, 1993

Publications 
 Sergio Basso et al., Il patrimonio dell'umanità. Siti archeologici e centri storici, Skira, 2002.
 Sergio Basso et al., Il patrimonio dell'umanità. I complessi architettonici, Skira, 2003.
 Sergio Basso et al., Ritratti dalla Cina imperiale, P&P international Design, Torino, 2004.
 Sergio Basso, Filippo Salviati, Cina, Edizioni IlSole24Ore, 2006.
 Sergio Basso et al., Lo sguardo altrove. Il progetto Etno e il patrimonio culturale extraeuropeo in Emilia-Romagna, IBC, 2007.
 Sergio Basso et al., Manuale di storia dell'arte, Skira-Bompiani-Rizzoli, 2009.
 Sergio Basso, Marianna Cappi, Marina Polla de Luca, Amori elementari - Un anno di fuoco e di ghiaccio, Salani, 2014.

References

Other websites 
 http://www.teatraz.org
 Sergio Basso in CinemaItaliano.info
 Film profile Amori Elementari in Fimlitalia.org
 

1975 births
Living people
Italian movie directors