Sergio Basso

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

### 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.

### 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.

## Other websites

- http://www.teatraz.org
- _Sergio Basso_ in CinemaItaliano.info
- Film profile _Amori Elementari_ in _Fimlitalia.org_