Serafino Murri
Serafino Murri (born 5 April 1966) is an Italian film critic, screenwriter, and film director from Rome. Career. Early career After graduating in aesthetics from Sapienza University of Rome in 1990, Murri began writing screen dialogues for foreign film dubbing into Italian. He also became a dramaturg at the Rome-based theatre company I Costruttori. In 1996, he started work as a screenwriter with Italian film directors such as Volfango De Biasi and Mario Monicelli, and in the same year, he helped launch the Italian cinema quarterly "Close-Up" as well as becoming its editor-in-chief, a  position he held until 1999. He was also instrumental in the creation of the cinema monthly "Filmmaker's Magazine", and was its editor-in-chief from 1998 until 2000. Film criticism and writing Murri's main credits as film critic are studies and books on the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles (also translating into Italian Welles' book "Interviews" in 2005), as well as essays on cinema. Murri was a member of the selection committee of the Venice Film Festival in 2002 and 2003, and in 2008 and 2009, he managed the "Factual" section of  the Roma Fiction Fest. From 2005 to 2013, he was film critic of the monthly magazine "La Repubblica XL". From 1999 to 2006, Murri collaborated with the satellite TV network RaiSat Cinema World as author, director, and studio host for television programs. Since 2012, he is the author of TV magazines for the DTV channel RaiMovie. Murri has authored the works "Encyclopaedia of Cinema" (2004) and "Lexicon of Contemporaneity" (2013), published by "Treccani". Directing Murri's debut in filmmaking is the 2004 feature-length production "Movimenti", written and directed with Claudio Fausti. He followed this with several more projects, including  the 2005 short "The Changing of the Guard", produced and broadcast by Sky Channel. In 2009, he wrote the segments "Angelo Azzurro Reloaded" and "The Addiction" from the anthology film "Feisbum - Il film". He has also made documentary films, including "The Music Hall of Rome" in 2007 and "Scandalo in sala. La sfida tra Potere e Cinema in Italia" in 2014 (co-directed with Alexandra Rosati). Teaching Since 1999, Murri has taught cinema, art, and communication subjects ("Visual Communication", "Scriptwriting", "Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts") at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Rome. From 2005 to 2011, he was professor of  Audiovisual and Media Translation at IULM University of Milan, and he teaches "New Media and Cinema" at the Cinematographic Art School Gian Maria Volontè in Rome. He has been at the International University of Rome since 2018. Memberships and posts Partial bibliography. Essays Literary works Partial filmography. Film Television