Valia Santella (Writing)
Little is known about Valia Santella, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Story of Frank and Nina
Frank, a school dropout, meets Nina, a teenage wife and mom seeking education. As they study together, their bond grows, redefining family and reality itself in their eyes.
Release Date:2024-10-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
The Art of Joy
Born on the 1st of January 1900 in a poor family in rural Sicily, Modesta pursues happiness since her childhood without falling victim to the constraints of society. After a tragic event that takes her away from her family, Modesta is welcomed into a monastery, where she becomes the Mother Superior’s protégé thanks to her intelligence and stubbornness. Later, she arrives at the villa belonging to the Princess of Brandiforti, where she makes herself indispensable. This relentless process of emancipation goes along with a journey of personal growth and sexual awakening, which lead her to discover and claim the right to pleasure and happiness.
Release Date:2024-05-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:1
A Brighter Tomorrow
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Release Date:2023-04-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:305
La Sposa
Release Date:2022-01-16
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:12
The Inner Cage
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Release Date:2021-10-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:254
Three Floors
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Release Date:2021-09-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:299
The Traitor
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
Release Date:2019-05-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1354
Euphoria
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.
Release Date:2018-10-25
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:196
Naples in Veils
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
Release Date:2017-12-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:455
Red Istanbul
Orhan who lived in London for years and did not come back to Turkey agrees to help Deniz -a famous director- edit his first book. Deniz has been living in a mansion with his family which started to lose its old brightness and power. Orhan finds himself in the middle of Deniz's complicated relationships, mysterious friends and stange family members. This is the first movie of Ferzan Ozpetek which is shot in Turkey after a long time. It is also based on his own book which has the same name with the movie.
Release Date:2017-03-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:130
Sweet Dreams
Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
Release Date:2016-11-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:214
Pericle
A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
Release Date:2016-05-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:41
Mia madre
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Release Date:2015-04-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:358
Honey
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.
Release Date:2013-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:62
Nina
The contemporary architecture of Rome are at the heart of the beautifully shot and winsomely appealing Nina, which charts the oddball escapades of a young woman in a depopulated Rome during one hot summer. This heartwarming tale of a lonesome girl who teaches singing and dog-sits during her holidays on the outskirts of Rome. Its striking cinematography evokes Nina's indefinable anxiety. By opening herself up to life she conquers a vision of her future full of imagination and beauty.
Release Date:2012-10-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:12
The Black Sheep
Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.
Release Date:2010-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Vote Count:26
Armandino e il Madre
An italian short comedy
Release Date:2010-03-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Te lo leggo negli occhi
Release Date:2004-09-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Rehearsals for War
A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.
Release Date:1998-04-29
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:5
Notes of Love
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.
Release Date:1998-04-17
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:1
Aprile
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.
Release Date:1998-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:226
Sacred Silence
A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year-old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to accuse the priest of sexual harassment and have his reputation destroyed?
Release Date:1996-09-05
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:17
Troubling Love
When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged parent's secret life, she'll face the hidden memories that shaped her family history.
Release Date:1995-04-12
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:28
La scuola
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Release Date:1995-04-06
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:110
Sud
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
Release Date:1993-10-17
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:56
Arriva la bufera
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
Release Date:1993-03-25
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:13
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Release Date:1992-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:32
The Yes Man
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Release Date:1991-04-05
Department:Directing
Job:Script Supervisor
Vote Count:57