Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1960)

Valerio Jalongo (born 11 May 1960) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Filmography as director
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Life and career

Jalongo was born in Rome. Graduated in Philosophy, he attended the Gaumont School of Cinema, founded by producer Renzo Rossellini, and also studied Cinema at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

His directorial debut came in 1983 with Juke box, an anthology film directed as well by Carlo Carlei, Daniele Luchetti, Antonello Grimaldi, and others casting M*imo Bonetti, Philippe Leroy, and Barbara De Rossi and screened at the Venice Film Festival.

In 1988, Jalongo made DreamCity, a do*entary film shot in Los Angeles which won the Vittorio De Sica Prize the same year.

His first feature film was Spaghetti Slow (1997) starring Brendan Gleeson and Ivano Marescotti, shot in Dublin. In 2004, he directed Sulla mia pelle, featuring Donatella Finocchiaro and Ivan Franek.

In 2009, his do*entary Di me cosa ne sai (What Do You Know About Me) was presented at the 66th Venice International Film Festival (Venice Days) where it received the "Federazione italiana dei circoli del cinema" Prize. The film *yzes the cinema crisis of the seventies that caused the flight of De Laurentiis, Ponti, and other big producers from Italy to United States and the related phenomena marking the gradual disappearance of Italian cinema from the international market.

His most recent feature film is La scuola è finita, starring Valeria Golino and Vincenzo Amato.

He is also a teacher.

Filmography as director

• 1985: Juke box (several directors)
• 1988: DreamCity (doc)
• 1996: Il caso Bebawi (The Bebawi Affair) (tv-movie)
• 1997: Spaghetti Slow
• 1998: Torniamo a casa (Let's Go Home) (tv-movie)
• 2004: Sulla mia pelle (On My Skin)
• 2005: R.I.S. (Scientific Police) (tv-series) (co-director)
• 2009: What Do You Know About Me (doc)
• 2010: La scuola è finita (The School Is Over)
• 2017: Il senso della bellezza, arte e scienza al CERN (The Sense of Beauty: Art and Science at CERN) (doc)
• 2021: L'acqua l'insegna la sete (Water Is Taught by Thirst) (doc)

References

External links

• Valerio Jalongo at IMDb