SPUTNIK 5

About the director

Susanna Nicchiarelli was born in Rome in 1975. She studied philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza and obtained a PHD in Film Aesthetics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, attending courses and master classes also in Paris at the Ecole Normale Superiéure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud. She studied film direction and script writing at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and in 2004 she graduated in Cinema Direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Cinecittà. She directed two feature films: "Cosmonauta" ("Cosmonaut") - 2009 , winner of the Controcampo award at the 66th Venice International Film Festival; "La Scoperta dell'Alba" (Discovery at Dawn) - 2012, presented in the Official Selection at the Rome International Film Festival 2012. Among other short films and documentaries, she also directed two animation shorts ("Sputnik 5", 2009, stop-motion animation, winner of the Nastro d'Argento Best Animation Short and of the Brooklyn International FilmFestival, Best Animation Film; "Esca Viva", 2012, stop motion animation on paper, presented in the Official Selection at the Rome International Film Festival, as a Special Event).

Filmography BFF Alumni