Irene Dionisio

Irene Dionisio was born in Turin in 1986, where she currently lives and works. She is a filmmaker, a visual artist, and a teacher. She has a degree in the Philosophy of History and earned an MI in (...) Cinema and Philosophy at UPJV in Amiens, France. She is currently the director of the gay festival Da Sodoma a Hollywood hosted by the Museo del Cinema in Turin. Her artistic production includes video-installations and documentaries, among which Sponde. Nel sicuro sole del nord (2015) and La fabbrica è piena. Tragicommedia in otto atti (2011), presented at various international festivals and awarded numberous prizes, including the Premio Cariddi, Premio Solinas, Premio Scam in France, and the Jury Prize at the Cinema Verité in Iran. Her videos have also been screened at PAC in Milan, the Museo Berardo in Lisbon, and the MAMbo in Bologna, as well as in other international galleries. In 2018 she was the only Italian artist invited to the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Geneva. Le ultime cose (Tempesta) (2016), her first fiction feature film, premiered during Critics' Week in Venice: distributed by the Istituto Luce Cinecittà in the fall of 2016, it has been shown in numerous international festivals and was awarded a David di Donatello in 2017 and a Golden Globe also in 2017 as the best first work. It also won a special Silver Ribbon Award for the screenplay in 2017.