Tell Me About Love

DANIELE DI BIASIO is a director, screenwriter. He graduated from Ugo Pirro's screenwriting course and Giuseppe De Santis' directing course at Nuova Università del Cinema e della Televisione. He writes screenplays, subjects and treatments for TV and cinema. He teaches Italian and History in secondary school, holds courses in Italian for foreign pupils and teacher training. In 2002 he signed screenplay and direction of Pesci Combattenti, which won, among others, the Cipputi Prize and Mention best documentary at the Turin Film Festival. It is 2005 Via dell'Esquilino that earned him a Special Mention at Visioni Italiane Bologna and Genova Film Festival. In 2008 he signs Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa, presented at the Venice Film Festival 65 in the Orizzonti section. In 2010 he directs Children of the Desert, presented at the London International Documentary Festival. In 2015 He writes the subject and screenplay for the feature film Ci devo pensare by Francesco Albanese. In 2018, thanks to a grant from Mibac, he starts writing together with Adelmo Togliani Parlami d'amore, the docu-film centered on the figure of the well-known Italian singer and actor Achille Togliani, for which he also signs the direction, again by four hands. In 2019 he writes, with Michele Pellegrini, the subject and screenplay of the TV film Mai scherzare con le stelle directed by Matteo Oleotto.

ADELMO TOGLIANI Italian actor, director, screenwriter and member of the Achille Togliani Academy in Rome, participates as an actor in numerous successful TV dramas such as Un Medico in Famiglia, Marcinelle, Il Signore della Truffa and the series for RaiUno Un Matrimonio directed by Pupi Avati, and films for cinema such as Naja, Boris and Casanova by Oscar winner Lasse Hallstrom. As a director he trained in theater and later in audiovisual at IED, thanks to a fellowship in video design. He collaborates as a director with UNICEF Italy, RCS Mediagroup, RAI and Publispei. He is the author of Sweet India the first multi-ethnic sitcom for Rai2 and director of blogger Marco Camisani Calzolari's Digitalk.
His first book, Io, Clarence based on the play of the same name, was published in 2012. In 2014, thanks to the contribution of MiBACT, he made L'Uomo Volante starring Bianca Guaccero and won numerous national and international awards including the Audience Award at the ISFVF of the Beijing Film Academy, as well as giving lectures and meetings on the production system applied for its realization as on the occasion of the Venice Film Festival 72. Since 2015 he has been staging, the first in Italy, an adaptation in the form of a multimedia reading from the book Ready Player One by Ernst Cline. In 2016 he signs with Simone Siragusano the direction of the short film La Macchina Umana with Valentina Corti in the lead role, presented at the 12th Rome Film Festival in 2017 in the Risonanze section together with the Buonacultura Association, and takes part in the film La Morte del Sarago by Alessandro Zizzo together with Paolo Briguglia. In 2017 he is the male lead in the film La Sabbia negli Occhi, again alongside Valentina Corti, and returns again behind the camera with the short film Ciao, Nina, directing American actress Katherine Kelly Lang. Both films are presented at the 74th Venice Film Festival. In 2018 he begins preparation for Parlami d'amore, the docu-film centered on the figure of the well-known Italian singer and actor Achille Togliani, which he finishes in 2022 and co-signs with Daniele Di Biasio.
In 2019 he signs the screenplay and direction of the sci - fi genre short film Néo Kosmo starring Giorgia Surina in the role of the android nanny Alésia, presented at Alice nella Città - Rome Film Festival 2020 and later at Trieste Science+Fiction. The short film is selected in over 40 festivals circuiting both in Italy and abroad for two consecutive years and winning numerous awards.