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The same name

Inspired by a true story.
A tale of an endless love, a trip to the past, a man prisoner of his human, horizontal and ground place. Determined to leave, through memories, for a new and unexplored "vanishing point".

  • Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo
    Director
  • Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo
    Writer
  • Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo
    Producer
  • Eduardo Angeloni
    Producer
  • Daniele Urciuolo
    Producer
  • Teresanna Nuzzo
    Producer
  • Mariano Rigillo
    Key Cast
  • Anna Teresa Rossini
    Key Cast
  • Marco Rosso Cacciapuoti
    Key Cast
  • Fabiola Dalla Chiara
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Il nome che mi hai sempre dato
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 12, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English, French, Italian, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Arri Alexa
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • VerticalMovie
    Rome
    Italy
    September 23, 2018
    Official Selection, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
  • VisioniCorte Film Festival
    Gaeta
    Italy
    October 20, 2018
    Special Screening
  • Figari Film Fest
    Olbia
    Italy
    Semi-finalist
  • Verga Film Festival
    Matera
    Italy
    Finalist
  • TRAme Indipendenti
    Pisa
    Italy
    Finalist
  • San Diego Italian Film Festival
    San Diego, California
    United States
    Finalist
  • Lightning Cut Film Festival
    Roma
    Italy
    Award Winner: Narrative Short Films
  • Social Short Web
    Napoli
    Italy
    Award Winner: Short
  • Roma Cinema DOC
    Roma
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • Cefalù film festival 2022
    Cefalù
    Italy
    Official Selection
  • Scrittura e Immagine Short Film Festival
    Pescara
    Italy
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Paradise Pictures
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
  • Rai Cinema Channel
    Country: Italy
    Rights: Internet, Free TV
Director Biography - Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo

Born in 1989. Director, producer and author, he is an expert of social movie and current director of the Social World Film Festival, an International show of the social movie; in nine years of work for the Social World Film Festival, which has as honorary president the actress Claudia Cardinale, he founded a Monument and a Museum of Cinema, organised in 480 days of film-making activities in Italy and 37 Internazional events that have touched 28 towns of five continents from New York to Sidney, passing through Tokyo, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Tunisi and London; he received important awards and medals by the President of the European Parliament, by the Presidency of the Italian Republic, by the Italian House and Senate.
He wrote and directed a lot of short movies (Sad Letters - Lettere a mia Figlia with Leo Gullotta) documentaries (Primitively - Primitivamente with Giancarlo Giannini and the music of Enzo Avitabile), feature films (The Truth - Le Verità with Francesco Montanari, Nicoletta Romanoff and Mariagrazia Cucinotta) and spot with social issues (Run - Corri with Anna Falchi, transmitted on Italian televisions Rai and Mediaset) for which he received a lot of awards, including the recognition by the President, of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano and by the Nobel Prize Rita Levi Montalcini, by the European Union and Public Service Announcement. He also received a special mention at the prestigious Italian award Nastro d'Argento of the National Union of the Italian film reporters, the first award at the Giffoni Film Festival, The Ettore Scola Award and the Prize of the Critical Jury at the Siena Film Festival.
Organizer of film events like the Campania Film Award - Premio Cinema Campania and the CineBus, first travelling film festival in the world, he is author and publisher for the cinema and the show.
He cares the anthology of film quotations Cinema is dream - Cinema è sogno that the historic president of Italian awards David di Donatello, Gian Luigi Rondi, called monumental.
He teaches direction at the University and for public and private educational institutions, works with the Master of Cinema and TV of the University Suor Orsola Benincasa and Film School of Naples, writes movie critics on various periodic and participates as columnist of social movie on national television broadcasts.
He is juror of the Various International Film Festival, including the Rome Film Festival - Festa del Film di Roma for the award Marc'Aurelio Esordienti.

Graduated in production and film organisation to the Lab of the National School of Cinema, Film Experimental Centre – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome, in direction with low budget film among the National Film and TV School of London and in film language among the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
Within the sphere of activities, he majored with full marks in Dentistry with an experimental thesis to Los Angeles by the title: The dentistry in the cinema and the show: new border of the aesthetics dentistry.

Cinema
- The same name - Il nome che mi hai sempre dato by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - short movie (2018)
- Rabbia furiosa by Sergio Stivaletti – feature film (2018) - distributor
- Lovers by Matteo Vicino – feature film (2018) - distributor
- Insane Love by Eitan Pitigliani - short movie (2017) - producer
- Napolitaners by Gianluca Vitiello – documentary (2017) - distributor
- The Truth - Le verità by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo – feature film (2016)
- Sad Letters - Lettere a mia figlia by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo – short film (2016)
- E tu chi sei? by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - documentary (2015)
- Primitively - Primitivamente by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - documentary (2015)
- Eros Kay Psichè by G. Mazzitelli and F. Pezzullo - short movie (2014) - distributor
- Cinema in Costiera by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - documentary (2014)
- Normal – Normale by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - docuseries (2014)
- Right to life by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - short movie (2012)

Television
- Run - Corri by Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo - spot TV (2014)

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