Director & visual artist, based in Milano, where she works also as a producer. She enrolls at the University of Bologna, where she obtains her Batchelor's Degree in Communication studies and her Master's degree in Cinema with a maximum score. She participated in directing and script-writing workshops (with G. Tornatore, A. Kiarostami), as well as in those dedicated to photography and production (with N.Giuliano producer of ‘The Great beauty’). In 2011, the urge to portray the present situation of her own generation encouraged her to make her first feature documentary film about young Italians who emigrated to different parts of the world, searching for happiness and self-realization. The film, entitled “Emergency Exit – Young Italians Abroad”, won numerous Awards at International festivals, such as Best Direction and Best Film. The rough-cut, which was among twenty film projects selected by the Italian Doc Screenings, was developed successfully with the help of crowdfunding, reaching BBC WORLD and The Guardian. The documentary was completed thanks to the American producer Beth Di Santo. In 2014 it was screened also at European Parliament in Bruxells, and in more than 100 venues in the world. Nowadays, ‘Emergency Exit’ has been distributed on Netflix, iTunes and Google Play. After winning the Principi Attivi Competition in 2013, Brunella founded, together with her team, an independent production house based in Apulia named Officinema Doc. In 2015, she won the Apulia Film Commission’s Regional Film Fund and subsequently directed and produced "Emergency Exit – Webseries", a web series based on the namesake film, consisting of five episodes. Her second documentary ‘Alla Salute’ presented at Biografilm Festival in competition, won the Lifetales Award for Best Film and the Audience Award 2018. Today she is working on her next documentary film, "Sea Sisters", selected at the Pitching of LisbonDocs and the Medimed 2016.