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Emanuele Palamara

Emanuele Palamara is a film director and screenwriter. Graduated in Performing Arts and Sciences at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of La Sapienza in Rome, he began gaining experience in the cinematographic field in 2009 as an assistant director. Important collaborations with Matteo Garrone, in his film Reality and with Stefano Sollima in the first season of Gomorra – La Serie. In 2011 he won the Cortolazio Award for Best Screenplay which allowed him to shoot his first short film entitled Papa, starring Remo Remotti. In 2015 he shot his second short film entitled La Smorfia which received excellent feedback at national and international festivals and was purchased by TV channels such as Mediaset, HBO Europe and Japan TV. In January 2016, Palamara shot his third short film entitled Uomo in mare. Starring Marco D’Amore, the short won the Special Corto D’Argento Award at the Nastri D’Argento 2017 and was purchased by Studio Universal. In 2017 Alessandro Siani entrusted Palamara with the direction and screenplay of the episode L’isola di Cioccolato of the film San Valentino Stories, which he created and produced by Run Film and Rai Cinema, the episode is set in the Nisida prison. In 2023, Palamara directed Chi spara per primo, a short film produced by his Bro Company with the contribution of the Campania Region and in collaboration with the Campania Region Film Commission, with which he won the 2024 Nastri D’Argento for best Comedy.