Silvia Bellotti

Nascimento : , Rome, Italy

História

Born in Rome in 1982, Silvia Bellotti is a video journalist. She began her career in Palermo where she worked with Il Fatto Quotidiano.it and I Quaderni de L'Ora, a monthly publication founded by reporters from L’Ora, the historic anti-mafia newspaper. In 2012 she was recipient of the first Generazione Reporter prize – the competition for young journalists set up by Michele Santoro – for the video investigation "Trattativa? Niente sacciu" on the murky part played by the State in the massacres of '92-'93. In 2013 she was a finalist in the Morrione Award, part of the Ilaria Alpi Awards, with the video investigation “Che fine ha fatto la roba dei boss” (What happened to the bosses’ stuff) on the inefficient management of assets confiscated from the Mafia. She moved to Naples in 2014 to take part in the first edition of FilmaP - Atelier di Cinema del Reale overseen by Leonardo Di Costanzo. The two films that resulted were "Il foglio", a tragicomic documentary short on the Inland Revenue Agency, shown in competition at the Torino Film Festival 2015, and "Open to the Public," her first feature-length film documentary on the employees of the Public Housing Institute of Naples. This film took the Audience Award at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence 2017 for the "Italian Film” category.In 2017 she worked with the children of the Magarotto Special School for the Deaf to make a short film called "La scuola del sorriso” (The School of the Smile), based on the true story of one of the pupils there. The film won the Jury Grand Prix at the Festival Sourd Métrage di Nancy (France). (http://apertialpubblicoilfilm.parallelo41produzioni.com/en/the-crew.html)

Filmes

Open to the Public
Open to the Public
Writer
The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)
Open to the Public
Open to the Public
Cinematography
The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)
Open to the Public
Open to the Public
Director
The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)