Simone Scafidi

In 2004 he directed his first feature film Gli arcangeli, starring Branciaroli, Andrea de Onestis and Francesca Inaudi. The film, considered by critics to be one of the toughest and most original debuts of the 2000s, will only be released in 2008. In the same year, he directed the documentary biopic Appunti per la distruzione, inspired by the life of the mysterious writer Dante Virgili. In 2013, his third feature film, the horror film La festa, was released on some platforms, centered on the disappearance of some boys gathered in a country house and on what really happened to them. Follows, in 2014, Eva Braun, inspired by some famous political-sexual scandals that have shocked Italy. The film is distributed in over 20 countries. In 2015 comes the moment of Zanetti Story, a documentary co-directed with Carlo A. Sigon, on the life of the Inter captain, Javier Zanetti. With archival images and testimonials, the life of the footballer is told starting from his childhood in Buenos Aires up to the historic victory of the Treble in 2010. The film reaches first place in the Italian box office, with around 500 thousand euros in receipts in a single day of programming, and then becomes one of the best-selling Italian films on home video in the same year. In 2019, his sixth film, Fulci For Fake, was presented in the official selection of the Venice Film Festival, the first biopic dedicated to the figure of Lucio Fulci.