Daniela Riccardi

Professional journalist and screenwriter; author of docufilm, ads and tv format.

She collaborates with the director Mimmo Calopresti being the screenwriter of “Immondezza. Beauty will save the world”, Calopresti’s road movie on the beauty and littering in southern Italy  from Vesuvius to Etna (special mention at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles).

Assistanty Director in Calopresti’s “La Fabbrica fantasma”, a docufilm on products’ counterfeiting filmed between Italy and Hungary, distributed by Corriere della Sera and broadcasted by Sky Atlantic.

Author and Director of “Living the Great. History of a outskirts’ Basaglia, a documentary filmed entirely in a mental health center, and of “Bill de Blasio. A mayor in town”, a documentary on the long elections’ night that crowned the democrat Bill de Blasio mayor of New York after twenty years of republican hegemony. Author and director of the TV format “At the edge of the legend: a journey through castles and mysteries in Italy” – with the participation, among others, of Eugenio Bennato – produced by Fabula Ventis Productions TV.

Awarded with the Appiano Seal for documentary movies with, among others, Giancarlo Giannini.