FEDERICO MICALI

Director, author, creative producer

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Federico Micali, Florentine director and screenwriter born in 1971, is the author of numerous films ranging from feature film to creative documentary, both with a wide distribution and numerous awards.

L’Universale is a 2016 film starring Francesco Turbanti, Matilda Lutz, Claudio Bigagli and Paolo Hendel.  It tells the story and growth of three friends at the turn of the 70s, in a very special context such as that of the Cinema Universale in Florence. The film was released in theaters on April 2016, obtaining an excellent response from both critics and audiences (second in media / Italy box office copy in the week of release in April 2016) and winning the award for best film at the Nice Moscow 2017 Festival.

Among the documentaries with a theatrical distribution: Genoa Without Answers (shot during the G8 in Genoa in 2001 and distributed in 35mm film), Firenze Città Aperta (about the European social forum in 2002), Nunca Mais (the film on the Prestige oil tanker disaster in Galicia) 99 Amaranto (about the working class city Livorno and its reflection in Cristiano Lucarelli’s football), Cinema Universale d’Essai. After the preview of the short film at the Venice Film Festival, L’Ultima Zingarata has become a documentary that tells the surreal staging of a new funeral for Mr. Perozzi ( a character from the movie Amici Miei)  and which boasts the participation of Mario Monicelli and Gastone Moschin.

In 2019 he wrote and directed Looking for Negroni docufilm produced by Art Film Kairos together with Rai Cinema, which tells the story of a barman and his research on the history of the Negroni cocktail and its eccentric creator, Count Camillo Negroni. The film, shot in Italy, the United States and Cuba and starring Claudio Bigagli, will be release in cinema in June 2021.

Between 2020 and 2021: I like Spiderman… so what? short film produced by DNART and winner of the Mibact Prize on gender stereotypes, and Firenze Sotto Vetro, a social film directed together with Pablo Benedetti that tells the story of 2020 between lockdowns and restarts, and made with video contributions sent by thousands of people. 

Over the years he experimented various forms of video expression, from videoclips (Modena City Ramblers) to video stories for newspapers such as Repubblica and Corriere.it, up to web series (Lettere Italiene and ComDominium). La Banda delle Ragazzine is a TV series project: the TV series is produced by DNArt and won the contributions of MIBACT 2020. It is taken from the series of book written by Paola Zannover (Premio strega Ragazzi 2028).