International co-productions, multi-language projects.
Alessandro got a BA in film directing from the University of Bologna, Italy. After graduating college, he worked directing commercials in France, Italy and Mexico for several years. He then moved to Los Angeles where he finally feels at home and where he got an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute Conservatory. His thesis short film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival VR 2020 and it was the first ever VR thesis film produced at AFI.
His screenplays have placed as finalists in several screenwriting competitions such as Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break, Emerging Screenwriters, among others. He was selected as one of the Inaugural Fellows of ``The Minority Report'', an industry-vetted list of the top scripts written by diverse students and won the Writers’ Room Ready Award with his pilot “NarcoBruja”. The award recognizes outstanding work by AFI Conservatory Screenwriting Fellows.
Alessandro is obsessed with technology, new media, crypto, NFTs, digital worlds, video games, electric mobility, music and culture, which often permeate his writing to create original characters and worlds that speak of global and current subjects that are frequently ignored.
He currently works as director of development at one of the most prestigious and prolific production companies in Mexico.