Stefania Casini

Known for ActingBorn 1948-09-04 (age 77)Villa di Chiavenna, Italy

After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentaries and reportages for RAI and MEDIASET. She focuses her attention on contemporary topics concerning women and young people. She has made many hard-hitting series including: "Islam: stories of women"; "Latin America: stories of women"; "To be 20 years old in..." (broadcast in ten European Countries 2004-2005); "So close so far :portraits in the suburbs". "Schiaffo alla mafia"(A blow to the Mafia) Between 2000-2002 , Stefania was the Artistic Director of Siena's Film Festival "Terra di Siena". In 2010 she was Managing Director of DGTV IESTV. Currently, Stefania writes and directs programs, reportages and documentaries for RAI, and for satellite channels: RAI Sat Cinema World, Gambero Rosso Channel, and Sky. She also works as a journalist, contributing to several popular women's magazines.Read more

Movies & web series

Fun Jump

Cuore in gola

For Love One Dies

Vincere per vincere

Polsi sottili

Pooh - Un attimo ancora

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax

Operazione rosmarino

Scheggia di Vento

Nessuno deve sapere

You, Me & Tuscany

1900

Lontano da dove

Sanremo Music Festival

Suspiria

Funeral: I Don't Want You

Nessuno siamo perfetti

Ladies of Italian Horror

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

Mora

Suspiria 25th Anniversary

Un Paradiso di Bugie

A Way of Being a Woman

Nessuno deve sapere

The Belly of an Architect

Cinque mondi

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

Geometra Prinetti, selvaggiamente Osvaldo

Trevico-Torino (viaggio nel Fiat-Nam)

Bota

Good Vibes

Bad

Story of a Night

The Goldsmith

Dafne

The Bloodstained Shadow

Bye Bye Monkey

Enchantment

Cocktail Molotov

Maicol Jecson

Come ti rapisco il pupo

The Climber

Blood for Dracula

Emergency Squad

A Pocketful of Chestnuts

The Cousin

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

Luna di miele in tre