by Sherif Awad
Journalist and documentary filmmaker Alessandro Melazzini was born 1974 in Sondrio, Italy. After graduation in economics from the Università Luigi Bocconi di Milano, he received a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg. Since 1999, he lives and works in Munich, Germany. As German-Italian , he is member of the German Documentary Association (AG DOK) and the German Federation of Journalists (DJV). In 2003, he worked as a freelance culture correspondent, and in 2010 as a director and producer of documentary films with his production company Alpenway Media GmbH.
For his merits as a migrant entrepreneur the city of Munich has awarded him the PhönixPreis and the German Embassy in Italy presents him as a testimonial.
His directorial filmography includes MUNICH, ITALY. STORIES OF ARRIVALS IN GERMANY (2011), LA CICCIOLINA. GODMOTHER OF SCANDAL (2016) and THE LEGACY OF THE CISTERCIANS (2019).
In our cycle on Cinema After Corona both on https://www.sherifawad-filmcritic.com/ and https://www.meetingvenus.com/, we discuss with Alessandro Melazzini the status of his new works and the status of cinema in the aftermath of Corona. He announces the interview his new documentary on the rise of Italian disco that will include interviews with many Italian musicians and singers of the 1980s and 1990s including the Italian sensation Sabrina Salerno.
