Lucio Besana
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Lucio Besana

ByElena

Lucio Besana, (Merate 7/12/1982) Italian screenwriter

He is the author of films and literary works in the genres of Fantastic, Horror, and Weird.

He graduated in Directing from the Luchino Visconti Film School in 2009. His short film screenplays were selected in 2011 and 2012 to participate in the European Short Pitch in France, Luxembourg, and Slovenia.

In 2012, he won the Solinas Award – Stories for Cinema with the supernatural drama Midnight News (Midnight Voices), ex aequo with Cosimo Gomez for Good and Evil.

He co-wrote the feature film The Nest (Il nido) with Margherita Ferri and Roberto De Feo. Released in the summer of 2019, the film premiered at the Locarno Festival and was selected for several festivals, including Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. It was subsequently distributed in France, Spain, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Russia, Japan, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Taiwan, and Brazil. The film has also been optioned for an English-language remake by Gotham Group.

Together with Milo Tissone, Paolo Strippoli, Roberto De Feo, and David Bellini, he co-wrote A Classic Horror Story, distributed by Netflix in 190 countries in the summer of 2021. It premiered for the press at the Taormina Film Fest, where it won the Best Directing Award. The film was one of the most-watched globally on Netflix during its first week of release and was listed by the New York Times as one of the top five films to stream in July 2021.

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