DIRECTOR
OSCAR IARUSSI (Foggia, 1959), lives and works in Bari.
A professional journalist, essayist, literary and film critic, he served as editor-in-chief and editorial director of the daily newspaper “La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno,” after long coordinating its cultural pages. He currently contributes to “Avvenire,” “Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia,” and “Domani.” He is one of the voices of “Prima Pagina” on RAI Radio Tre.
Since 1997, he has served several times on the Expert Committee of the Venice Biennale’s International Film Festival. He has collaborated with various festivals, including the Montreal World Film Festival and the Edinburgh Italian Film Festival, and in 2013 he contributed to the drafting of the first candidacy dossier for Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019. He has created and curated several multidisciplinary reviews, including: “Mezzogiorno di cinema” for Progetto Italia – Telecom at the Petruzzelli Theatre reconstruction site (2006); “Frontiere – La prima volta,” editing the catalog for Edizioni Laterza (Bari 2011); “Tu non conosci il Sud,” held in various cities since 2014; and “Visioni e realtà Doc – Gli sguardi, le storie” for Presìdi del Libro (Bari 2021-2024).
He was president of the Apulia Film Commission Foundation; scientific consultant for MIAC, the Italian Audiovisual and Cinema Museum of the Istituto LUCE – Cinecittà; and a member of the Cinematography Commission of the Mibact. He is a member of the National Council of the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) and is the representative for the Puglia Group.
He taught Film History and American Film History for many years at the ‘Aldo Moro’ University of Bari and Journalism on the Master’s programme established by the same university and the Order of Journalists; Film, Theatre and Television Criticism, and Cinema and Mass Communications at the University of Foggia; and has held courses and seminars – amongst other events – at the LUISS Business School in Rome (Master’s in Film and Television Production Management) and at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Level II Master’s in Literary Translation).
His numerous books include: Lettera aperta. Sud, Nord e altre storie (Manni 2003), Psychoanalysis and Management. The Transformation (with David Gutmann, Karnac Books 2003, Routledge 2019), L’infanzia e il sogno. Il cinema di Fellini (Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo 2009), C’era una volta il futuro. L’Italia della Dolce Vita (il Mulino 2011), Ciak si Puglia, cinema di frontiera 1989-2012 (Laterza 2012), Visioni americane. Il cinema on the road da John Ford a Spike Lee (Adda 2012), Andare per i luoghi del cinema (il Mulino 2017 – RCS 2020), Amarcord Fellini – L’alfabeto di Federico (il Mulino 2020). He has also edited Viva l’Italia. Undici racconti per un paese da non dividere (Fandango Libri 2004) and Effetto Puglia. Guida cineturistica a una regione tutta da girare (Laterza 2008).
OSCAR IARUSSI (Foggia, 1959), lives and works in Bari.
A professional journalist, essayist, literary and film critic, he served as editor-in-chief and editorial director of the daily newspaper “La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno,” after long coordinating its cultural pages. He currently contributes to “Avvenire,” “Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia,” and “Domani.” He is one of the voices of “Prima Pagina” on RAI Radio Tre.
Since 1997, he has served several times on the Expert Committee of the Venice Biennale’s International Film Festival. He has collaborated with various festivals, including the Montreal World Film Festival and the Edinburgh Italian Film Festival, and in 2013 he contributed to the drafting of the first candidacy dossier for Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019. He has created and curated several multidisciplinary reviews, including: “Mezzogiorno di cinema” for Progetto Italia – Telecom at the Petruzzelli Theatre reconstruction site (2006); “Frontiere – La prima volta,” editing the catalog for Edizioni Laterza (Bari 2011); “Tu non conosci il Sud,” held in various cities since 2014; and “Visioni e realtà Doc – Gli sguardi, le storie” for Presìdi del Libro (Bari 2021-2024).
He was president of the Apulia Film Commission Foundation; scientific consultant for MIAC, the Italian Audiovisual and Cinema Museum of the Istituto LUCE – Cinecittà; and a member of the Cinematography Commission of the Mibact. He is a member of the National Council of the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) and is the representative for the Puglia Group.
He taught Film History and American Film History for many years at the ‘Aldo Moro’ University of Bari and Journalism on the Master’s programme established by the same university and the Order of Journalists; Film, Theatre and Television Criticism, and Cinema and Mass Communications at the University of Foggia; and has held courses and seminars – amongst other events – at the LUISS Business School in Rome (Master’s in Film and Television Production Management) and at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Level II Master’s in Literary Translation).
His numerous books include: Lettera aperta. Sud, Nord e altre storie (Manni 2003), Psychoanalysis and Management. The Transformation (with David Gutmann, Karnac Books 2003, Routledge 2019), L’infanzia e il sogno. Il cinema di Fellini (Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo 2009), C’era una volta il futuro. L’Italia della Dolce Vita (il Mulino 2011), Ciak si Puglia, cinema di frontiera 1989-2012 (Laterza 2012), Visioni americane. Il cinema on the road da John Ford a Spike Lee (Adda 2012), Andare per i luoghi del cinema (il Mulino 2017 – RCS 2020), Amarcord Fellini – L’alfabeto di Federico (il Mulino 2020). He has also edited Viva l’Italia. Undici racconti per un paese da non dividere (Fandango Libri 2004) and Effetto Puglia. Guida cineturistica a una regione tutta da girare (Laterza 2008).