Federica Di Giacomo

Federica Di Giacomo graduated in anthropology from the University of Florence before studying creative documentary filmmaking in Barcelona. There she cooperated on scripts for films by Joaquín Jordà and Núrie Villazán (Monkeys Like Becky / Monos como Becky, 1999) and José Luis Guerín (Under Construction / En construcción, 2001).

She debuted in 2000 with the documentary Los colores de la trance, and since 2001 she's mainly worked in television. Her doc focusing on life in the underbelly of Matera, Italy, The Grotesque Side of Life (Il lato grottesco della vita, 2006), earned her the CIPPUTI and Avanti Awards at Torino and had plenty of festival exposure, as did her next picture Housing (2009).

Liberami is the filmmaker's third feature-length movie, earning her and co-writer Andrea Sanguigni the Solinas Award (Premio Solinas) in 2014 for the screenplay. In addition to making movies, she also teaches documentary filmmaking at schools in Milan and Rome.

MFF Karlovy Vary