Michele Aiello

Michele Aiello (1987) is documentary filmmaker and participatory video expert. He has a degree in International Relations, specializing in armed conflicts and marginalization of minorities. Since 2021, he is an expert trainer of the “Film Education Programme” of the Italian Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture. In the past, he worked also as freelance journalist

Among his works:
Io Resto, 2021 (My Place Is Here – documentary, 81’), director and producer. World Premiere at Visions Du Réel 2021, Best Film Award Biografilm Italia 2021
Un giorno la notte, 2020 (One Day the Night – documentary, 69’), director. Best Documentary at Award MoliseCinema 2021
Paese Nostro, 2017 (documentary, 120’), co-writer
Violent Borders, 2017 (reportage, 31’), journalist. Premiere at Human Rights Nights Festival 2018
FuoriClasse, 2016 (A School of their Own – documentary, 74’), co-writer. World Premiere at Pordenone Doc Festival 2017

My Place Is Here

LOGLINE A 30-days journey inside a hospital. A unique document on the Western World facing the unknown. A crew observes...

ONE DAY THE NIGHT

SYNOPSIS Sainey is a twenty-year-old Gambian who knows the harsh reality of his destiny: because of an irreversible illness, he...

Flying Roots

  SHORT SYNOPSIS A group of teenagers, a participatory video lab, three second-generation stories. Flying Roots is a collective self-narrative...

Cucinema – with Don Pasta

10 young filmmakers, in southern Venice lagoon, went into the kitchens of wonderful “ciozoti” (born in Chioggia) chefs and cooks....

REC – A Urban Game

A participatory video workshop open to imagination and interaction, which integrates two languages: the theatrical and the audiovisual. The Urban...