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| Born | 25 May 1953 (age 73) Turin, Italy |
| Occupation | Film critic |
Stefano "Steve" Della Casa (born 25 May 1953) is an Italian film critic, documentarist, essayist and festival curator.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Turin, Della Casa graduated in cinema history under Gianni Rondolino.[1] In 1974, he co-founded Turin's Movie Club, a major Italian film society, and in 1982, he co-founded the Festival Cinema Giovani, later known as Turin Film Festival.[1] He directed the festival from 1998 to 2002.[1][2] After serving as president of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte, he was appointed artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, a position he held from 2007 to 2013.[1] In 2022, Della Casa was appointed president of the Turin Festival for the second time, a role he held for two editions.[1][2][3] In 2024, he was named Conservatore of the Cineteca Nazionale.[3]
Della Casa has directed several documentary films; in 2016, he won a Nastro d'Argento for I Tarantiniani, and in 2017, he received a special Nastro d'Argento for Perchè sono un genio! Lorenza Mazzetti and Nessuno ci può giudicare.[4][5] He wrote numerous film essays, and worked as television and radio writer.[1][3] He is a professor of film history at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Della Casa's nick "Steve" is a reference to sword-and-sandal film star Steve Reeves.[6] He is a Torino FC supporter.[1]
Books
[edit]- Mario Monicelli (1986)
- Mario Mattoli (1990)
- Riccardo Freda (1999)
- Dario Argento, il brivido della critica cinematografica (2000)
- Officina torinese. Una passeggiata in cento anni di cinema (2000, with Lorenzo Ventavoli)
- Turin, berceau du cinéma italien (2001)
- Storia e storie del cinema popolare italiano (2001)
- Capitani coraggiosi. Produttori italiani 1945-1975 (2003)
- La buca di Maspero in Scrittori in curva (2009)
- Hollywood sul Tevere (2010)
- Il professor matusa e i suoi hippies, Cinema e musica in Italia (2011)
- Pop Film Art. Visual culture, moda e design nel cinema italiano anni '60 e '70 (2012, with Dario Edoardo Viganò)
- Sbatti Bellocchio in sesta pagina (2012, with Paolo Manera)
- Il grande libro di Ercole. Il cinema mitologico in Italia (2013, with Marco Giusti)
- Spendor (2014)
- Dino Risi. Pensieri, parole, immagini (2016)
- Acido Fenico, Graphic novel (2016, with Giancarlo De Cataldo and Luca Saviotti)
- L'Italia all'Oscar (2019, with Vincenzo Mollica)
- Menamose (2022)
- Argento, due o tre cose che sappiamo di lui (2023)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Stefano Della Casa è il nuovo direttore del Tff". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 12 January 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- 1 2 Vivarelli, Nick (23 November 2022). "Torino Film Festival Chief Steve Della Casa on Taking the Indie Italian Fest Out of the 'Arthouse Ghetto'". Variety. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- 1 2 3 Ibraghimova, Ecaterina (18 April 2024). "Steve Della Casa eletto Conservatore della Cineteca Nazionale". Sentieri Selvaggi (in Italian). Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- ↑ "Nastri d'argento ai documentari, vince Soldini con "Per altri occhi"". la Repubblica (in Italian). 31 January 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- ↑ "Nastri d'argento: i documentari finalisti". Cinecittà News (in Italian). 15 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- ↑ De Rose, Carmela (12 September 2024). "Steve della Casa ritira insieme a Nanni Moretti il Leone D'Oro per il miglior restuaro del film "Ecce bombo"". Il Messaggero (in Italian). Retrieved 6 February 2026.
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