Giuseppe Schillaci Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Giuseppe Schillaci
Directing
Biography
Giuseppe Schillaci was born in Sicily/ Catania where he started acting thanks to Manuela Metri and Fioretta Mari. In Italy he played in many plays , between the more important he played in "La Scapricciata" with Fioretta Mari and directed by Manuela Metri. Also he starred in the TV series Il Commissario Montalbano directed by Alberto Sironi where he played Rosario Lauricella and in the TV series Squadra Antimafia where He played Remo Pennino in two episode. In 2010 Mrs Anna Strasberg selected him at a seminar she hosted in Rome and he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York and West Hollywood later where he lived for 8 years. In 2013 In Los Angeles He played Tom Collins in RENT the musical directed by Troy Rintala. Giuseppe played MR. Jacob Engstrand in the play "Ghosts" directed by Neno Pervan. Also He starred the main character "Luigi" in the short movie "The Dilemma" directed by Luca Spensieri. Giuseppe also starred in the Web Kia Commercial as "The Man with the pink scarf" directed by Alejandro Trevino, and He played Rafael in the short film Widows directed by Ian Fisher. As a director Giuseppe did 2 short film , one in Italy "Corri " finalist in Rome at the Internation Film Festival Tulipani di seta nera, and in Los Angeles He has written and directed the short film "With Out Words".. In 2014 He has been the lead character in the short Ciao Marcello playing Marcello and in the feature film The Italian playing the main character Carlo. Was nominated as a best actor in New York Independent film festival. in 2016 RAI calls him back to Italy to play Salvatore Niscemi in the TV Serial Il commissario Montalbano and to play Loris Misilimeri in the Tv Serial "Maltese il romanzo del commissario". In 2017/2018 Giuseppe is Sciaverio Pipitone on the TV movie "La Mossa Del Cavallo". In 2019 He Starred in The Name of The Rose and in the movie "Il mio corpo vi seppellirà " where He plays the character Rosario and Directed by Giovanni La Parola. In 2019 will bee out the movie Persian Lessons where He played Marco an Italian Jew, the film is directed by Vadim Perleman.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Big Nick is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world's largest diamond exchange.
La mossa del cavallo
Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
My Body Will Bury You
1860, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. While Garibaldi's troops are invading this lawless territory, four female bandits nicknamed the "Drudes" are looking for their own personal revenge.
Persian Lessons
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
The Map That Leads to You
Heather is a young woman traveling Europe with friends before starting her perfectly planned life. A chance meeting with Jack sparks an unexpected romance that leads to deep emotional discovery. As secrets and life choices test their bond, her path changes forever.
Production
Palermo Shooting
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata
Antoine D'Agata, Magnum photographer since 2004, is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting himself to depicting desolated landscapes and borderline realities, D'Agata focuses his art on his intimate human relations. His latest work focuses on body and flesh, in a narrow room. This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice of living on the edge and experiencing sex with extreme vitality. It is an apocalyptic and sublime journey, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Jack Kerouac to Antonin Artaud, from Francis Bacon to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Big Forest
Sergione, a fifty-year-old tattoo artist weighing 260 kg, has lived all his life in the working-class Palermo district of Bosco Grande. He was one of the city’s legendary punks, rebelling against the mafia culture of the 1980s. Thirty years later, he’s still sitting outside his mother’s house, doing drugs and partying with his street friends. Every time Giuseppe Schillaci returns to his hometown, he goes and listen to his tragicomic anecdotes and longings for escape. As the seasons go by, he watches Sergio deteriorate. In mortal danger, Sergio goes to a specialized center for super-obese people, from which he flees a month later. Back in Bosco Grande, true to his punk mantra: “Live fast, die young,” he once again gets bogged down in the morbid spiral of his addictions.
The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata
Antoine D'Agata, Magnum photographer since 2004, is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. After devoting himself to depicting desolated landscapes and borderline realities, D'Agata focuses his art on his intimate human relations. His latest work focuses on body and flesh, in a narrow room. This film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choice of living on the edge and experiencing sex with extreme vitality. It is an apocalyptic and sublime journey, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Jack Kerouac to Antonin Artaud, from Francis Bacon to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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