Valerio Jalongo
His directorial debut came in 1983 with Juke box,[1] an anthology film directed as well by Carlo Carlei, Daniele Luchetti, Antonello Grimaldi, and others[1] casting Massimo Bonetti, Philippe Leroy, and Barbara De Rossi and screened at the Venice Film Festival.In 1988, Jalongo made DreamCity, a documentary film shot in Los Angeles which won the Vittorio De Sica Prize the same year.His first feature film was Spaghetti Slow (1997)[2] starring Brendan Gleeson and Ivano Marescotti,[3][4] shot in Dublin.[6] The film analyzes the cinema crisis of the seventies that caused the flight of Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti, and other big producers from Italy to United States and the related phenomena marking the gradual disappearance of Italian cinema from the international market.He then realised a documentary about art and science, The Sense of Beauty, made at CERN in Geneva, and presented at Nyon Film Festival, Visions du Réel in 2017, selected as one of the best 20 Europeans documentaries at Prix Europa 2018 in Berlin, at Visioni dal Mondo 2017 as opening title, and in other international festivals.