Rino Piccolo
Rino Piccolo (born 14 February) is an international film producer and film commissioner. He holds a doctoral degree in Business Economics from the University of Federico II in Naples and a theatre and arts diploma from Università popolare dello spettacolo.
From 1994 to 1996 he produced three short films, including La Promessa, which received a grant from the Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs for national cultural interest. In 1998 he helped found Campania Film Commission to support international productions, working on projects such as Star Wars: Episode I, Mission: Impossible III, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Sopranos and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
Piccolo was appointed Italian Film Commission’s cinema delegate to India in 2001 to present a new bilateral agreement and promote international opportunities. He also worked on documentary production in Italy, assisting BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel projects such as Pompeii, Oceans, Caravaggio and Naked Earth: Volcanoes.
In 2002 he founded the first Association of Italian Film Commissions and was elected vice-president twice; he also became director of the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) and was re-elected in 2004. He developed international educational programs, conducted seminars on film-induced economy and tourism, and organized film trade shows.
In 2007 he became General Director of the Latina Film Commission in Lazio, Italy, and in 2008 founded the Latina Film Fund to support national and international documentary filmmakers. He co-published the book Latina. Terra di Cinema in 2009. In 2010 he worked on the international production Maradona by Emir Kusturica and chaired commissions for Italian film festivals.
In 2012 he was chosen as a Film Tourism expert to speak at AFCI Cineposium in South Korea, and in 2013 he presented Lazio’s 15 million euro Audiovisual Fund to the Spanish film industry in Madrid. He has contributed to international projects such as The Borgias, Angels and Demons, Maradona by Kusturica, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Spectre, Zoolander 2 and 7 minuti.
In 2015 he published Terra di Cinema – Cinema Land and several essays on film commissions. In 2017 he launched an educational program in Lazio with master classes for film professionals and was invited as a guest speaker to the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome. Since 2006 he has served as President of the Latina Film Commission. In 2022 he produced Song of the Fly, directed by Michele Pagano, which won Best Screenplay at the Queens World Film Festival in New York.
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