Italy

Clio Sozzani is an anthropologist and a filmmaker. She has worked in Ethiopia and Senegal for International Development Cooperation Projects. For the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she managed a program, Behavioural Change Communication, directing spots and awareness-raising videos. She has been working as a film director for different production companies and non-profit organizations. Together with Claudia Palazzi, she wrote a film on women’s entrepreneurship, which won the funding of the Italian Film Commission; she also directed two short social documentaries that were selected in Leipzig, Milan, Rome, Venice Film Festivals. In addition, she has developed a web documentary for Slow Food International.

Filmography

In Benito’s Land. Predappio (2005)
Memories of Crespi d’Adda (2005)
Moto for Peace (2006)
Brick Making and Food Conservation in Kenya (2006)
Ma la Femmina… (2006)
Kenyan Acrobats (2007)
Toward a Better Life. The stories of Mantgebush and Ashenafi (2008)
Development Experience Association (2009)
CinemArena in Ethiopia (2010)
Come2Play in Ethiopia (2010)
CinemArena in Senegal (2010)
Jeans and Martò (2011)
Die Seele des Essens: Sauerkraut und Kimchi (2018)